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One of the first things I learned in photography class was the rule of thirds. The next thing I learned was to throw them out the window. Not entirely really, but to remember that art is an extension of me, and I am far from perfect 🤔😲🤫 😋. I finally got the guts to do a piece that was going to be in a permanent place once it was finished, and maybe 2/3 of the way through I realized that I hated it! 😰. So I walked away crying 😭 and remembered that I had no focal point! For as planned out as the piece was, everything moved to the background once I added it (literally and figuratively), and everything looked great. Even the background popped, and the whole family loved it (and trust me, they're not afraid to let me know if something is, a-hem, "not my best work"). Just jump in with what another one of my other instructors calls "reckless abandon" and go for it. Know the rules and don't be afraid to break them. Art is an extension of you and you are beautiful! With love from the Southern California desert, MK. 🤗♥️🌵🏜️

Thank you, Natasa. Lovely creation! Two things make your videos particularly helpful. First, you provide a written plan so viewers know what you intend to accomplish in that lesson; we don't have to guess or wonder. Second, you share your thinking out loud as you decide your design, select your materials, pick colors, etc. This greatly helps viewers understand your process, why you are doing what you are doing. That is EXCELLENT teaching! It helps to optimize viewers' learning. Thanks for taking us on this explorative, creative journey with you! 💌 Cheryl in AZ

Hi Natasa, thank you for this rules to collage. I really appreciate them. By the way: you are the tutorial queen. Yours are short, you telling everything, the print screen opportunity and your voice is so calming and that's all what it need. xx Manuela

Natasha, I don't think you were ever doing 3rd grade work! You are WAY to talented! I love all your work. 😊

“Not everything needs to be inked” yes it is hard to resist the temptation! Love your videos. I always learn something new. Thank you!

Thank you for showing collage as design, rather than the random gluing that I've seen on so many other video. They both have their purpose, but I had pretty much given up on collage because I struggle with randomness. As an aside: Rule of thirds is a guideline for any kind of layout - photographs (as @EmmKaa mentions), magazine pages, collages. It's really a simplified, much easier to follow version of the Fibonacci sequence, which can be depicted as a spiral that starts small in the middle and increases as it goes around. The shell of a chambered nautilus is a perfect example. Very, very few people need to dive down to that level of detail in their layouts, but I've found it helps me to picture that spiral when trying to figure out how to place items around the focal point. One reason your collage works so well is that it follows the spiral very effectively. If you use the girl's face as the starting point, swirling up and to the right will take you through the boy's face and to the right edge of the page. Keep going and you hit the inner then outer circles of the doily, then the butterfly (where the angle of your snippet is a perfect match for the imaginary curve), up to the top of your background piece and off the page. The sentiment is the only major design element that doesn't fall on one of those imaginary curves. However, it sits quite nicely in the space between the lines and would have gotten lost on the book page, so I think you made a good call. Because, after all, thirds and spirals are just guidelines. : )

Natasha I'm so new at this and I have listened to alot of crafters, but, you, my dear are the best when it comes to journals and tutorials. Thank you for all you do. ❤

Hi Natasa: I get the distinct impression that you're sharing your stellar tutorials as a way to keep us all busy and thinking of something other than the the current situation we all find ourselves in. Just wanted to let you know how much you're appreciated :-)

College has always baffled me. I have tried but it always looks like I have just thrown odd pieces of paper at a page. This was very helpful and I may try again. Thank you for sharing the video. I always enjoy your tutorials you have a lovely way of imparting knowledge 🥰

This is so helpful! Thank you for searching out a better way to collage and then sharing it with us!

Oh yes. You can definitely see the difference between today’s page and the earlier one. Once again, thank you.

Love the page! Thank you for the research and doing this page!

oh wow... beautiful, the explanation and the rules are soooo helpful, it makes a lot of sense, now. your tutorials are incredibly helpful, i'll have to watch them all! 🥰

I obviously missed third grade art class :) Thank you. I always felt overwhelmed with collages. Looking forward to it now

No third grader teacher would attempt this!!! Glue and three crayons were her limit. I luv that you break rules and give us written instructions!!!

Thank you for sharing 🌻 your research helps to understand!

Thanks for sharing your process!

Thank you for doing this tutorial. Its very helpful!!!...Your page turned out Lovely!

A work of art.

Collage is difficult. I really struggle. Thanks for sharing. You are so generous with your time and you are a great teacher. I love that you use simple supplies so I am not tempted to buy more.

