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Stencils bring so much inspiration for me.  They allow me to have a jumping off point for a project.  Today I wanted to share my excitement about Spring. The natural choice was Dutch Spring created by 'Art by Marlene' from Crafters Workshop.  Please see the supply list below, along with some tips for getting you stencil ready. Bright, colors are perfect for this stencil. I have to say that I cheated and got a dollar store substrate, for one buck, you can't go wrong! I gessoed the board first and then used modeling paste with another layer of black gesso (quite honestly because my white gesso had sat too long without being shaken and was clumpy!   Drying it as I went with my heat gun.  Then I  began laying oil pastels and acrylic paints freely. Dollar store substrate Gesso, modeling paste and more gesso                               This...

Since all of our florals are at special prices we wanted to show you a few ideas for making wonderful cards, tags and packages. Not all Christmas items must be red and green.   We love the mixture that Prima uses for creating Holiday gift wrappings.    Any color works with the right touch. Miranda Edney from the Prima Team shows us how to use color! ADD GILDING to your flowers of any color Traditional is great too!  Created by  Mitsyana Wright for Little Birdie   Soft colors can make Shabby, feminine gifts. Use our fabulous PRINTABLES and you have a masterpeice! Order today and make wonderful items over your long weekend. Medallions on Sale Pink Florals All Flowers on SALE  (code florals) Gilding Holiday Printables

I am have a great time creating with The Crafters Workshop stencils.  Today I used the The Crafters Workshop RavenScape  Stencil.  I love all the numbers and bits and bobs on it.         Supplies: The Crafters Workshop stencil RavenScape Large Julie Nutting Tag Metallic Luster Wax Rub Dixie Belle Chalk Paint Flamingo Blue Acrylic Paint Palette knife Gilding Foil Leaf Duo Adhesive Glue Prima flowers 3D Mounting Squares Burlap Ribbon     First on a Large Julie Nutting Tag  apply Blue Acrylic Paint  and Dixie Belle Chalk Paint Flamingo  with a Palette knife .  I didn't want a brush painted look... using the Palette knife  gave me the perfect texture I was looking for.       Then I took the The Crafters Workshop RavenScape  Stencil and applied the Metallic Luster Wax Rub  (using my finger)!!!  Wash your stencils right away to keep ...

We have some TAG fun for you! Through the end of September, you can join the fun with us. We will host an interactive event here on the blog and on the AlteredPages Facebook page. Here is what you can do.   Create a tag, any size, any medium  Post your tag on our Facebook page Win GIVEAWAYS of tags, stamps & ?? Share your art and win some cool stuff.  We will have 5 winners. We will showcase your tags here on the blog  and on social media.  One tag per day gets you a prize drawing entry and if you use any AlteredPages products you get two entries into the drawings. To make it REALLY great for you, any mailable order we receive through 9-22-2017, will have 5 assorted tags added for FREE . Supplies for the tag above, click on each item for the link: Julie Nutting tag pad   (SALE) Assorted colors of inks and inkpads 12 x 12 Paper from our Paper Pack PPA Glue Dyeable Seam Binding Any questions on the creati...

The Altered Pages Design Team  would like to thank Prima for partnering with us during  the month of August. products.  We hope you enjoyed and were inspired by our projects.  Today we like to share the projects from our final fourth week.   Click on the links below the images to see the full post for each project!     Jennifer Rothstein - Prima Mixed Media Canvas   Robin Horasanian - Scraps of Love Lyneen Jesse - Prima embellished French Boxes Jean Moore - A WALK in the WOODS with PRIMA Lyneen Jesse - Prima on White Canvas!     Look for Prima products at AlteredPages.com  

Hello!  I have a tag art project to share with you today.  I think this would be a perfect gift tag for a wedding or anniversary present. Last week I made a greeting card with two beautiful Prima background papers and a page of mini sentiments.  If you missed the card, you can see it here .  To make the card background, I tore the sheets of 6x6 paper into strips.  I had several of these paper strips leftover when the card was done, as well as several other little pieces of paper cut from the paper pad. What do you do with scraps?  Throw them out?  No, that doesn't work for me with large pieces.  Keep them?  Sure, but where? Better just to use them!  The small squares were trimmed off the greeting card background and were only lightly glued together so I pulled most of them apart.  I started with the largest pieces and used a glue stick to adhere them to a Prima Watercolor Tag. Then I filled in some of the white spa...