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It's hard to pick a favorite of the two. But one of my favorite places is the lower right corner of the second one: the yellow and pink shading over the list and the old advertisement, and the photo of the dog popping out over it.
Below you can see how they looked before I framed them. The collages are mounted onto quarter-inch plywood covered in pecan, which is what makes the stripes. We treated the wood with tung oil before mounting the collages.
I was inspired by a flower I saw in a piece of fabric I'd used in another project, and to make the piece a little less busy and more focused, I used the flower as a centerpiece. It helps bring all the colors of the various components of the collage together. Components include an interior paint sample card, picture and article cut-outs from a catalog and a magazine, two photos Ashley herself took, buttons, paper flowers, a doily, pattern paper, butterfly ribbon, felt flowers, a page from a dictionary, and some quotes that seem to fit Ash's personality.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxZkc12YwHHO6MalOGY9Kin8QupCbEtljHAAsV_99EiKkwfRw7B34GUdcrdZdG0BT9vxBMsNpn3HYL8o80fwofgrH1ohWFCzo9QXqjfQN_ow2mR7GWQ-NlBnStzlF6zCMiZ5MvcM4kIDpb/s320/In+Ash%27s+house+1.JPG)
You guessed it! Here are photos of the collage in her house!
And to give it a little scale, the final product with the artist. :)