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At Christmas everything is either Naughty or Nice but at Halloween things can be Spooky and Cute together which is exactly what all these vintage Collage Images from Altered Pages have in common today.  Along with Pumpkin's, Cats and Witches Hats. I decided to use up some old post cards I had been hoarding as some Artist Trading Coin Bases.  I covered them with a thin coat of Gesso before painting the backs black and adding some purple and orange paint to the front. Some of the wonderful collage sheets I cut the delightful images from were Halloween Children and Happy Halloween along with a few others.  If cute isn't your thing you will also find some more scary looking images in store also.  One the paint of my backgrounds was dry I added some black stamping and then proceeded to add my images.  I added some wording to a couple also that was on one of the collage sheets.   I then took a white paint pen and dashed and...

Small Makes are always a great way to use up left over bits and pieces from other projects be it collage images, text, stamped images, punched shapes, papers etc.  The latest craze this year for tiny creations to trade and swap are Artist Trading Coins, which are similar to an Artist Trading Card but instead of a rectangle they are circular - a circle 2.5 inches in diameter to be exact. I have been once again tiding up my art space and found I had lots of Gelli Prints and handmade papers piling up, so I spent a few hours cutting these up into various smaller project pieces such as backgrounds for cards and ATC's.  Some I decided to cut into coins. I then got out my box that I collect my left over scraps in and played around with ideas. Finally settling on a few, I inked the edges of each of my elements and glued my selected bits and pieces down.  I kept mine as simple as this today, but you could always add further stamping and doodling to the backgrou...