Collage with me! Two surrealist collages (one was a HUGE struggle)

Hi there! I'm Rosie and this week I spent a long time struggling with a piece that wasn't quite working. I stepped away and came back fresh to tackle a new surreal collage and LOVE how it turned out!
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Creating a handmade custom DIY surreal art collage is easy! I share my tips and techniques on how I create my analog collages as I cut out pictures and illustrations out by hand with a small pair of scissors and a craft knife. Finding inspiration from old books is one of the most fun steps to this process. These can come from used books, encyclopedias, magazines, vintage postcards, or anything else you can find lying around your house. I find most of my books and magazines from thrift stores, antique stores, flea markets, Craigslist, or even on the side of the road! Watch as I arrange my elements and try different ideas as I talk through my process to create my final design.
Collages made out of paper have a custom made feel that you can't get from a digital collage made in Photoshop. And, there is an added challenge of only being able to use materials that you have access to!
Want to try creating your own? Just grab a magazine, scissors, and a glue stick!
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[@sandraclarke4682]

Omg Rosie, you have the patience of Job to cut out all these tiny pieces. Your ideas are great. Love to watch how you put every thing together. Love the cabbage collage!!

[@margaretschmidt7451]

Your imagination just inspires me to look at every magazine in a new light! Love your creativity.

[@eastofhoney]

Love this! So many possibilities with every image :)

[@scottworsley20]

The development of the fisherman is a great move toward a more cohesive expression of the beautiful shark and fish vignettes that really speak to the heart of the writers' block.

[@nanetten6238]

The cabbage collage is really hilarious! Just wondering - what is the meaning of "east of honey"?

[@eastofhoney]

Great question! There really isn't any special meaning to it. Just liked how it sounded and thought it was fun and unique :) And honey is delicious!

[@sharonstratis2846]

That's the silliest collage I've seen yet--why is he fishing for a cabbage in a huge cabbage patch?! LOL love it!

[@evelynhearnsberger660]

I love Thursdays🥰

[@marusnak1113]

Hey - you get to be the Yellow Rose of Texas! Glad you got to see some of our beautiful state . . .and our steers.

[@scottworsley20]

One of the most memorable of conversations.

[@allthumbs3792]

So clever! LOVE your artistic humor1

[@MrsBednar]

The cabbage-fisherman is pure genius.

[@SongbirdCollageArts]

Hey Rosie! I really like the first collage with the cactus antlers. Sometimes we just wing it and it comes out looking a bit wacky--in the best way! Thanks for sharing your process and reminding us all that there are no mistakes in collage. There's always the next project :)

[@suzyallen1726]

Hey songbird I've watched many of your videos and have enjoyed them very much.

[@SongbirdCollageArts]

@@suzyallen1726 I appreciate that, Suzy!

[@eastofhoney]

Yes! Love this. No mistakes in art and never stop creating :)

[@scottworsley20]

snow, sunlight, rainbows

[@annecanright4890]

It's so funny because it looks like the steer went to the costume shop and got some cactus to disguise himself so the fact that the branches don't quite fit totally goes along with every experience I've had with how costumes fit......

[@vetechgrl2000]

You did Texas proud today! Loved these!

[@scottworsley20]

I dig the way your hands play that harb, or violin.

[@LemonCrush1078]

When you put the 'hat' on the steer, I literally laughed out loud.

[@marionmathews9852]

Brilliant collage today! I love the field of cabbages. Stunning photography in that book……very inspirational.

[@suzyallen1726]

Love me some rosie. I love both collages very fun. Love the way your mind works and you tell a story with very few images. I think its unanimous that we all love both. He's supposed to be hiding. I just did a very difficult collage today in regards to global warming. I have a polar bear paddling an iceberg away. The landscape I made barren and full of hot weather animals. It came out cool but a lot of pieces.

