Expressive Art Ideas
To Use With
SoulCollage

• Allow your SoulCollage® work to spill over into an art journal. Expressive art is total self-expression! You can use a color copy machine to reduce the size of a card. Make this the base of a page in your art journal. Use crayons, chalks, colored pencils, watercolors…anything goes! Express how the card makes you feel by using different colors, shapes, symbols, and movements.
• Make a color copy of a SoulCollage® card and use it as the focal point in a multi-media collage. I have done this many times in my art journal, but you could create a wonderful framed piece of art like this as well.
• Transfer a SoulCollage® card image to cloth. This could be a t-shirt or jacket that you could wear, or a piece of fabric that you then incorporate into a collage, your art journal, or a quilt. Remember, expressive art is total self-expression!
• Use a variety of handmade papers to create a background for your next SoulCollage® card.
• Use acrylic paints or watercolor paints directly on a piece of mat board to create a background for your next SoulCollage® card.
• Flip through some rubber stamp catalogs or browse some websites to find some images that really speak to you. Purchase a few stamps (or better yet, borrow a friend’s!) and experiment with different sizes and colors of ink until you find the best way to incorporate it into a SoulCollage® card. Remember, expressive art is total self-expression!
• Respond to one of your cards by creating a clay sculpture that expresses your feelings about it. You can use Play Dough, Sculpey, or any number of air-dry clays that are available in art and craft supply stores. Click here to purchase all of your expressive art supplies.

• Create an altered book using some of your SoulCollage® images. Use a life's journey theme that you've discovered in your deck (trust, body image, inner children, various animals...etc). Use reduced-size color copies of your cards as central elements on the pages. Or create an altered book focused on one of the four suits. You could make an altered book to honor your Companions, or one filled with Council members. Or look at themes within your Committee members only. To see some cool samples of altered book pages, click here.

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