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I love the style of this old-fashioned bicycle.  It's one of the chipboard die cuts available at DIY Design Studio and it is a lot of fun to use.   My first idea was to try and distress the image with ink.  The StazOn is good for distressing chip board because it's permanent and dries quickly.  It just wasn't the look I wanted today.  So I decided to paint them instead.  Perfect for my project. I liked the gold bike so well that I decided to paint the other one, too. I added some rhinestones just to blint them up a little bit. For the gold bike, I chose the Life Time pad of Prima paper.  You've seen me use this one before.  It's one of my favorites because of the range of shades and splatters.  They are beautiful papers. I needed a piece of paper 6 x 4 1/4.  I opted to make the darkest section the body of my card and then use the part with the sentiment as a layer.   I added ...

Hello Altered Pages and DIY Design Studio Friends and Fans.  It's Danie here coming to you with a Thursday Throwback Post acknowledging the approach of Thanksgiving.  Although we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia it is at this time of year my thoughts turn to being grateful for all that I have in my life.  Being Grateful is always a great thing to do when things don't go to plan and you get a little bit stressed which to be honest was a little how I was feeling today when I realized my project was due and I didn't have anything done for it. So rather than rush and chuck something together I paused and have chosen to do a throwback Thursday Post.  It does happen, sometimes life can cause us to loose focus and be a little bit distracted and we find ourselves caught out so to speak.  In my case today I was unorganized partly because I had been away last week and left things to the last minute like I often normally would do, the difference however this tim...

Happy Friday, artists!  So glad you could stop by today.  I have a greeting card & artist trading card (ATC) set to share with you.  I saw these two birdcages from Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts and built the card around them.  I searched my 6x6 paper pads and found these designs in the Authentique Devoted pad. All of the designs in this set are pet oriented and there is one with mini birdcages.  Perfect! I made a large invitation size card, which is 4.5 x 6.25.  This size ensures that  a lot of the floral background will still show even with the panels on top. I found a beautiful dusky pink paper in my collection that matched the scrapbook paper to showcase the painted birdcage.  I used it for the card body and small panel, but sometimes pale colors need a little help to make them stand out.  In this case, I used gold corner stickers and Dew Drops.  Altered Pages has several choices for each of these embellishments.  I use...

Hi Everyone it's Danie here!  As you read this post I will be in a beautiful part of the world hosting the Unruly PaperArts Retreat so thought I would share the way I artfully decorated and created the Goodies Bags that each attendee will be receiving which used an assortment of wonderful supplies you can find here at Altered Pages. I thought this perfectly meets our It's a Wrap theme here on the blog this month. I started with a Kraft Paper Shopping Bag and decided I was going to use my Gelli Plate some pizzazz, our theme for the retreat is Step Into Spring. My Gelli Printed Image would be in the centre so I decided to use a stencil first to add further detail and frame my print.  I used the TCW 12 x 12 Honeycomb Stencil and sponged on a mix of Green Acrylic Paints. Using some other assorted Greens I then applied a layer of paint to the Gelli Plate and took a print.  I did a mix of starting with a dark layer and then a light layer and vice versa.  For...

Easter is right around the corner and Altered Pages has so many cute Easter collage images up for grabs I just couldn't resist this little card... The Robin's Nest Supply List: Dew Drops Bunny Stripe Cardstock Shocking Pink Glitter Cardstock Altered Pages Supply List: Sweet Easter Cards Collage Sheet Micron Pen Crystal Lacquer Brown Ink Ink Blending Tool Lace Die-Cut Other Supplies: Cardstock Vellum Double Stick Foam Tape I also wanted to extend a personal thank you to The Robin's Nest for providing us with such a lovely variety of products to work with this month!  Be sure to stop by and check them out when you have a chance. Have an "altered" day ~ Ink Stained Roni

Yesterday's Two for Tuesday Altered Pages/Pink Persimmon Blog Hop was so much fun I thought I'd keep that fun going and post a card I made again combining Altered Pages and Pink Persimmon products. Today I have a Valentine's Day card I made using the PP stamp set called Little Red Wagon  and AP's collage sheet - 2265 A Piece of my Heart. The background was made using Schoolhouse Mixed Media Inx and a Nesting Doily die cut. I then added the die-cuts to the background, stamped & mounted the PP images to the card.  Finally I printed and cut out the vintage Valentines and tucked them in to the wagon. The little Casanova is even carrying an extra, just in case ;) So there you go... Hope you have a wonderful day ~ Ink Stained Roni

