Thanks so much to EVERYONE that entered to win this gorgeous book… if I didn’t draw your name, you can always buy a copy of this beauty right here. BUT, if your name is Frances Soosman, there’s a copy coming to you! More giveaways coming soon xo
Oh my word! This book is AMAZING!!! I talked to New York based artist Andrea D’Aquino on my podcast earlier this year when she was still working on “Once Upon A Piece of Paper”. Well, it’s officially out in the world and it is SO GOOD. Brilliant words of wisdom, tips and tricks for making, and actual step-by-step demos. Oh, and there’s more… a second book filled with paper for you to USE for your own collages. Seriously. So good.
Hm, and as luck would have it, I have one to give away to one of you! Leave a comment below and I’ll draw one name on Monday October 10th. Good luck! {ps. Anyone can enter! Thanks to Quarto Publishing for making this happen xo}
What a fantastic book! It would be great resource for my school.
This book looks amazing! So inspiring and creative – I’d love to win a copy!
Beautiful book, I’d love to have one!
Seems so easy to do, but it only “seems”…
I’ve had my eye on this book…I’d love to own it!
Will be inspiration to start being creative
Looks so good! Throwing my hat into the ring…
I love it!
Love this! I’ve been thinking about trying my hand at collage making lately. This would definitely give me the extra push to start. 🙂
That fish! What a good looking book!
Fabulous!
Love the idea of this book, so interesting to teach this to people.
I remember in school, many many years ago we has a photography teacher give collage as a project to do on top of our photographs.
I also remember many of the students not taking it very seriously and gluing random images on top of on another.
A book like this with a break down and explanation is very helpful for situations like that.
Looks super helpful and fun! Lots of good ideas to get the juices flowing. Would love to own it!!
My scissor hand is itching to try the ideas in this book!
oh my. love love love (to paraphrase an artist I pay attention to)
I’ve recently been wanting to start collage work! This book looks so amazing and inspiring!
What a fun book! I would love to have one to share with my daughters.
I have a bookshelf crammed with all sorts of papers, just waiting to get started :). Thanks for the draw, and hoping the lucky winner will be me :). Best wishes for the weekend everyone!
Looks so good!
Looks great! I’d love to learn more about collage, I’ve never used it in my work!
Yes, PLEASE!! I’m in need of some inspiration!
Looks amazing, would love to own this!
This book would be a wonderful teaching resource.
A book about working with paper full of colorful inspiration? Take my money!
Oh my! This looks amazing! I would love to win this! It would look so great sitting on my table with your Collage book and Creative Block!
What a great looking book! I am in SO much need of inspiration right now, and collages have been on my mind lately! This is kismet!
Great post
Love this!
I would love this!! Thanks for the chance!
This looks marvelous!! Would love to have this to use!!
This book looks like an absolute beauty. Would love to own a copy!
Fingers crossed!
As an amateur collage artist I would love the tips and tricks from this book!
This looks beautiful. So many books, so little time!
this book is like going into the candystore…..mmmmmmm big smile on your face, looking around, want to have it ALL !
Beautiful book! Your IG feed is so inspiring! I also follow Andrea on Instagram, lovely accounts, both of you!
Incredible work!
This book looks amazing!!! I’ve been wanting to collage but it’s so intimidating. Thanks for the chance 🙂
I foresee a collage party in my future!!
Hey hey! The book looks amazing, would love to have this as a reference for a project I’m working on!
Collage is hard but this little primer looks like it will help simplify the process.
Collage is hard but this little primer looks like it can simplify the process.
I would love to win this book!!
Yes please!! I need a collage pick me up! x
This book looks so inspiring…nothing better to create a new series of collages!
Looks like so much fun!!! I have wanted to learn more about collage for a long time!
This looks so great!!! I just came home from teaching my mixed media class some collage techniques and would love this for my own personal and teaching use!!! Such beauty!
I’ve been clipping magazines and filing them by category in a binder haha. This book will understand me. Such a great way to see another perspective of collage and art-making in general!
Love your podcast as well
This looks great!
