Crafty Green Poet

 I had a flurry of making collages over the winter break. Here are some of my favourites, all made with vintage papers and the occasional ex...

  Subtitled Mrs Delany begins her life's work at 72 , this is the biography of Mary Delaney who lived a very creative life but only d...

Yesterday I went to the excellent Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art 2 (you can read my review of ...

If you're at all interested in collage, Cut and Paste is a wonderful exhibition to see and it won't be touring so you need to catch...

Green becomes concrete for wheels to glide over quicker. Inexorable as rainfall landscape flies past, transmutes into shopping malls...

In the UK, Mothers Day is just a week on Sunday! Here's the card I made for my Mum, using only scrap card and paper.

I made these autumnal bookmarks and notelet from office waste, leaves found in a book and scraps torn from a Japanese poetry magazine. You ...

flowers painted on my wellington boots - insects hover.

22 March is Mother's Day here in the UK. Here is the card I've made for my Mum (who definitely doesn't read my blog!). It's...

This is the Valentine's Day card I've made for Crafty Green Boyfriend. I was going to wait before posting it but as it fits in with...

This is made from an extract of a page of Prakalpana Literature , I was once asked to review (thanks to Gerald for reminding me of the jou...

I made this collage from an old Japanese postcard, a scrap taken from a Japanese poetry journal and a photo of my childhood Japanese penpal...

I often make little collages out of scrap materials and put them inside books that I give away to second hand shops or via Bookcrossing . Th...

I mentioned a while ago that I had found the perfect book to alter (because there are missing pages and pages repeated) and I've now at ...

Just a small selection of my latest poetry cards, made from 100% reused materials including out of date office documents, magazines and car...

This is a framed collage for the bathroom. I bought several second-hand frames and painted them with poster paints (there's a bit of a d...

A collage of old magazine images and reused wrapping paper to illustrate a haiku. The haiku is one of those I posted for One Deep Breath ear...

There's the silence of peaceful contemplation, the silence of a quiet area of natural beauty, the silence of losing yourself in a good b...

sunlight glows through leaves to dapple the woodland floor - seedlings emerge. Foilage for Inspire Me Thursday . collage materials 100% recl...

Inspire Me Thursday this week challenged us to a) create a piece of art for the home and b) to create a piece of artwork on the theme of ho...