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Wanted to let a friend know how lucky I am to have her... With some St. Patrick's Day flair and smidgen of Pantone Greenery; the supplies used were: Cardstock    Embellishments    Rubber Stamp    Ink    Metallic Niji Pastels    Gold Stickers    Adhesive    Lots of creative love Stamping my image upon cardstock... Using the pastels on ephemera and stamped image, assembling it all and adhering... Here we have it... Thank you for stopping by and saying hi to the Design Team. Join us and our March Partner for lots more creative fun. Ciao for now, -Trish Alger

This month the Altered Pages Design Team is excited to be working with products from MD Hobby & Craft Today Karen Conner has create an upcycled frame she transformed into an earing holder using a MD Hobby & Craft metal sheet. Karen created a way to display her earrings with this beautiful MD Hobby & Craft metal sheet.  It will house frequently used earrings and still be pretty - like art. An old mat frame was upcycled to use with the metal sheet.  The mat got a base coat of  gesso , set aside to dry. Add dimension with texture paste and a stencil to the corners. The metal sheet cuts easily with a guillotine cutter, cut metal to the size needed to fit behind the mat.  Rub blue metallic wax paste with an old t-shirt over most of the metal sheet. Color the image from the   Altered Pager Ziegfeld Girls collage sheet with a q-tip ...

Deco Arts Media products are so versatile and one of my favorites is the Matte Medium - as I mentioned in my post earlier this month it can be used as a collage glue which is how it was used below... But it can also be used for image transfers!  For this canvas I transferred several butterflies to my canvas using only the Matte Medium.  I glued the images (face down) making sure not to get any of the medium on the back of the image.  Let it dry then wet with water and rubbed off the layers of paper...some more than others.   Once the image had dried I used the Matte Medium again, this time as a sealer for the transfer.  I also played with the Fluid Acrylics to add a bit of color to the canvas.... At this point to unify the colors I covered everything with a layer of the Titanium White Antiquing Cream - brushed it on and wiped it off with my hand to give it a muted feel. Oil Pastels were used to highlight the image transfer...

Roni here....don't you just love it when you get fun art supplies in the mail?  They just scream play with me and won't quit until you do.  Altered Pages is getting in so many fun new art supplies that I just had to place an order recently and when they arrived I just couldn't contain myself, I had to break them out and give 'em a whirl right then and there. I grabbed the first piece of paper I could find which happened to be a piece of watercolor paper that was a cut-off from a recent project.  It just so happens it's the perfect size to make a bookmark.  To start off I drew a quickie flower using a Micron Pen . I then added a layer of Silks glaze to the flower bits using my Niji Waterbrush ... I then added a bit of Niji Oil Pastels for the sky.  I blended the pastels, added a bit of pen work and finished the sky off with a clear layer of sparkle using the Wink of Stella brush. AP Products Used: Niji Waterbrush Niji Oil ...