Ooh, looks so inspiring! Thank you for hosting a giveaway!
Pick me!
Looks like a fun book
Looks awesome! Just what I’m starting to work on
Very cool! I’d love to have this book and play with the funky paper!
Hi there!! Thanks for introducing me to this book!! I have been revisiting collages lately and this is just what I need to get the gears rolling. Hand is raised!!
Xoxoxo
Pick me pick me! Collaging here I come!
-MR
Following you on Instagram has given me a new found love for collage–and I want to start working on creating some of my own!! This seems like a great way to launch my efforts Fingers crossed, I would love to win a copy
Oooh would love to win this! Thank you for the chance!!
I am loving these collage pieces!
Oh myyyy ive been wanting a magical book like this for so long.
Pick me~~
What a wonderful book! Thank you for doing the giveaway!
Ooooh! I juswt love collage. This book looks BRILLIANT! Please…. 🙂
Hooray for Andrea! And hooray for collage!
This book looks amazing. I’ve been making a lot lately, but want make better quality ones.
I love it! Looooove yo have one!
I would love to own this book! It looks so clear and fun to follow along with the directions. Every new book brings new inspiration.
This looks super amazing !!!! Love all the cool artists you introduce us to:)… and would love to win this!!
Oooh fingers crossed! This looks a fab book!
I’ve been making collages for about two years now, but am always looking for cool books like for advice and inspiration.
This looks amazing! I’d love one!
I’d love to be the lucky winner!!
Thanks for the recommendation; and all the visual treats you regularly provide! I love these art activity books – I have one for drawing that got me into blind contours; now to play with stencils and listen to that podcast ep on repeat….
This looks so fun! I would give this to my mega-awesome collage-covered notebook-making friend for inspiration!
Collage makes me so happy. I need to do it more often.
Oh yum, that sure looks good!
This book looks amazing! I need it!! I was a fan of collage back in my teens, now I long for it.
I think I kinda need this book…
This book l think would inspire !!
I can tell from these glimpses that this book is full of instructional and visual goodness! Need to get my hands on a copy
I have a big stash of paper that is waiting for a burst of inspiration!
You had me at making mistakes!!
I’m committing to keep some creative time set aside each day. This looks like just the sort of book I need to add to my collection to stay motivated.
One can never have enough books on collage, I would love to get my hands on this one! Thank you for the recommendation and for the chance to win this book. Fingers crossed! Warm greetings from the Netherlands.
this would be wonderful to share and explore with my 8yr old crafty daughter!
Once upon a time
A girl was awaiting her birthday
And all she could wish for
Was hidden between the papers of this book!
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I enjoy tour page and would love ro win the book, although i live in Denmark.
johanne avisby
Fresh inspiration in my hands, ummmm… smells nice!
Thank you for sharing this book with us, Danielle. I would love to draw inspiration from it!!
This book looks amazing! It could be just what I need to get out of this creative rut I’ve been in.
Sounds like a good one
I have so many supplies, this book could help me use them up.
This looks amazing!
this book looks amazing! 😮
Book is a book is a book is a book
Looks gorgeous!
This book looks amazing, thanks for the chance to win a copy!
Oh my, amazing!! Love it!!!
Oh, this book looks great! Thanks for the giveaway!
Collage has always intrigued me. I am fascinated by images of collages but never given it a go. I would love to win this book. Looks like it would be a great guide of ‘how to’.
I would LOVE to win this book. Besides it’s my birthday on the 9th.
Love it!
Yay!! Collage and giveaways!! Two of my favourite things 🙂
LOVE it, WANT it, NEED it, NOW
Ohhhh ! I’m already in love with book ! It seems such a “must-have” ! Thanks for the give away dear ! I’d love to discovery it ! I’m sure it will stimulate m’y brain so much ans help explore more and more !
Looks absolutely beautiful!! Fingers crossed! 🙂
Its beautiful! I love it!!
I love to win to learn new possibilities in the collage!
