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Made from a piece of red acid-free matboard and the cut up bits of one of those sample credit cards the companies send you in the mail.

The story behind this is this: I came home one day and found myself with a credit card offer that had come in the mail. Since credit cards and me REALLY don't mix, I figured I'd throw it away... but then, somehow, the idea to make a collage from it, using the shape of a Praying Mantis (a scary-looking, easily-recognizable predatory insect) struck me. It just did. It was just too perfect an idea to abandon (despite my lack of good craft glue), so I took a pair of scissors to the sample card they'd sent with it, and then took the pieces and rearranged them until I came up with this (which also has the little touch of having what looks like a little person running away from the Beast that it is the Credit Card Mantis, thanks to having some leftover pieces) - well, AFTER spending a good half hour or so online finding reference pictures of Praying Mantis, of course. The hard part was arguably gluing the darn things down. I had only a small amount of half-dried wood glue left, so it was a pain in the butt to glue them down, and there's a lot of little glue smears (which of course, caught the light of the camera flash, which I don't know how to turn off. Thankfully, I fixed most of that in Paint and Photoshop!), but all in all, I think it was still worth it, and I'm happy with the piece, even if the photo is kind of crappy and doesn't really do it justice.

The theme of this piece is obvious, I think, though it could probably be read more than one way, depending on how cynical your worldview is, I suppose.

-Jamie

Description
Made from a piece of red acid-free matboard and the cut up bits of one of those sample credit cards the companies send you in the mail.

The story behind this is this: I came home one day and found myself with a credit card offer that had come in the mail. Since credit cards and me REALLY don't mix, I figured I'd throw it away... but then, somehow, the idea to make a collage from it, using the shape of a Praying Mantis (a scary-looking, easily-recognizable predatory insect) struck me. It just did. It was just too perfect an idea to abandon (despite my lack of good craft glue), so I took a pair of scissors to the sample card they'd sent with it, and then took the pieces and rearranged them until I came up with this (which also has the little touch of having what looks like a little person running away from the Beast that it is the Credit Card Mantis, thanks to having some leftover pieces) - well, AFTER spending a good half hour or so online finding reference pictures of Praying Mantis, of course. The hard part was arguably gluing the darn things down. I had only a small amount of half-dried wood glue left, so it was a pain in the butt to glue them down, and there's a lot of little glue smears (which of course, caught the light of the camera flash, which I don't know how to turn off. Thankfully, I fixed most of that in Paint and Photoshop!), but all in all, I think it was still worth it, and I'm happy with the piece, even if the photo is kind of crappy and doesn't really do it justice.

The theme of this piece is obvious, I think, though it could probably be read more than one way, depending on how cynical your worldview is, I suppose.

-Jamie