'Spirits of the Dead' ATC Tree

...Shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken,

Is a symbol and a token.

How it hangs upon the trees,

A mystery of mysteries!

-E.A. Poe

ATCs abound at AlteredPages.com this month. I could not stop at just one. Poe requires a branch-filled mobile.

Ingredients for your creative soup:

Card Blanks

Image Collages

Halloween Papers

Skull Beads

Gel Medium

Embellishments

Spray painted twig

The card blanks are perfect for cutting in half (2.5"x3.5") to make 2 ATC blanks.

Choose your alpha images. GRUESOME!!

Gel medium under and over:

Some Poe on the backside:

More gel medium:

Closeups with the embellishments:

The bat was just hanging around.

Note to self-find a raven:

Some pom pom and inked cheesecloth trims:

Poe to go:

You can never have enough Poe:

Hope you are now inspired to join the ATC fun this month with our awesomest of Design Teams!

How YOU can participate...

During September for ATC Awesomeness!

Create your ATCs and share them with us!

Prizes will be given weekly by random drawing to one lucky person. You simply send a photo of your ATC creation*, we will add it to the blog. You can submit any day of the week. Each Sunday a prize will be displayed on the Blog. The following Sunday a prize will be awarded. You can submit up to three photos each week. It's not mandatory, but we would really like for you to incorporate AlteredPages products with your ATCs. Prizes include papers, stamps, art pencils and more!

*Send your ATC photos one of two ways

Email to: Artsociates@gmail.com

Post on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlteredPagesArtsociates/
Very important to ADD hashtag #SeptemberATC so we know you want to be entered in the prize drawing.

Thanks for joining us and we hope you play along!

Ciao for now,
-Trish Alger

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DINA WAKLEY Featured Artist

We are SO Proud to present Dina Wakley with her ART and February Tip (oops, she says she is totally disorganized, so there is HOPE for all of us!) Dina Wakley is a mixed-media artist and teacher. She loves everything about art: creating it, thinking about it, looking at it, and teaching it. Dina is passionate about teaching art. She teaches both in-person and online workshops. She is a docent at the Phoenix Art Museum, where she gives tours to school groups and gets kids excited about art. As a Ranger Signature Designer, Dina designs a line of mixed-media art supplies that includes acrylic paints, mediums, brushes, rubber stamps, stencils, and more. Look for the Dina Wakley Media Line by Ranger at a store near you. Dina's books Art Journal Freedom and Art Journal Courage are available now. Also look for three new North Light DVDs starring Dina, available this month: "Art Journal Mark Making and Throwing Ink," Art Journal Color Courage," and &q

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