What a lovely book! Thanks for introducing it 🙂
Love the concept of this book as I love paper. Would help me to get creative juices flowing and learn something new. Yes please
Guess we are all coo-cuu for collage. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
I love collage and this book looks like so much fun! Thanks for the chance to win.
This book looks absolutely lovely! I have been flirting with collage, and I would love for this book to help me take a plunge into the deep end. It would be so great to have it! Visual art is endlessly inspiring
What a beautiful book! Definetly looks like a source of really good creative unblocks
Thanks so much for sharing this, and all that you do, Danielle! I spend my mid-afternoon snack time perusing all the loveliness you bring to us and it’s the best little treat each day. I’ve just recently started working in/ with paper again, so I’ve been keeping an eye out for resources to help get the flow moving once more. Fingers crossed!
I’m inspired to get out paper, scissors, glue, paint… right now from just seeing the few pages shown of Andrea’s book. If I don’t “win” Andrea’s book, I will be ordering it!
A book and a stack of paper, what’s not to love?
I’m so happy this book is finally out. I’ve been looking forward to seeing it since I first read about it on JC and saw the great illustrations. Congratulations.
Permission to make mistakes? All I make are are mistakes. I’m in!
Nice.
This looks awesome! I just made my first collage in a long time and enjoyed it so much. Here’s to many more!
want – no, need this book.
I want.
Lust in my heart. Thank you for publicizing such a great little book. Always helps to see again the lessons you keep forgetting.
yes, yes, yes, please!
I’m such a huge fan of Andrea’s colourful, spontaneous, delightful work, and wish her all the very best with this gorgeous book. Spread the collage love, Andrea!!
Love, love, love Andrea’s work. Thanks for the giveaway, Danielle!
looks amazing…
I am a mixed-media collage artist and I teach classes for Eldercollege. This book looks like it would be an excellent resource and confidence builder for my students.
What a great idea for a book!
Looks like an amazing book – a definite necessity!
I am crazy about collage, I want this book✂️✂️✂️ !!! I, too, am an art teacher…always want more books to share!
Love her work! This book sounds amazing!
Just put this on my Amazon wish list yesterday, before even seeing this post, because I happened to listen to your podcast with Andrea yesterday!!!!
Such a great idea! I’ve just rage-quitted from a job that made me unhappy to persue more creative interests. Perfect timing!
Cut cut paste paste use the paper make no waste
What a beautiful book! So excited for the giveaway!
This would be an amazing resource for the collage station in my high school art classroom! My students would LOVE IT…And I could borrow it on weekends 😉
I do collages with my elementary art students often, but just started experimenting with collage in my own art! This is a beautiful book!
Fantastic! I would adore this book!!
Oooooh! What a delicious looking book! Can’t wait to dig in!
Looks fabulous! Would love a copy and to introduce more collage into my artwork!
Once upon a me wanna!
Looove this! Already on my amazon wishlist.
Wow, looks like a fabulous book, thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of it.
Working and creating with hands…nothing can fullfill this need i suppose even taking photos…thank you the jealous curator, i would love to create more with this book, create more and create with others too…
Oh love love love! And want! Excited this is out in the world!
Thank you for your inspiring peeks into the world of arts. In need of a creative injection.
Collage is everything and I literally can throw nothing away!
therapeutic
Adorable. Perfect. I’d use this book with people who wish to embark upon art therapy.
Oh this does look lovely! Fingers crossed.
~Faith
Love it!
I love the look of this – such a cute book!
This looks amazing!! Fingers tightly crossed.
I’m such a fan of Andrea’s. She makes collage/illustration look so easy, (BUT WE KNOW IT IS NOT!)
I love Andrea D’Aquino and would love to share these ideas with my elementary school students.
I just bought a huge stack of old tomes to start my life as a collage-ist. This petite volume could be the just the spark ⚡️I need to finally get cutting
Me please – I’ll put it to such good use 🙂
This book looks really fun and inspiring! I wish I could have it
This book looks fantastic!
I am the luckiest and that’s why I am going to have this book!! :)))
I would LOVE to win a book like that. Learning new things, experimenting with paper, paint, glue… thanks fot giving away this book!
