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 With Valentine's Day just around the corner during the month of January the Altered Pages Design Team will be creating projects inspiring "LOVE makes the World to Round"!  Be sure to stop by each day for ideas for your own handmade Valentines!   Love's Offering!         Supplies: Punchinella Manila tag Doily Ink Red Glue Stick Dew Drops Glue Gold Pen Tulle         With Punchinella  apply red ink to the Manila tag .  Outline tag with Gold Pen .   Cut image from collage sheet, adhere to doily with Glue Stick . Adhere to manila tag.   With Glue  attach Dew Drops  to the bottom of the manila tag .     Sign on the back like we did in grade school!     Come back for more inspiration tomorrow!    

Happy December Friends! The Altered Pages Design Team is focusing on lace this month.  I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.  I have done basically an easy project...it is just time consuming.   However, it is well worth the time and effort (and carpel tunnel syndrome.)  My finished piece is quite stunning at over 2 feet wide...that is quite a big bang for your buck.  Y ou may have seen this type of project before.  They are nothing new, but they are oh so lovely, do-able for just about any craft ability level and I thought this complimented the lace theme perfectly.  I am incorporating lace doilies into my piece.  First a commercial from Jean -  Read to the bottom to see your gift for this weekend! This project starts with vintage book pages...many, many vintage pages!   You will also need foam core, chip board or card board as your backing.  A handy dandy stapler is needed. You will use ...

Hi Everyone, Jess  here with a quick wrapping project that you can customize for any occasion.  You will soon discover I have a thing for anything with wings- birds, fairies, butterflies, you name it.  I figured there is no better way to kick off my posts than with a bird project.   I started with a 7X5 inch white craft bag and some doilies.  I folded the doilies in half and wrapped them around the bag.  I played with different size and colors until I came up with a combination that would work with my image. Once I made my decision I used my  double sided tape  to adhere them to the bag.   I chose the hummingbird image from the Altered Pages  Birds with Hats Collage sheet .  How can you not love a bird wearing a crown?! I cut out one full image and then trimmed just the butterfly on the crown out of a second image.  All of the images were inked around the edges to hide the white paper they are printed on. ...

This has been a great month of projects by the Altered Pages Design Team using products from our Partner DecoArts!  If you haven't seen all the post this month be sure to spend some time on the blog and look over the posts for January!  Today is your last chance to comment on the blog for a chance at this months giveaway! When January ends it means one thing... Valentines is just around the corner!  Today I have a few Valentines postcards!  These will have to mailed in envelopes as they have dimensional embellishments on them! Three sweet Valentines... In my stash I had a few heavy duty blank postcards that I decided to use for my Valentines. First, paint the postcards with DecoArt paints Media Fluid Acrylics: Primary Magenta, Cadmium Red Hue and Glamour Dust Ultra Fine Glitter Paint: Celebration Pink. Let it dry! Apply a thin coat of Matte Medium add doilies, sheet music and Altered Pages collage images .   On one of the ...