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Who doesn't love huge colorful flowers? Well, let's make some! Gather up a bunch of patterned papers...card stock works best, but by all means, add in some  Vintage Music Sheets  or other papers that you love.  This is a great way to use up scraps because the largest piece of paper I am using here is 6x6 so size does not matter.  You can do 8x8 or even 12 x 12!  As long as you have a perfect square you are all set.  This is great to work on when you feel like creating something, but you are not sure what.  Just grab pretty papers and start cutting petal shapes.  You can store them in a baggie or envelope and they will be ready to go when the mood strikes.  You can make a ton of these little guys while binging your fav Netflix.  This pic below represents a very small number of petals that I have cut recently...there are many more behind the scenes.  ;-)  To get the flower shape you will take your square of paper and...

Hi again guys! Today, I have a quick little lotus inspired ATC.   The supplies I used are listed below.  It all starts with this piece of card stock that a little pot of pain tipped over on.  I figured, hey, let's make a background rather than trying to scoop it up.   I added more paint and smoothered it all over that piece of cardstock with my palette knife allowing it to keep as much texture as possible and I set it aside.  That was months ago and here is it becoming something beautiful!    I added a touch of gray ink to the white areas of the paper and cut it down to ATC size.   Next, came a ripped scrap of Asian vintage text. I then took some of that same vintage paper and inked it a bit with my Niji metalic watercolors in green.  I wrote the phrase "No mud - No lotus".  It is just something I have always loved. I adhered that to the ATC with a bit of gray scrap under that.  To top it all ...

So much fun to be had this month with the theme of 'Love Makes The World Go Round' at Altered Pages. This is my second piece using the theme and I had a ball creating a tag this time.  I chose cream, gold and chocolate as the color theme and went and from th ere.            First, I cut some card into the shape of a tag and punched a hole in it using the hole tool.  You could use a manila tag for the base. I randomly inked the textured card with brown ink.     I wanted a little more of a chocolate tone of brown so I used some mica paint through a mask in a couple of random places on the tag.   I chose this image from the collage sheet. Adhered  it to the tag with tacky glue. I added some cream lace. Inked the edges of the tag,  then added some Platinum Stickles all around the edges. Add a little bow made from burlap fabric shaped, tied and edged with Platinum Stickles. Fin...

As we end the year here at Altered Pages we end our month with lace.  Lace is so versatile it comes in many colors, but in my stash of lace most of it is white.  White lace can be died to colors that match any project you are working on.  Today I am sharing half of the tags I made today, see more tags on New Years Day! Supplies: Classic Post Card Tags Altered Pages A Children's New Year  Collage sheet Altered Pages Vintage Bicycles Mail Box Muse Fringe & Fedoras Collage Sheet Mists - Brown, Red and Green DUO Gilding Gold Leaf Vintage Text Sheet music Gold Pen Tacky Glue Double sided tape Lace Trim Flowers Shabby Rose Charms Bronze Safety Pins Chipboard gears Washi Tape Stickles Dew Drops Doily Gold Glam Stickers Zig 2 Way Glue The New Years tags were created on the back of the Classic Post Card Tags ! Each tag was sprayed with two Mists - Brown and Red or Green . The tags curled and...

What winter activities come to mind?   For me, it is ice skating. As a kid I spent most Pennsylvania winters on ice. I was pretty good too with figure skates but put hockey skates or roller skates on me and BAM, on I was on the ground. Our collage # 719 Ice Ballet is such a wonderful collection of poised skaters.  Included are Italian, French, and more.   I have had a galvanized cigar tin for ages and finally figured it was time to do something with it. Shimmering iciness will adorn it along with branches like the trees surrounding the pond we skated on in the woods, hidden away and sort of secret. I first used a bit of sandpaper to rough up the areas I would be gluing with my PPA glue.   Then I applied lace from our lace packs and some ribbon from my stash that had a shimmer and a bluish purple cast, just like winter! Next came the images from the collage, it was really hard to decide on which ones, as they are all so love...