[@Ssutube1]

I love how you ventured out to try a larger random collage.. I am going to give it a try. I like you I use a background and put 2 or 3 images on it Keeping it simple but Tied to gather Make it a quirky. Keep up the good work

[@Poohtle]

I love your ideas. You make me look at things differently

[@scottworsley20]

fixed it I love that fisherman pic. the cabbage field is awesome

[@lesliet.2583]

So grateful for your fun sense of humor and wild imagination, Rosie. You inspired me to try my hand at my first “surreal” collage today-not a masterpiece, but I had fun doing it 😊 Thanks!

[@SongbirdCollageArts]

Having fun is definitely the best part of collage :)

[@geminiwoman5550]

I LOVE YOUR COLLAGE! Going to start because of your videos. Thank you!!! Blessings Always!

[@CosmicWater]

Wohoo! First! I just thought: Oh, I would love to watch Rosies new Video and tadaaa! I Love It!

[@LinauLee]

Yay

[@NedaDraws]

So fun! Lovely work! 😊🥰

[@balloonunicorn7503]

I just binged all your videos. I love them

[@helengibson8196]

Great collage ideas. I think the image with the steer was great! I hope you do finish it

[@troyblueearth7450]

I love your brain lol your just so fun

[@carolyn6689]

Hello,I've been diving into collaging now for a few days and came across your channel.😍👋🏻 Love your style and esp how you cut out slits for the images to slide into and piecing them together.The bull was really cool ...When you said you didn't know what to add to the cactus horns ,I was thinking a cactus flower or something to give it some added pizazz.🌺I enjoyed watching this video.❤️👍🏻

[@eastofhoney]

Yes! Integrating the elements in the piece is such an important part to making your collage look real. Love that cactus flower idea!

[@sandraacquart4377]

I’m from Texas! Awesome layout. Loved it!

[@scottworsley20]

the same thing we do everyday. glue, glue,, glue!

[@skullingtonfly]

Please revisit’cactus horns’. It will be cool. Really like ‘catching cabbages’ 👍🏼

[@carolheinze6901]

Love your creativity!❤️🦋🥬

[@pjzuehlke55]

So great! I love your finished cabbage fishernan.. cabbagerman? Hmm I'm sure you'll eventually finish that awesome steer and it will be fantastic! TFS! 😍

[@carolheinze6901]

Love your creatively !❤️🥬🦋

[@pammy2cats]

hello! new subbie here! loved watching you do the collage of the fisherman! cant wait to discover more wacky/genius collages! x x x luv and hugs Pammie x x x

[@PhoebesWorldProductions]

Glad you're ok. hope the cut will heal well and fast. I'm glad your 2nd pair of cutter bee scissors is working for you. =) I love the collage you finished.... and the one you got stuck on, I liked, too. =)

[@trudyveldhoen1022]

I just love your work it is so creative. Keep going you make my day.

[@Marie-F-Corsica]

J’adore vos collages et votre imagination 🤗🥰 Marie de France

[@joeharris3470]

Love your talent and eye! So inspiring!!

[@maramakesjournals2319]

So excellent! I love this one!

[@scottworsley20]

That's a heck of a drawl.

[@kimberlybajorek1900]

Fun fabulous collages!!!

[@scottworsley20]

Thank you for an awesome set. really looko forwad to the after breakfast show

[@9liveslisa]

Really enjoying your collages!

[@eastofhoney]

Thank you!!

[@scottworsley20]

I like burgers. I think food always meshes with the cactus. It's not necessarily popular, but in the Midwest, quite popular

[@scottworsley20]

simon and garfunkel are cool fish stories.

[@anamarques9446]

Love it!