Well done! I enjoy using a script stamp on the initial layer, you never know where it will end up showing but I think it adds interest. Take care, hugs and blessings,🤗❤️

Thanks a lot for your tips❤I find your page beautiful!

it looks great!

Thank you! Needed some help with collaging!!

Thank you for sharing this collage video. I struggle trying to do these without stressing out. When you put it into steps and show the design reasoning, it makes sense and more fun too!👍🙂

Great tips - thank you!

You are such a good teacher of art and design. Thank you for the detailed notes, they are extremely helpful and encouraging for a beginner. Stay well and healthy.

Thank you for taking us through your learning eperience

I love your tutorials Natasha, you make me giggle as well as give such lovely clear instructions. Love your work!

This is a really gorgeous page!

Looks Fab! I wondered how the phone book page would look....I’ve been cleaning out some stuff and found a few old phone books and thought about it. Maybe I’ll keep them after all 🙂TYFS ❤️

I always enjoy all your projects thank you for posting.

Both pages are awesome.

this was great, thanks for sharing

Wow! I’m going to watch this later. X

I love your tutorials. I shared this video with my daughter-in-law to share with my granddaughters because I think your humility and teachable attitude are excellent examples for them to follow. I like the way you show the process you went through and how you dove in even though you weren't entirely confident you were doing it correctly. Thanks!

I really enjoyed this video. I would love if you did some more collage videos. Thank you for sharing! ❤

Your collage was lovely! Thanks for taking us along for the ride!

I enjoyed watching your process! It certainly turned out beautiful. Thanks for sharing your tips!

This was great. Thank you!

Beautiful collage ! Thank you for sharing your step by step method . Kind regards - Judi

You are such a good teacher! Thank you!! :)

You are a very good teacher. I’m a retired teacher and like to study other teaching techniques, regardless of the topic. Thank you for your careful presentations.

Enjoyed!

Very interesting. It helps a lot, thank you.

I love collaging and will undertake the next one with much more confidence, keeping the rule of thirds in mind. Thanx for sharing your tips and tricks with us. I love your collage.

I love your projects and tutorials 💖💖💖

What a difference the rule of thirds makes! This was an excellent subject and tutorial. Thank you so much for taking the time to give a precise demonstration. Have a wonderful, peaceful and relaxing week!

Natasa, you are a joy to watch! I could watch a video from you every day! Your collage was beautiful.

Thanks for sharing! I just learned something new from collages. Hvala ljepo!

Natasha thank you for sharing these helpful rules . stay happy stay safe!

I like that you broke down collaging into an easy-to-follow blueprint. Very helpful. Thank you Natasa Have a great day. ❤️ Stay safe.

I love this. Thank you. I know what I can do with my old photos

I found this very helpful and I think practice is the key. I love this collage just the way it is. Well done! Thanks for sharing. Take care and stay well. 😘😘

A nice little tutorial! Love the way your picture turned out. It's nice to have starting points when you know you can branch out if need be. Thanks for sharing.

Thk you for the orderly way.in which you have introduced beginners like me to create a collage......as I fumble n.bumble my way ....

Thank you for this. I think not wanting to ruin the project by adding something at the end is the lament of many a crafter!!!!! I know they say 'it's only paper' but after all your decisioning you just want it to look right or at least pleasing. Love your tutorials.

Beautiful collage. You truly inspire me. Love your work ❤

Natasha! Beautiful 🥰 Tfs 😘 love your creativity and I really am inspired to start my first Junk journal. I'm just feeling overwhelmed. Gorgeous, excited for You and your channel 😘

Nice dirty little collage. Your artistic brain is amazing. Thank you for telling about thirds. I'm not happy about you getting overwhelmed with choices, I'm just relieved it's not only me.

I love your projects and tutorials :)

Lovely and timely. I have also been playing around with collaging, so now I can use your notes and try again. I love the way yours turned out and I know that my next one will be better than my previous attempts because of you. Again, you are helping me to become more creative each time I watch one of your videos, so thank you.. take care

What a great lesson! Thanks!

Thankyou for sharing the rule I would love to try this as it looks beautiful tfs I love how you always write it down so we can copy an screenshot

I love your collage!!

Love all your collage ideas and I am hooked on it. I made one of those journals and was heaps of fun. I usually don't plan and do my own thing too :) Thanks for the inspiration xx

Brilliant tutorial, love having the design concept to follow. It really helps as a jumping off point to actually try things, and you are so humble in reflecting on your work. Thank you so much.

