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If you ever hesitated to  create art...  Try Gel Press You can start with a 3x5 plate and then graduate to larger sizes.   The Impressables are totally amazing! Create simple backgrounds  simple brayered colors or stunning stand alone pieces for framing. mandala impressable Use colors you shy away from to see the gorgeousness of bold or soft design. It's just paint and paper! art by Jen Starr GO FOR IT!   Get 25% off stencils today.  

Classes are so varied and great learning is happening for everyone. We had wonderful instructors  and fun times. Meet Carmen from the Phoenix Fridas, they have a craft collective that meets monthly and does public events like the July celebration of Frida's birthday with art, cakes, dancing and more.   We will tell you more about creating your own art group in your town or neighborhood.   Here is some of our gang being silly after a class, you are either walking your feet off or making your bottom tired from sitting....so we had to get up and laugh a bit.   Meet some of the Team, see them say Hi to YOU Much more to come from today's opening of the Show floor, meeting all the vendors and reconnecting with old friends.   See ya later!

We have introduced artists, authors, design team members and more.  Today I thought it was about time to meet the woman behind ALTERED PAGES... The amazing woman, talented artist, hard working entrepreneur, mother, grandmother, wife and friend to many... JEAN MOORE    I have been honored to work with Jean over the last few years we have only met in person once, we work on the Altered Pages blog and with the Altered Pages Design Team together.  I enjoy working with her and am proud to call her my friend. She is one of those people you meet and feel you have known them forever! Enough rambling let's meet JEAN..... When did you realize you might have a real desire or talent for creating Art?   As a kid I dabbled as all kids do. My first BIG piece was in first grade when the teacher picked me to paint HUGE pink flowers on the walls of a playhouse in our classroom. As a teen I sketched and always took art as a...

Altered Pages is honored to introduce you to author and artist ANNE POWERS Smoke from Small Fires   "It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving, creativity is all she has to weather the hard times. As an adult, she describes her art: It is about the rituals of our lives, we who live in the tribes of Appalachia, and the spook in the hollow, the voodoo of the mountains. In Smoke from Small Fires, happily off-tilt characters, bizarre events, and the gamut of human emotions stack up like a collage layered thick with compelling details. Rendered in visually rich prose, courageous Anna Grace and her quirky band of kin and friends rise above poignant trials that will color your mind's eye for a long time."   Every pla...

We are SO Proud to present Dina Wakley with her ART and February Tip   (oops, she says she is totally disorganized, so there is HOPE for all of us!) Dina Wakley is a mixed-media artist and teacher. She loves everything about art: creating it, thinking about it, looking at it, and teaching it. Dina is passionate about teaching art. She teaches both in-person and online workshops.  She is a docent at the Phoenix Art Museum, where she gives tours to school groups and gets kids excited about art. As a Ranger Signature Designer, Dina designs a line of mixed-media art supplies that includes acrylic paints, mediums, brushes, rubber stamps, stencils, and more. Look for the Dina Wakley Media Line by Ranger at a store near you.  Dina's books Art Journal Freedom and Art Journal Courage are available now. Also look for three new North Light DVDs starring Dina, available this month: "Art Journal Mark Making and Throwing Ink," Art Journal Color Courage," and ...

We are incredibly pleased to share ART from  Our Featured Artist... Tracy Verdugo hailing from New South Wales, Australia Tracy brings happy color and wondrous beauty when she creates "wonder-ism". Tracy's book Paint MOJO is an amazing learning tool plus she offers classes online, we adore her work! PLEASE SHARE TRACY'S GORGEOUS ARTWORK with your friends. If  Tracy Verdugo was given the opportunity to coin a term for a new art movement based around what she teaches  she  might call it “Curiosity and Wonderism”or  maybe “Loosen-upism” or “Endless possibilitism” When she is not hanging out with her family in their artsy adobe home in a small village on the shores of Jervis Bay, Australia, or throwing paint around in her little purple studio in their backyard, you may find her wrangling with two large suitcases attempting to board the BART in San Francisco en route to teach at an art retreat or sitting in a circle on St Pete...

A New Blog Now that the business of AlteredPages.com has become somewhat less of a mystery to me, I feel   I can branch out and explore more.   Alteredpages.com is my dream and I am living it.    Please make sure to go to our website to see new kits, new products and happy faces!    Our Design Team is remarkable.   Dianne, Lindart, Trisha, Gayle, Cathy, Eunice, Arline, Katrina, Christine, Debi, Michelle and Tolegranny are the creative geniuses when it comes to our kits and design inspiration. I am proud to announce that Gayle Page-Robak is our Creative Artist.    Gayle's work will be seen here as well as on the website and in our Yahoo group.      Gayle has a full category of original collages available for you.    Please join our newsletter for coupons, specials and announcements, you will find the sign up on our homepage http://www.alteredpages.com/ This blog will be a forum for showcasing ta...