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Altered Art: Embellishing Your Altered Art

Embellishing is essentially the last step in the process. It is like decorating your home. You have to get the walls painted, the floor or carpet changed and then you can add the accessories. The same goes for a scrapbook layout or a piece of altered art. Choosing your embellishments might be the hardest part, if you aren’t already prepared with a design ahead of time. A good piece of advice, is to take it with you to the scrapbook or craft store the next time you go, and look for coordinating items that will work. As I noted yesterday, … Continue reading →

My Favorite “Go To” Techniques Part 1

We all have them. They are our favorite techniques that we go to time and time again. They are like old friends that you can really count on. What are some of your favorite “go to” techniques? I would like to share some of mine with you. Using paint There are some many things that I love about using paint on my projects. I love that it is a little (sometimes a lot) messy and can cover up other mistakes. Here are some of my favorite things to do with paint. 1. Mixing custom colors. I love that I can … Continue reading →

Altered Pencil Box

It is always fun to use our scrapbooking supplies for things other than creating layouts. I recently created several gifts for my children’s friends using my scrapbook supplies. I created customized pencil boxes for each of the children. I tried to match paper and embellishments to each of their personalities. I would like to share the details of the creations here. Collect Supplies. I picked up the pencil boxes at the dollar store. I made sure that all of the edges were flat because that makes it easier to cover with paper. The next step was to go through my … Continue reading →

Gift Idea: Deck of Cards Album – Getting Started

Altered art is one of my most favorite forms of creativity. It is so much fun to create new from old. Just to brighten something drab and ugly and make it better and more beautiful! That’s what I am doing this Christmas. Lots of altered art projects. My current project are mini albums for each of my five children. This will be our first Christmas together as a blended family and I am very excited about that. To commemorate the past year, I have collected lots of group shots from various celebrations, from events and holidays throughout the year. I … Continue reading →

Wall Art For The Frugal Minded (2)

Continuing our creative discussion of wall art for the frugal minded, I have several more great ideas. Creating wall art is easy and saves a lot of money off store purchased items. Frame the item yourself and you’ve saved even more. Here are a few more great ideas to get you working on personalizing your home even further. Collage Art Cut photos and patterns out of papers, calendars and greeting cards collaging them together in a slightly shabby chic way. Cut the entire print to the size of the frame you want, and you have a piece of wall art … Continue reading →

Altered Art: The Paint Can

The latest rage is scrapbooking seems to be altered art. Altered art defined is when you take something that isn’t necessarily a scrapbooking supply or item and turn it into a work of art. Many different items can be altered and turned into gifts for others. I have seen some exotic items altered including boxes, books, clip boards and more. Paint Cans seem to be one of the favorites amongst altered items right now. People have been altering paint cans for a couple of years and they are very impressive. Most altered paint cans become gifts for others. They are … Continue reading →

Cheap Scrapbooking Supplies from the Kitchen 2

I’ve mentioned before, I just love looking for more great inexpensive items from strange places in my home. I like using things that might not otherwise have been used for exactly that use. Have you ever used anything from around your house in your albums and on your layouts? Part one of the article is posted here. There are plenty more where the original article left off. Plastic Baggies – They are certainly great for sorting and storing items, but they can also be used to hold memorabilia on your page, or to cover a tag or to create a … Continue reading →

Cheap Scrapbooking Supplies from the Kitchen 1

Awhile back I wrote a two part article on finding cheap scrapbooking supplies in the bathroom. I got a lot of mail from that article from scrapbookers who thought it was cool to find things like that in the bathroom. I promise to add to my findings, as they came along so here is a new location in your home to find cheap scrapbooking supplies – the kitchen. Bread Tab Ties – These little tabs are awesome for embellishing your pages. You can paint them, ink them, distress them, emboss them, stamp on them, alter them with patterned paper and … Continue reading →

Alter This! – Alena Hennessy

Alter This!: Radical Ideas for Transforming Books Into Art by Alena Hennessy is a great book for the altered book beginner because it explains so many techniques for transforming books, including projects for hardbacks, paperbacks, board books, and even phonebooks! Altered book pros will find inspiration for fun and creative projects and ideas for taking their artwork a step or two further. And scrapbookers will find many techniques that they can use in their own albums. With altered books, before you add too much to a paper page, you will need to make it sturdier so that the paper doesn’t … Continue reading →

3D Pictures

One thing I’ve learned with collage and altered books is that drawings don’t have to be flat. Even kids who are a little bored with regular coloring and painting will get interested in three dimensional pictures. There are so many things you use. Think about buttons, ribbon scraps, leftover caps from bottles, Popsicle sticks, different nuts, peanut shells, raisins, cheerios, dried beans, fruit loops, sticks from the yard, pine straw, and dried pasta of all different shapes – elbows, wheels, shells. Buttons can be eyes, pasta swirls can be hair, and pine straw can be fur or hair. Sticks can … Continue reading →