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The Altered Pages Design Team has been treating us with a  month full of SPOOKY projects!  Be sure to check back each day and see what they create with our partner ArtAnthology's products!  Comment each day on the blog for a chance to win a prize package from ArtAnthology and AlteredPages.com Altered Pages is also one of the 31 Days of Halloween blog hop sponsors. Our Design Team is participating in the hop... if you would like to hop along the blog roll is on the side bar! Welcome to Day 15 of the 31 Days of Halloween The question of the day is are you a good witch or a bad witch? This witch in training wants to know.... She is perched on a hat fit for a stylish witch that likes a bit of bling while she's out on the town.  The base of this hat is actually a knitting cone, a cardboard circle and a bit of wire (to help with shaping) covered with a layer of unbleached muslin which was glued in place with Aleene's Tacky Glue.  The entire ...

"You say I am a witch like it is a bad thing" Altered Pages Design Team members are having a great time partnering with  SinCity Stamps  and their Design Team this month!!! I hope you have been inpired by all the great projects this month! Today I am working with the Window  Chipboard Shrine designed by Barbara Rankin .  This was a really fun project. To start, I used my bone folder and created a score-line where I wanted to fold the shrine. Then I inked all the edges, including the fold creases and back. In this post if I mention stamping, everything is stamped with black  ink.        Cover the three panels with pattern cardstock. Before adhering... stamp images on the pattern paper, center panel has the  Winged Skeleton  stamped and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Print the  Altered Pages Collage Sheet "H"is for Halloween   on Craft Attitude Printable film. Cut out the "H" you desi...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the second half of our monthly partnership with Sin City Stamps .  For the remainder of the month, both design teams will be creating Halloween themed projects using products from both Sin City Stamps and Altered Pages .  So if you love Halloween, like I do, you won't want to miss all the inspiration from both design teams. For my project today, I went a little crazy.  I decided to make a mini album out of this cool chipboard shrine from Sin City Stamps. Here are a few pictures of my finished book, front and back. I took a gazillion photos and because it is a book, there were lots of directions.  So I decided to, hopefully, make it easier for you to read by using Snapguide.  I hope you enjoy my tutorial and pictures of each page. Check out How to Halloween Mini Album: Do Not Enter by Barbara Rankin on Snapguide . Supplies Used: Altered Pages :   AP-288 Happy Halloween collage sheet ;   ...

Happy Friday, Artsociates!  I recently went on my annual craft getaway weekend with my cousin.  We go to a scrapbooking lodge every year to enjoy non-stop crafting and pampering.  We had a lot of fun!!  I had a couple of projects marked as have-to-dos and I am proud to say they were both done by Saturday afternoon!  Then it was time to play.  I got out some pre-cut ATC (Artist Trading Card) chipboard and stamps from both Altered Pages and Sin City Stamps.  The two companies are partnered in August and my second project this month is Halloween themed!  Today I am sharing the six ATCs I made with these stamps. Two stamp sets from Altered Pages and a few stamps from Sin City were used to create the designs above.  Most of these are masked, with the exception of the winged gargoyle.  In that case, this head and body were stamped on a piece of card stock, trimmed and glued on.  I have provided a list at the b...

Oh what fun... we're getting in the Halloween mood with our blog partners for August - Sin City Stamps  using their fun rubber stamps and chipboard.  I was luck enough to be able to play with the Shrine Chipboard Frame set which consists of a arched shrine background, laser cut frame and a scary black cat! So here's what I created.... Dead men tell NO tales! I had such fun creating this shrine to Halloween...I started off by inking the entire shrine with black ink.  I then added silver and gold highlights to the fence and tombstone cross using Delicata metallic inks.  I printed out several different collage images which were fussy cut.  My tombstones were stamped on paper that had been water-colored with metallic silver Gelatos to add a bit of color and shimmer. The sentiment was stamped on a piece of scrap paper and smudged with several colors of ink to give it a vintage neglected look. I love this line of pu...

Happy Friday!!!  So, you may or may not know that Altered Pages  and  Sin City Stamps  design teams have been collaborating for the month of August.  The first couple weeks of the month we concentrated on all things "fairy" and some amazing projects were created.  For the second and my most favorite portion of the partnership we are waking the spirits and Halloween is our theme.   I have for you today a Halloween Shrine titled Good-night Dear One.     For this project I used the  Chipboard Shrine Frame  and Halloween rubber stamps   from Sin City Stamps as well as collages images and other goodies from  Altered Pages. I started by inking up the blank chip board shrine.  I quickly realized that this was leaving an amazing pattern on my craft sheet so I grabbed a tag to lay behind while I finished inking and I now have the perfect background and beginning for a Halloween tag.    ...

Happy Thursday to you!!!  For my fairy themed, Sin City Stamps Partner project, I've started filling one of a series of tiny, hand stitched books.  Altered Pages had plenty of wonderful inspiration for this volume--lots of little embellishments, and the pièce de résistance, the Alphabet Fairies collage page .  Perfect for The Flower Fairy Alphabetica , yes? The title was computer printed on some Glitz patterned paper , then glued to a very sturdy little chipboard plaque from Sin City Stamps . This was attached to the book cover, which was coated with various paints, glitter , and crayon.      Here is the first layout--"A" for Apple Blossom: You can see that little flourish all over the pages (from Sin City Stamps) is the perfect size for tiny book stamping.  It will definitely be appearing in future Alphabetica layouts! I'm keeping the embellishments flat, or the book will end up exploding before I even get to "M," so a lit...