Welcome to Michael's Creative Tuesdays! For the 'Easter Egg' theme, I made a greeting card collage (5 1/2" x 4 1/4"). I used a black patterned washi tape as a background. Then I cut the eggs from pink patterned duct tape. I happened to have these tape supplies on hand.
If you look closely, you might see 'shadows' beneath the eggs. In my initial version, I had drawn my egg design onto the plain cardstock and coloured it with watercolour pencils, including the shadows of the eggs. It didn't seem to work, so I decided to cover the page with the washi tape background and start anew. Then I noticed the original design still showed through, including the egg 'shadows'. It seems washi tape is somewhat transparent. So I traced parchment paper stencils from the original egg design and used them to make my pink patterned eggs which I then stuck on top of the original egg sketches. And now it all works, I think.
So I ended up stepping out of my comfort zone with this piece, who knew that would happen? I don't normally do collages but I hate giving up on a piece. And stepping out of one's comfort zone can be a part of what Creative Tuesdays is all about, right Michael?
