Collage...cards?

From the January lesson from Lynn Whipple for Year of the Spark – select a “hero” image and combine it with other design elements to create cards.

Oy, I have a suspicion that I may not have done the specific assignment as I was not thinking “card” or event e.g. birthday.  I did create these, though:

"Life is a Twirl"

elements: "flower girl" image, my hand lettering - colored and cut out, monoprint I liked but had not taken to completion

"dispersal of the keys"

elements: a "Pulcinella" image, metal keys, torn pieces from my slush pile, gold paint pen, black paper

 The process was thought-provoking and enjoyable :-)

Repetitive Variation or 'Just the scarf part, please'.

I carved a rubber stamp for our holiday cards last week. Off and on I have been sampling patterned papers to use for paper-piecing just the scarf part of the image but nothing really worked.
So-o-o, I decided to create my own.

Sharpie red and green colors say "holiday" to me.

I like this kind of thing; it is what I think of as repetitive variation and I don't find it to be boring. I go into a kind of zone and before I know it, voila, done!