[@juliecranford534]

Loved seeing Texas represented today! The longhorn is the mascot of the University of Texas which happens to be the biggest rival of my college-Texas A&M University. So I had so much fun seeing him look a little silly today. Haha! Look forward to Thursdays each week. You’re the best!❤️

[@papabear2515]

Great, fun creations as always! As a retired children’s librarian, I tend to “think in titles” …and this one came to me as I watched your video today (in case you ever decide to author your own collage book): “Cabbage Fishing in Texas and Other Collage Adventures with Rosie.” I know would buy that book! When you referenced the stalactites today, it reminded me of your earlier video where you said you couldn’t remember which (stalactites or stalagmites) are located where. I will share the trick my 3rd grade teacher shared with our class (50+ years ago!) to help,you remember: StalagTITES are hanging in TIGHT so they don’t fall FROM the ceiling. StalagMITES are on the ground hoping they MIGHT grow enough to reach the ceiling someday. There you go! As always, thanks for sharing your talents! Kathleen, Idaho

[@eastofhoney]

Love this!! Thanks for sharing :)

[@troyblueearth7450]

Typically whenever I have lines were really small branches that I want to Merge into what’s been added I’ll just use a fine tipped pen

[@scottworsley20]

I like the bull in front, with a cactus hat. hahaha

[@scottworsley20]

Let's go fishing this summer!

[@scottworsley20]

the ground cacti looked interesting. i am partial to your choice.

[@scottworsley20]

round as in under the ridge

[@scottworsley20]

i always get confused wen the background gets too complicated.

[@russanncorby3782]

I also have a problem with my cutterbee scissors. The first pair that I bought years ago has black blades …. They work awesome 👏🏼. But my new pair with the silver blades are not good at all . Extremely disappointed with this company because they obviously have no quality control with this product.

[@sallysawin2138]

LOVE your creativity! Can you tell me the brand of your scissors?

[@scottworsley20]

Bull behind cactus, oh no?? double trouble!

[@AliceGoesNomad]

💖

[@scottworsley20]

You are an online wizard.

[@scottworsley20]

soft petal, light foot, prickly as a Western

[@iracemadefatimadias9301]

❤

[@scottworsley20]

I have run, i have crwaled, i have scaled these city walls, just to get to the grocery store!

[@pina_collado]

MY CABBAGES

[@scottworsley20]

Trrifecta! 100 down, 4.0 GPA

[@bettelovelace4456]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💜

[@scottworsley20]

The most interesting idea in non-medical science is the development of astronomy and meteorology that relates Norcal to SoCal to Arizona to New 'Mexico' to Texas. Great joke about Western Law.

[@scottworsley20]

Might as well put a sunrise under the bottom. it would be cool like an untamed beast stomping over the heavens

[@scottworsley20]

Top of the mountain , really big line, gave up in time witha path to the west

[@scottworsley20]

Did you hear the story about the migrating swimming pools that stopped their march at Rio Grande.

[@scottworsley20]

I just lost my secret garden... maybe I'll ride out On the Sunset

[@scottworsley20]

😍😘

[@scottworsley20]

Speaking of LA, what's up with all the urban myths about the Evil Mothership living in the desert, living far from the city.

[@afrocubanita1969]

Band-aid? What happened!?

[@scottworsley20]

Check, Check; BREAKER BREAKER

[@scottworsley20]

Over and OUT

[@scottworsley20]

can't get the menu down

[@scottworsley20]

Ask and yea shall recieve - feed a plant for a season of fishing food for a love

[@scottworsley20]

Somewhere West of Texas, honey

[@scottworsley20]

Where's the sunshine, President Bush?

[@scottworsley20]

🩱👢🎸

[@scottworsley20]

submersion

[@scottworsley20]

Can I go over my comments, and edit them?

[@scottworsley20]

get on it today.

[@scottworsley20]

far out, would be the right sentence. but birds are weird

[@scottworsley20]

like a cloacked ship

[@scottworsley20]

Because the men are walking on the moon which is now irrefutably not green, not cheese, not a shiny dime floating in a cold blue, the way I'd thought, the road shack people don't notice we are a black family not from there, the way it mostly goes.

[@Hedgehogsinthemist123]

Love it!