Me me me me me xxxx am back in my studio thanks to your books xxxx
Would love to win the book!
At the beginning of my artist journey this would be a fantastic resource…so that’s my hat in the ring 🙂
this would be a nice present for my daughter at uni !
Pick me pick me! I am taking a design course with Roz Stendahl and i need to make a collage.!!!!
This book looks so fabulous! would so love win! 🙂
Lovely looking book, would be a wonderful asset while at uni :)!
What a gorgeous little volume! So cheering and inspiring!
I’ve just recently started experimenting with collage again after a LONG, LONG break and I’m having such a good time. Also – my glue smells really good.
What a wonderful looking book, something to inspire a fun return to art making after many drought years
Oh I would love, love, love this book!!! I really would.
It’s a work of art on it’s own! Would love to use it 🙂
This book looks fabulous! Good job, Andrea!
I’d be happy to win one 😉
Such a visual treat!
Oh wow, this book looks amazing! I would love to win it to help me get back on track.
I love working with paper, and would very much like this book as instruction and inspiration.
Would love this as a resource for my A Level students!
Andrea’s work (as well as yours) is gorgeous and I’m excited to see the book 🙂
I would love to beat my creatingblock with this book!
I need a book like this to kick me into gear!
FOOD FOR THE SOUL! It looks so inspiring!
I’ve been collecting interesting scraps of paper for years, without knowing what to do with them. Seeing your book has inspired me to think about using them to create a collage, so winning a copy would be fabulous!
Wow, what a fun book! Love the title. This will make an excellent reference and resource for ideas and inspiration. A must have for any artists’ collection.
Many thanks for the chance to win – This book looks like hours of fun and inspiration!
I’d love to have this book in my collection! Thanks for the chance!!
Gorgeous! Would love to use this with the kids I teach 🙂 thanks for the chance!
The book looks lovely. How kind of you to be giving one. Hope I am the lucky one.
How kind of you to be giving a copy to some lucky person. I hope it’s me.
Awesome! Would be great for my community arts classes!
I love Andrea’s Alice in Wonderland book and wait to see this book in person!!
I love that collage artists are making and sharing and supporting Thanks! You and Andrea are truly an inspiration! Xox
Once Upon A Piece of Paper looks like the exact beginning I’m searching for…’.pretty please…..*wink wink.
I promise I’ll collage my buns off.
I love your blog. I love collage. Would love the book.
Lovely! Looks gorgeous and with smart views (mistakes are great and drama is in the details…. has she been to my family dinners??!) Thanks for the chance to win one! I have Alice and look forward to seeing this!
I’ve never created with collage but this looks like the perfect way to dive in! Would love ❤️ to give it a spin!
Oooh I would love that book!! I could get so many ideas for my students!! I hope I win 😀
Oh happiness !!! ……..colour….playfulness….”NO RULES ” …….I love you both !
Thank you Thank you !
Working with paper is one of my pleasures. I love tearing, cutting and gluing it. Such a change from working on a computer all week. I would love this book.
Intrigued! Want to see more of this!
I want this book! Pick me please please please.
Super rad. Definitely down to check this book out and pick up with some collage again– it’s been a while!
Pick me, pick me! Pppppllllllleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaasssseeeeeee!!!! This looks like a great book that would light a fire under anyone. I have to say anytime I want to be inspired I come to your site to find things to make me jealous and I’m always motivated. Book or not, Thank you for your time and efforts.
Oh my goodness! This book seems like the epitome of heaven for any collage artists. Hope I can get to win it! I’m still an amateur artist with a lot to learn, and I’m sure this book will inspire and help me (as well as my fellow collage artist friends) a lot 🙂
Thank you and Quarto Publishing for this generous giveaway! (All the best to all of the commenters!)
I love the book!!! I wish I could have it….Me encanta!!!
Besos!
Would love to have this book as a resource. I’m playing with all things collage lately and exploring”soul collage”.
Beautiful and inspiring – thank you for sharing!
