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I made a pendant for a  friend, and decided to alter a gift box to go with it. This particular friend is blind, so I used paints, and then little jewels to spell her name in braille.  (Have you ever tried to read braille?  It's hard!) Here's the pendant--I'm going to add a ribbon: love Nothing fancy, just a little something fun! I used paints for the box, but not inks and stamps ?  Or even a little all-over collage, with occasion appropriate images?   Speaking of occasion appropriate images from Altered Pages, I also like to alter little jewelry boxes into Christmas ornaments, like this one: instructions here. Thank you for stopping by today;  there will be more altered boxes all this month at Altered Pages!  If you've missed some posts, you might want to scroll through and see all the wonderful ideas from the Design Team this month. Happy Thursday to you, :)trisha

As you may know, for the month of June Altered Pages is teaming with IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko to give you tons of summer time arty inspiration.  Today I have a metal art pendant to share with you, with lots of bits and pieces and fun little details: It really almost glows, thanks to the beautiful StazOn Inks.  For this piece, I layered the Cactus Green with the Emerald Green using Ink Blushers sponges, then a layer of the GlazOn (wonderful stuff;  it prevents the stamped inks from smearing, unless of course you're like me, and too impatient to wait for anything to dry!).  Next is a layer or two of background stamping, plus a main image for each metal charm/tag--all with a thin coat of the GlazOn between each color of StazOn, a little ink around the edges for good measure, and a spritzing of Goosebumps Texture Spray for some extra shine and dimension:  Had to add one of the Transit Tokens! Behind each metal charm is a slightly larger charm, punche...