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Is YOUR tag added to AlteredPages Facebook group? I was intrigued by this softly toned Skeleton from Collage 3091.   It's not your ghoulish  guy , but a muted rendition.   I began by decoupaging torn vintage text pages to the base tag. Then used an ink pad to randomly cover the tag, leaving some areas without color.    I fancy cut the skeleton parts and glued them down on the paper.   The real fun began when I mixed some brown reinker with water and soaked a piece of cheesecloth to gain an aged effect. Allow to dry on the CLOTHESLINE! The dyeable seam binding was added to the water ink mixture. I added some black and dipped the ribbon, removed it and added some red and dipped it again. Each time a bit of the ink stayed on the top of the water and created a mottled coloration.   I removed the wet ribbon from the ink water onto a paper towel to take away some excess water, then rolled it into a ball in my palm and al...

 Thank you Becky Bunn and Jackie Hedlund for joining the September Tag Challenge!       Here is how you can join the Tag Challenge! 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 9-24-2017, will have  5 assorted tags added for FREE. From the archives Altered Pages Design Team inspiration!!!   Please join us! 

Okay, I might use tags when I make stuff.  Maybe. cat themed book, with pockets full of tags This book is full of colored tags with quotes and stamping and collage images, with jute for pulls Tags made from patterned papers--these were for an Altered Pages Christmas Alphabetica kit. Another book full of tags that are books, "bound" together with my favorite lightbulb shaped pins. Even in altered books, pockets full of tags and collage images can add a great interactive element to the piece: Here is a list of my very favorite Altered Pages tag stuff . . . lightbulb shaped safety pins , for binding tags to tags and adding: beads transit tokens ribbons and silky seam binding and tulle bakers twine and jute a little shine with German Scrap or, even easier, these gold border stickers flowers!!!!!! any kind of border embellishment, like THESE paper ones, or THIS stamp Altered Pages is hosting an Art Tag Challenge through September--and yes, ther...