Hi Everyone!  It's Danie here again today and I have another Christmas Card to share with you all as I am still trying very hard to make a dint in my Christmas Card List.  I have found yet another wonderful Christmas Collage Sheet to play with.  This one is called Mid Century Christmas Retro (AP-2061) and it really has a great mix of images suitable for both Cards and Tags. My Christmas Greetings Sentiment is from the Even More Christmas Images Collage Sheet (AP1027) which I have used previously along with papers from the Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium 8 x 8 Paper Pad .  All of these wonderful products you will find at Altered Pages. For further interest I have used some items from my stash also.  I tied some Gold Satin Ribbon around my Card and then used a Sunny Yellow Pearl Pen to create some wonderful texture. I was inspired to use the Sunny Yellow on my card today as it sums up the weather here today as the temperature soared to a very hot and very ...

I hope you're all having a wonderful day!   Roni here...just bringing you the Letter "H"   "H" is for Halloween!!!   This is just a cheap 12" wood "H" that I bought on clearance at JoAnn's for $ .25! I painted it with bronze metallic paint from Eco Green The spider and pumpkins are part of the Halloween Border Die Cut set that I embellished with markers and glitter. I used some of the awesome Trick or Treat Graphic45 pattern paper to mat several of the images  and the remaining images are all from some of the amazing, haunting   Altered Pages Halloween Collage Sheets !      Have a haunting week everyone!!   

I know you all realize that Altered Pages has loads of amazing Collage Sheets but I wanted to share another area of Altered Pages that I love... Rubber Stamps, Inks & Supplies !!!  Yes, they have loads of really cool stamps in all sorts of themes, inks and tools.  My favorite stamps that AP offers though has to be the Steampunk themed stamps by Eco-Green!   I just love their Steampunk Accessories and the way cool Steampunk Alphabet .  Both of which I chose to share with you today! Who says Steampunk has to be dark and broody... I think you can get your " 'Punk" on using any color you like.  Today it's Pink!    This is a nifty little girlfriend card I made using the Steampunk Accessories and Steampunk Alphabet stamps which was paired with the Garnet Paris Trunk inks also from Eco Green.  I topped the stamped images off with a bit of Mica Mixers (Pink & Copper), a little die cut Crown , a bit of German Scrap , Lac...

Hello everybody, Ingrid here. I'm so excited to share this tag with you because it took my old puzzler some trial and error to come up with a solution to using die cuts with foil. My first attempt was to take a sheet of scor-tape and run it through my die cutter. The idea was that I would peel off one side and place it onto the background, peel off the top layer and then press the foil on it. Well that's great for circles and leaves but for the damask die cut there were some long skinny parts to it so when I tried to peel off one side it just stretched and stretched. Then it folded over itself. I even tried placing wax paper over the picture of the damask die for "perfect" placement so that I could then flip the whole thing sticky side down onto the background and peel away the wax paper. I just couldn't get the little skinny pieces to behave. Then I noticed that I had a negative cut out of the damask (the part left over after the pieces are taken out) sitt...

I know that the Design Team has posted there projects using the Gelli Plates , but I just had to post my project I did the other day when I was "playing" with my Gelli Plates ! I love this new product ! I could spend the whole day in my studio playing with this ! You can get your Gelli Plates HERE  ! You will not be disappointed ! I wanted to use mine to create some tags, so I got out some stamps, dies that I had cut out , and my Brushsticks ( fabulous tool )  ! After I applied various paints I used my stamps , dies & made some designs with the Brushsticks. Laying the tags down on my Gelli Plate and then lifting up each tag and seeing your new design  is half the fun !!! These are just some of the tags I did, and they are ready to go now to add more layers and embellishments !!  For my birdcage tag I used a die from Altered Pages , I love how it has a worn look , I added the text "DREAM" using clear embossing powder,and an ink pad using a b...