Serendipity!

With plans for my new collage session starting a week from Wednesday, and thinking about doing a series, I decided to make "Serendipity Squares" today. This is a good way to use up all the little scraps of paper that I continue to save. I began by making piles of little pieces according to color and theme.

I glued the scraps down on cardstock, covering it completely.

Then I used my big postcard rubber stamp to stamp all over the entire surface to help tie all the different pieces of paper together.

Then I filled in some empty spots by stamping and embossing with a smaller stamp.

Some in gold...

using different smaller stamps...

and some embossed in black...

until I felt I had enough of the papers covered for interest.

When I felt the papers were completed, it was time to cut them up.

I cut them into 1" and 1-1/2" squares. They are very attractive little collages all by themselves.

Later, when putting together my collage series, I will choose some of these squares that relate to one another to tie my series together. And they were fun to do!