Sarah Montour

✂️ Making worlds out of paper scraps & imagination

[sarahmontour]

Hey there! Welcome to my blog! Thought it was about time for an intro post 😅

I am a creative journaling / collage artist and I’ve been doing the creative journaling for about 5 years, collage I started a couple months ago! Mostly analog collages overall but some digital as well on the shuffles app.

It’s my passion, my favorite hobby, and I’m fortunate to have sold over 20 of my completed journals so far.

I also sell “new” mini journals ^ with some blank pages and some collages already made inside too - I include some of my own stash of supplies to start you off - they make for a great gift to buy for someone you know who may want to start the hobby or just for yourself to try out! It’s basically a beginner’s kit more or less.

I am so appreciative of the support I’ve been shown so far in my journey as an artist! I am open to DM’s with any questions you may have on my process or how to get into the hobby, where to find supplies and how to get started etc.

Open for commissions - theme/color requests if anyone would like to see me make a collage or journal specifically for them!

My Linktree has everything on it including my Amazon finds list with supplies - so it’s nice and easy to find whatever you’re looking for:

https://linktr.ee/PaperAndPresence

Thanks for taking the time to read this post and check out my page! Happy crafting 💞

[sarahmontour]

This piece explores what happens when a cordless relic becomes a portal, fireworks, a beach day, a storm system swirling overhead, and something watching quietly from inside the burst. Dial 2 for transport, if you dare.

End Result:

Where does dialing 2 take you?

Beach day

Into the fireworks / eye

Into the storm

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

[sarahmontour]

Welcome to Galactic Lanes 🎳🪐

This collage takes a vintage Coca-Cola bowling ad and launches it straight into space, complete with a clock that felt very bowling-alley-core and a planet that’s doing a suspiciously good impression of a bowling ball floating just behind him.

End Result:

For longer videos and polls / more insight into my creative process check out my other socials! 👇🏼

Intuitive collage & visual journaling Process over perfection ✂️📖

[sarahmontour]

Working on a new series. Vintage coca-cola ads, but they got sent to space and nobody’s questioning it 🚀🥤

Which cosmic backdrop should the coke bowling family end up in?

A swirling nebula

Deep space, stars only

Straight up next to a planet

Surprise me, artist’s choice

Remaining time: 5 hours 58 minutes

[sarahmontour]

This collage explores the gap between what the mid-century imagination promised the future would look like, and how far away that promise still feels, cut straight through the old world it was supposed to replace.

End Result:

What would you name this piece?

A Breath of Tomorrow

Jet Age: Interrupted

The Future That Never Arrived

Remaining time: 3 days 2 hours

Follow my other socials to catch layout polls and longer process videos, and check out my Etsy shop for available collage prints 👇🏼

Intuitive collage & visual journaling Process over perfection ✂️📖

[sarahmontour]

Collage with Me!

Fast and furious, but make it vintage 🕯️🚘🏁

End Result:

Also, I have some new collage prints available for sale on my Etsy shop if you’d like to take a look the link is below 👀👇🏼

Intuitive collage & visual journaling Process over perfection ✂️📖

[sarahmontour]

Collage with Me: Everyday Life, Underneath It All

This collage explores the price a mother pays trying to shield a child from a system that was never built to protect either of them, and what happens once the waiting world finds her anyway.

End Result:

I also have some of my collage prints available now on my Etsy shop! Feel free to take a look, link is below 👀👇🏼

Intuitive collage & visual journaling Process over perfection ✂️📖

[sarahmontour]

Hi Sarah, I came across your artwork on Tumblr. I really like your style, especially the way you use color and cartoons. How long have you been selling your work?

Thanks for asking @mrmightymark! I’ve been selling since 2022, mostly mini journals early on, then took a long break from posting for sale. This past week I started up again, now focusing on collage prints (shop: PaperAndPresence). Appreciate the interest! 🥰

[sarahmontour]

Collage with Me!

Rush hour but make it glitchy 🚗 ✨

End Result:

Also, I've got new prints of some of my collages up in my Etsy shop, use the link below if you want to take a look 👀

Intuitive collage & visual journaling Process over perfection ✂️📖

[sarahmontour]

This collage explores the gap between the mythology of American freedom and the labor it was quietly built on top of. This piece looks at one thread of that: uniform, repetitive, largely unpaid, largely women's. Even Liberty herself got pulled into the row.

Happy 4th of July everyone 🇺🇸

End Result:

[sarahmontour]

Collage with Me: Sands of Time ⌛️

This collage explores time from every angle: geological, mechanical, and personal. And it lands on the one question underneath all the others: what truly deserves more of your time?

End Result:

[sarahmontour]

This one is purely for the joy of it. A vintage drive through candy land, windows down, sweet things everywhere.

End Result:

What would you name this piece?

Sweet Ride

Candy Land

Sugar Mike

Road Candy

Voting ended onJul 4

[sarahmontour]

This collage explores the fragmentation of women’s identity under the weight of external expectation. Sometimes the creative soul survives what the surface is put through. Sometimes they do quite an excellent job of erasing it completely.

End Result:

Intuitive collage & visual journaling Process over perfection ✂️📖

[sarahmontour]

This one is about the small but significant act of giving yourself permission to call yourself an artist and mean it.

End result:

[sarahmontour]

This collage explores what goes unsaid between people who can sense something is wrong but have no language ready for it yet.

End result:

What would you name this piece?

Unspoken

What Goes Unsaid

Fracture Point

Voting ended onJun 27

Intuitive collage & visual journaling Process over perfection ✂️📖

[sarahmontour]

Collage with Me

This collage explores two realities inside the same structure, those with the leverage to stand still, and those caught in the blur of constant motion.

End Result:

Intuitive collage & visual journaling Process over perfection ✂️📖

[sarahmontour]

This collage explores how comfortable we can get in spaces that were never meant for us, and how convincing that comfort can feel.

End Result:

What would you name this piece?

Borrowed Comfort

Comfortable Anyway

Settling In

Voting ended onJun 24