Love this!!! ✂️
This looks amazing! Inspirational! Thanks for the opportunity.
I would love a copy of Andrea’s book! I have always loved her art work! She has evolved into one of the finest artists I know!
Cool inspiration, thanks for the chance check it out!
This book would be so helpful for my design classes (I’m studying art in college and can’t afford to buy books!) 🙂
Looks exciting and inspiring!
I am already jelaous of the winner! 🙂
I would love to win a copy of Once Upon a Piece of Paper by Andrea D’Aquino! It would be the perfect tool I need to get started on creating collage – something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time!
Yes, please!
Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!
Would love to have this for my students
would love to have a copy for our artists at Art Gym.
great xmas gift
This book looks amazing! I have the copy of Alice in Wonderland she illustrated sitting on my coffee table. Her work is just so interesting and fun!
Once Upon a Piece of Paper by Andrea D’Aquino? Yes please 🙂 This couldn’t arrive at a more perfect time. Thank you for the opportunity.
would love the chance to win that book!
What a fun and inspiring book! I would love to win a copy.
Lovely!!! This Collage Book is an inspiration and so I would love to win. Thank you thank you!
I love the positive & encouraging vibe off the book! Great art this week!!❤️
Creativity is spark by the ideas around us. This tome will inspire me and others to snip, snip our way to creativity. The spark is lit.
Life is one big collage. I’m in need of some life direction and would like to take it from a free copy of this book. Thank you.
Looks like such an inspiring book!!!
When does an artist not need another art book though?
oo yes, please.
Oh, my! I really covet this book!
Mine, mine!
I really love Andrea D’aquino’s loose style! Her Alice adventures in wonderland is also an amazing book!
Love collage! Making and viewing.
Fabulously fun book!
Yes please!
Ditto!
Chance Is the greatest artist
Look closely at nature for proof
Any book that inspires the artist to enjoy and employ it is
A treasure
It’s wonderful to see how many people are inspired by your efforts–keep up the good work! I’ve been putting together pieces based on photocopies of my old candy wrappers; every time I’m ready to throw them out some random mistake shows its head and we’re off again. It’s so true that the parts we like the least are the most fruitful if we are fearless enough to keep working with them: seeing the beauty in other people’s mistakes helps me keep the faith.
This book looks like the best thing to boost my creativity! : )
Holy collage!! As co-chair of a high school after-school art program- I love finding new ways to rip things up and make beautiful things.
i want to get out my scissors and paste right now and dig thru my scrap-box of images and paste cut paste cut paste cut paste cut paste cut! and say oooooooh, that was FUN!
What a resource. This book could be really useful!
I’m all about happy accidents- mistakes can be your best friend when creating!
This looks WONDERFUL! Hope I win!
Thank you for your wonderful site and your efforts to bring new artists to mind.
If I were so fortunate to win, it would go right next to my “Alice in Wonderland”book by her
in a special place for all to see and use in my teaching studio.
This book is great, and reminds me soo very much of an artist that teaches at the studio I run (jackilong.blogspot.com). I would love to give this to her. Is it available for purchase? If so where?
Love Andrea d’Aquino’s art and would love to continue my own adventures in collage with her by my side!
Looks like the perfect book for both, procrastinating and then snapping out of it <3
In the last few years I’ve started doing collages as a compliment to my reguarly painting work. I’d love to see a post about other great collage books as well.
JM
As an art history major and aspiring artist, I have discovered that creating collages has been the best outlet for me to express my creativity and it also distresses me entirely. This book would be an incredible resource for me to help continue the happiness I have found in collaging.
Sounds like a fascinating book! Always wanted to learn more about collage 😉
I love collage, I love Andrea’s work, and I love to have this book on my desk! And promise I will be a very good (book)keeper.
This book looks fantastic!
I’ve always loved collage- this book looks wonderful!
Thanks! I love your blog and look forward to your weekly podcasts.
Would love a copy as inspiration for my teaching. So fun❣️
This book looks amazing!
Sooooooo cool. Joining your blog!
It’s so lovely, i would wish to have one as inspiration for my fashion design studies!