Love that video!!! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this video. You posted it just in time. I have been struggling with collage. This is wonderful, I like that you have instructions sheets. I will be learning along with you. I love collage, but I don't have a knack for it. This rule of 3rds makes sense and really helped me to think about collage differently.

I am so thankful I found you channel. Your way of teaching is wonderful, so informational and detailed. Love your notes. Big hugs...

This looks so beautiful, love your methods with this too x

I haven't done any collaging 'yet', but so enjoy your videos for use in other areas that I create … art envelopes and fabric postcards. Your techniques work there too. And LOVE love LOVE that you have a written page to the right to follow along. thank YOU

Your videos are always so informative, easy to follow, and relaxing. Your voice has a calming effect. I always look forward to your videos. ❣

I think you did a great job! Very pleasing to the eye.

This is a great idea and demo ... I will definitely give it a try, thank you.

Great to see a different prospective on this process it really resonated with me. Then taking a photo to check placement, genius!! Keep safe, healthy and Craftin!!🦋💜🐞💙🕉️🌻🧡🦚

I absolutely love collage (and its stuck up sister decoupage!) Thank you so much for the written description on the screen- I wish more people did the same (of course, that's easy for me to say since I'm here to learn (for free) from the amazing KZfaq crafters. You definitely just got a new subscriber! BTW- it came out fantabulous!!

Thank you for sharing - it's the first time I've ever seen any rules applied to collaging and I love having the guide - I think it will make it much easier when I have that blank page in front of me with no idea where to begin. :)

I think it looks real nice, great job!!!

Thank you for sharing this rule. I struggle with collage also. Now I can figure out why some of mine work and others don’t. So grateful for you style of teaching. I love the step-by-steps process and your written notes especially since my art skills are at best third grade!

Great job, Natasa! I like both the little bit of negative space and the amount of doily visible. Also like the aged page edges. Thank you for sharing the theory. 💖

Lovely, Natasa! I’m not an expert at collage, but this is just as good as any I’ve seen other artists do. Thanks for taking us through your process. 😊

This page is lovely. You explain the rule of thirds guidelines very well for beginners and a refreshing course for those of us who have been around awhile.. very well done. Look forward to next. 💕

I did not know there were guidelines. Thanks for this tutorial! I am going try this out! You get top marks in all that you do! TFS. I did. God bless and stay safe!

Just really useful again Natasa. Good work, good teaching and always makes you want to keep watching and listening. Then try it!

Love it. Very helpful

Wonderful explanation of collage. Thank you!

I liked this video very very much (again *hehe*) and I liked the collage very much. You're right, there is a very big difference between the two collages you showed. I didn't use any technique for collaging, yet, and I wanna follow my heart as I did in the past, but sometimes it's helpful to have a bit of a technique in the back of your brain and thinking process. So thanks for this amazing video again!

thanks Nastasa, another great tutorial and I like your 3rd rule, it makes sense and definately balanced the page. I am on Lplates so all these tips help.

It looks great. Loving your videos. Tfs cheers

Adding a bit of phone book page to a collage?! I've never thought of or seen that before! :) Cool idea. I haven't done many collages to be honest, but that's another element I'll incorporate from now on. I've got plenty of phone books.

You did an amazing job! Be proud! ❤️

Awesome video. Thanks for teaching something that I have never seen anyone else do. Very interesting💖💖

Thanks so much for sharing this! I’m a little familiar with the rule of thirds but now I better understand it! ❤️

Thank you, Natasa. Photography is another hobby of mine where I do use the Rule of Thirds but never thought about using it for a page layout. As always, I appreciate you.

Nicely done! This turned out very well. I’m certainly no expert or pro! One suggestion to think about in future, of course you could take it or leave it...you could do some distressing around the edge of the picture like roughing up the edges, a couple of little tears or folds,or, placing some of the smaller bits that are under the photo, over the edges of the photo instead. The page itself has very rough, rustic edges. The doily could have been torn as well, so it wasn’t perfectly round. Funny because I kept thinking, put the stitched paper under the butterfly, and then you did it! 😊 It’s a really great page!

I like it! I haven't done a collage since grade school but want to try it in my journal since I see so many pretty ones online. This is encouraging me to try it! I also ordered a bunch of distress inks after watching your videos lol. Can't wait to try them!!

Looks good

I like the Rule of Thirds to help me with placement whether I'm making journals, making a card or even scrapbooking. My eyes like this process, and it's helpful for me. Thank you for sharing.