Gift idea – Crop monotype prints & collage

If you are anything like me then you have piles of prints with potential. Here’s an idea for small gifts for the holidays:

• Gather a stack of prints that you are willing to crop
• Choose a collage substrate. It could be small panels, wooden blocks, heavy paper stock, foam core….
• Make a cropping window the same size as your substrate (See upper left corner of picture above)
• Hover over your prints with the cropping window to find a pleasing composition
• Mark and cut down the print
• Glue, tape or collage the print to the substrate
• Enhance as desired, writing, stamping, collage
• Sign and give as gift!

Crop Monotypes and Make gifts!

These tiny treasures are great little gifts for friends and family. They can have a little bit of your unique self in a corner of their home or work. They can be little reminders or bits of inspiration.

This is one way that I use prints that were less than perfect or were just warm up or clean up papers.