Embroidered Collage

I have been participating in the artistic deco community since January. At the time I wanted to experiment with art on a scale slightly larger than the atcs I had been enjoying. Currently, I enjoy having a few mini challenges every month, keeping me from focusing too narrowly on my current projects

Decos are small, hand-bound booklets of a few pages, usually in size between 2"x3" and 5"x7". You create the original blank booklet and then mail it off, to be filled in by others, while you decorate pages in their decos. I belong to Destiny Art Decos where all themes are done in a round robin style, instead of the more typical style of randomly and organically swapping. Fewer mail art surprises, but far more likelihood you'll receive you deco back full someday.

I've posted a few of my favorite decos or pages below in thumbnail form and added a section to my gallery which contains these and more examples of my work in this form. I've been very conventional in my deco construction so far, but there are others who have made decos that fold out from a central point, or are cards in a box, or have plastic pages, or are shaped like objects, or have unique closures, and other such interesting permutations.

Mermaid