new monthly challenge blog..

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This company make some wonderful paper craft items for altering.. shadow boxes , boxes , cubes, various shaped holders, books, you should take a look .. and if you have any then get therm altered and entered in to their challenge blog .. there is a prize!! and spread the word. I am lucky enough to have been given some of the items to alter from friends and I will be buying more!

Here is one of the cubes that I have already altered and shown on my blog previously.

Altered Matchbox

.. just because..

I wanted to distract myself from getting edgy lol.. so I made this quick simple altered matchbox

Another Canvas...

.. to match the last one sort of.. The square one was a gift for someone.. but I liked the general theme of it so made something very similar for myself.

Spray backgrounds. Saturday Workout

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My Tim Holtz Masks arrived along with my new glimmer mists today .. so I got stuck in and made a canvas.. I used my spray glimmer mists with the mask to create the background as suggested by Saturday's Workout..

Its called "Bird Song" and it measures 18inch x 18inch

Altered Card Block

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I got a few lovely gifts to alter from my forum friend Moira.. Moira has a shop called Happy Daze. Among the goodies she sent were a wooden block and a nice quality card block.. I altered them both today. This is the card block.. I cant get a picture of the stamped side as I sprayed it with glimmer mists and varnish so it glared back too much.. I may add a picture later if I can get one to work.

Dream Block

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Another of the blocks from Moira's shop Happy Daze. this is a wooden block . its been painted.. stamped on.. embossed and fantasy filmed... I added letters and flourishes my friend Ginger (Carol) cut out for me on her cutty out machine thingy.. spelling out DREAM .

One Powerful Hour

Altering Dominoes is the theme at one powerful hour. I am guest designer but due to all the stuff happening recently I didn't get time or feel able to make anything new. so this is an accordion book I made last year.. it doesn't take long to make these little books.. if you fold and prepare your little pages ready to go between the dominoes whiles the alcohol ink is drying on the domino its easy to do in an hour. so long as you have decided on and prepared the images and colours for the pages in advance.

I have added pictures of a few of my altered dominoes to let you see .

Dominoes are one of my favorite things to alter and can be as simple as colouring the domino and stamping on it.. to turning them into books.. or little art dolls.. they are effective simple or elaborate. So if you have never tried one give it a go.. I think they even look like precious stones if they are simply alcohol inked and nothing else! So no excuse. no matter if you are a beginner or been at it for years.. you CAN alter a domino.

If anyone wants more info on any of the dominoes email me and I will be happy to explain.

Lisa Volrath images

Lisa Volrath / Ten Seconds Studio / Go Make Something is offering free images / collage sheets in a great big advent calender.. opening one image sheet per day to be saved and used for your personal use.
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