What fun. I can’t wait to get all my collected papers out and make a collage.
I found so much inspiration for my teaching in your blog – thank-you! Collage is one of my favourite activities to do with my students. We’re always looking for new ideas!
This is inspiring me to play with color and paper–pick me, pick me–haha!
I would love to have this book. In fact, I May have to buy it if I don’t win it!
Gorgeous and inspiring!
I would love this book, her work is so inspiring!
Ah, love good creative mistake! The book looks wonderful…cheers
YES YES YES!!!
I have trouble with collage. My orderly, rectilinear, anal self is always getting in way. Perhaps this book could help me loosen up and plunge into compositions with a little more abandon.
What a fun giveaway! I remember that podcast–so exciting her book is out!
What a delicious book! mmmmm…. collage.
I would love it!
I would love this! I love making collages, but have a very different style. Would love to explore this too though!
I need help with collage! Mmmm! Good book for me?
love it! need it! want it!!!
Lovely!!!! Hope to win!!!
I want to start making my own collages and this book would be just fine! I want it. Desperately.
Instruction. Inspiration. Paper. Fabulous!!
This looks amazing!
the character “Mei”
These actually look like projects that I could do even though I am not very artistic (at least visually). Exciting!
This book looks amazing, I’ve been looking forward to have it since I heard about it!!
The book looks packed with helpful and inspirational information.
I would love to see more.
I love Andreas work!! Looks so good!!
I would love to win that book, all the inspiration:)
We suddenly had a free saturday afternoon and my girls suggested ‘knutselen’ (crafting). I told them i would like to try collage and there we went… it was so much fun! We even had a show and opening speeches! Please send us the book so we can keep this great tradition alive!!
Wow! All those people before me. As a nurse, my collage making is on the side; I specialize in feline and Hawaiian themes. All I can say is… Pick me! Pick me! But if you don’t, I may have to buy the book anyway!
FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so exciting!
what a whimsical book! cool! happy thanksgiving! 🙂
Being near the bottom is never a good sign that you will win. Here it goes!
Love the graphic quality of this book.
Looks fantastic! Thank you for discovering it for us!
This book looks like a lot of fun!
it will keep the creative ideas coming….
This looks amazing! I need this level of inspiration in my art life. Have been collaging for years and feeling utterly bored by my own process these day.
How exciting! Love collage!!
Love love love how beautiful this how-to/inspiration book is! Have a wonderful weekend!
Would love to share this with my students!
Wonderful giveaway! THANK YOU
Wow! This is wonderful. I’m teaching myself acrylics and collage and it would be incredible to have such a wonderful tool
This looks like an inspiring, useful and beautiful book! Would love to be able to explore and learn more about collage making!
Woah so lovely
Looks like a super fun book that would be a great read!
Beautiful book!
So many comments I nearly didn’t enter and I could be too late but hey better late than never and you’ve gotta be in it to win it!! I love the experimental and creatively encouraging nature of this book plus Andrea’s work is to die for!! Yay. Thanks for the chance to win x
What a great giveaway! My son is a budding artist and favors collages so when I saw this email I thought it was almost like it was meant to be. I hope it’s not too late to enter, I know the drawing is today; We just had a brush with the hurricane Matthew (in Florida) so I was a few days behind with checking emails otherwise I would have entered much sooner. Good luck to all entries!
It looks packed full of inspiration and then there are the papers. Drool!!!
This would be perfect for my high school students to check out!
So much fun with thuis book! So much inspiration. I love that your mistakes van Be the most beautiful things. I would-be love to try iT out!
Lovely.
ohhhhh! love love love
🙂 aloha!
Love the book. It is on my wishlist
What a fun book!!
Fantastic resource for our engagements with community college students!
this book would be an amazing resource for engagements with community college students and upcoming zine workshops, too!
Hurray for Andrea — one of the most inspiring artists anywhere! I want to learn ALL her secrets!
LOOOOVE Andrea´s work
Hope I’m not too late 🙁 – regardless, love Andrea’s work; it’s an inspiration