AlteredPages Artsociates

Howdy from Arizona,  It's HOT HOT HOT in JULY AlteredPages got its roots in digital art and we will be celebrating by using our digital art this month.   Above is a piece I created for the patriotic holidays, using Mischief Circus digital pieces. Our library of Collages totals over 3000 sheets that you can save to your personal files to use over and over again. Or if you prefer, you can order them printed on high-quality cardstock, j ust send a note to Artsociates@gmail.com to obtain price and delivery information. Thanks for stopping by, Jean

Happy April Everyone!  Thanks for joining me.  This month Altered Pages  is sharing ATC's and t oday, I am going to show you how I build a big background perfect for ATC's in a couple easy steps.  This background is perfect for ATC's, a future card or mixed media project.   And, it is just fun to play in all the decoupage and paint with no real rules.  This starts with a cereal box for my foundation.  I flipped it over and used the white side for my project.  Altered Pages has great ATC collage backs here .  I will just adhere these to the backs of my ATC's.  Next, I add torn vintage text pages and music sheets.  You can use any white glue for this.  I used Mod Podge.   Some of these pages had inks and color already added to them as they were left overs from other projects.   Then, I added fun colors in a random circle pattern using acrylic paints.  Most of the cool pattern above i...

Today I have for you a mixed media piece  featuring a  feather stencil. This project started with a substrate of cardboard.  (actually it is about a 9x10 inch piece of ceral box)  With matte medium, I adhered scraps of patterned paper, vintage music sheet  and inked up vintage text pages to the cardboard.  Then, I gave the whole piece a thin coat of  gesso. Next, I used a flower stencil and added a bit of texture with white acrylic paint.  Then came time to  ink it up. This piece basically used all the same steps.   This was a smaller piece of cardboard, gesso, a feather stencil with  modeling paste and inks.  I felt it needed a bit more dimension so I added a vintage text page flower that I made previously.  The colors were spot on and I had the perfect  feather giant gem  for the center of my flower.    I just happened to have a few chip board peacock fea...

      Hello everyone!  I hope you are all safe and sound. To all my Texas friends, I hope you are holding out alright in the midst of the storm! Today I am bringing you a Mixed-Media collage canvas using a mix of my awesome PRIMA flower stash. Can I just say how much I LOVE PRIMA?  Their flowers are done in such yummy colors and textures, I can't help but be inspired!   I hope you enjoy.     SUPPLIES:   PRIMA flowers Canvas board substrate (this one is 8 x 10) Miscellaneous embellishments ( metal, plastic, etc. from my stash) Acrylic Paints - Assorted colors Modeling Paste Gesso Adhesive Stencil Ribbon Old book pages Assorted mulberry papers Collage image (from my stash) Colored pencils or paint (to color her face)      Grabbing my stash of supplies - Here you can see that I have torn up some of the vintage pages and adhered them to the canvas board. No...

Jean here to tell you about the fabulous company we have partnered with in July. Lost Coast was the first stamp company we added to our website.  The creative artistry and original designs have always been some of my favorites. Linda and her partner are always traveling the world to offer stamps at shows and events.  I'm not sure when they get time to sleep!  Please take time to review the stamps we offer and then visit their website too.    Whatever your style, you can find it at AlteredPages.com and Lost Coast Designs Stamps .  Thanks for visiting and remember,  share some kindness!

Learning to find myself in the simple things. I adore old, vintage things and incorporating that look and feel into my art.  I hope you enjoy the video. Here are the supplies that were used: journal hymn paper gesso digital images vintage paint brown paint tag lace pencil glue     Thank you for watching and have a great day!