Altered Pages - Father's Day Card

Nothing says "I love you" more than a hand made gift or card... Altered Pages has the images that need your imagination to create your one of a kind cards. You can order collage sheets digitally and have them delivered right to your mail box just in time to make your cards for

 Father's Day!

LOVE this image!

Supplies

From Altered Pages: 

Collage Sheets-That's Class (image of man)

Leaky Shed Chipboard Watch Parts Gear

Bazzill Antiqued Aged Paper Pad

Stash

Scrabble Tile "A"

Graphic 45 Key and Bee Clock Face

Bingo Card

Card Base

Glue Stick

Helmar's Quick Dry Glue

Card Base

Foam Tape

Brown ink to desserts edges

Don't forget to join the monthly challenge HERE... the theme is "Baby Dolls." This month we have an amazing prize!  Be sure to vote for your favorite project created by our design team members . 

Altered Pages Monthly Challenge Red & Gold

This month Altered Pages has challenged the Design Team and followers to create something RED & GOLD!  This was a fun challenge!  Please take the time to create something and link it to the Challenge HERE!

Supplies:
Box from thrift store
Gold Craft Paint
Terra Cotta Cherub Angel
Krylon Cherry Bomb Glitter Blast Glitter Spray
Altered Pages Collage Sheet - Victorian Valentines
Altered Pages Text Page
3d Mixers Mica Pink
Game Pieces - Scrabble Tiles, Alpha Dice, Dominos
Charms - Heart, Lock & Key, Arrow

Sakura Crystal Lacquer

German Scrap
Doily
Sheet Music
Paris Stamped in Clay
Bottle Cap with Image of Eiffel Tower
Red Seed Beads
Salt Shaker(clear glass)- painted with Red Sakura Lacquer
Handmade Red Paper Roses
Large Red Heart
Red Heart Bead
Glitter Glue - Gold & Red
Wooden Fleur-de- Lis painted Gold

First sand, wash off the dust and paint the house shaped box gold.  All items are attached using Sakura Crystal Lacquer. Add German Scrap foil to the edges as seen in the pictures. Adhere a page of text to back panel of the box, layering a doily on the text. Add a little bling to the doily with gold glitter glue. Attach strips of sheet music on the sides. 

Spray paint the Terra Cotta Cherub with a very light coating of Krylon Cherry Bomb Glitter Blast Glitter Spray. When dry gently wipe gold paint over the cherub being careful not to cover the Krylon glitter. Adhere heart bead and arrow.

Print Altered Pages Victorian Valentine images on matt photo paper.  Fussy cut and cover with a light coating of Sakura Lacquer to bring out the colors of the images.  To raise the images on the left, paint two dominos gold and wrap with German Scrap.  The image on right is on an alpa dice with a hint of gold paint toped with a Scrabble tile painted gold and wrapped with German Scrap.   

To make embellishments:

• Use Scrabble pieces to spell LOVE if you don't have an "O" a heart works in its place. Cover the letters with Sakura Crystal Lacquer mixed with Pink Mixers. 

• Bottle cap cut an Eiffel Tower image with a 1" punch. Adhere  in the bottle cap with Sakura Lacquer then cover the image with the lacquer.  Let it dry for 24 hours. Add lacquer around the outside of the image in the bottle cap, add see beads. 

• PARIS - stamp the word Paris in paper clay, let dry.  Use red and gold craft paint, coat with lacquer.

• Clear Glass salt shaker painted with red Sakura Crystal Lacquer. 

• Hand Made Roses made from red card stock and trimmed with red glitter glue.  

Once you have everything made you are ready to assemble. Have fun!

Remember to join the challenge at Altered Pages HERE!! Make a card or tag all, that is required is you use at least one item from Altered Pages!

Creative Paperclay® Bird Nest & Eggs!

I love collecting little things... even more I love making shadow boxes with the little things.  Sometimes I can't find everything I would like to put in a shadow box, so I make them!  I wanted a birds nest and couldn't find one small enough.  My Creative Paperclay® BIRD NEST with EGGS is the focal point.  

Here is the finished nest! 

To make the nests I took Creative Paperclay® and made long skinny noodles. Then laid them in a circular nest shape. The noodles are very delicate and were not adhered to each other.  When they were dried I used Sakura Crystal Lacquer to hold them together.

With small amounts of Creative Paperclay® I rolled out very small eggs!  

Here is the nest and eggs in the center of the shadow box after they were painted with acrylic paint.  

In this box a frozen Charlotte made of Creative Paperclay® is holding one of the eggs! 

Here is one of the eggs balanced on a shoe from Monopoly sitting on a dollhouse chair.   

 

In the back is a Creative Paperclay® heart cut with a mini cookie cutter, painted with burgundy acrylic paint.  

Left over from a previous project the bird is made with Creative Paperclay® in a mold! 

 

Close-up of the top of the bird themed house.  

The finished house

Just think of the endless items you could create with Creative Paperclay® to add to your collection of little things to make a shadow box!