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Pretty in Purple - Cake photo holder

Hello! I hope you all had a great weekend.  It's HOT here in Arizona but I made a cake that won't melt, using a great little piece from Foundations Décor.         Supplies: Cake Photo holder Scrapbook Paper Acrylic Paint Paper Flowers Stickles Glue        I started with these items. I have some acrylic colors in metallic and in matte but you can use whatever type of paint you like. Paper flowers, glitter glue, scrapbook paper, glue and wooden cake photo holder. First I attached one side of the wooden piece to the opposite side of the paper I chose. I let the glue dry then cut around the piece. I paint the rest of the wood a light purple matte acrylic and paint the "frosting" pieces with some metallic light colored acrylic. I then painted the candle with a matte light green acrylic, the flame with the same metallic paint as the frosting and after that dried, I used glitter glue on the fla...

80's Baby!

Hi there and welcome! Stephanie here and man  is this a very exciting month at Altered Pages!  You may have already heard, but this is worth repeating.  We are very honored to partner with IMAGINE Crafts for the entire month of June!   Make sure to check back all month long to see what these two talented groups create for you. When I was going through my stash of goodies from IMAGINE Crafts there was a set of inks screaming at me to be the focal point.  I knew I had to use the Radiant Neon Ink Pads.  I loved the colors and they immediately took me back to the 80's...hence my title "80's Baby!"   You can see in the picture below I used the Electric Pink and Purple inks with small daubers to get a bright background to kick off this piece. My project is a continuation of my creepy baby book, that you may have seen in a couple previous posts here  and  here , using the Ar...