More Altered Book Pages

Last week has been a really busy week and I haven't had any time to work on my altered book.  Below are a few more pages and I will be spending a lot of time this week on getting it finished in time for our class.

frame page

envelope door page

shadow box behind envelope

weaving

folded pages with sewing

Mosaic

See you on Saturday...

Altered Book Class

I have started my altered book for the July 17th altered book class.  I'm having a lot of fun with this creating my masterpiece.

Below are photos of what I have done so far.  My goal is creating a page per day and so far I am on track.

pocket pages

window tag

collage page

4 pocket page

window page

next page of window

frame page

sewn in envelope

back of envelope

round doors revealing photos

tag page

back of tag page

Enjoy the photos I will be posting more photos soon.

Cookie Sheet Calendar Finally Done!!!!!

I finally finished my cookie sheet calendar and it's hung on the wall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay I'm still doing a few updates to it but its on the wall :0) 

I placed two mini envelopes at the bottom entitled "birthdays" and  "special occasions" to place a list of family and friend events.  I was going to place them with in the match boxes but I figured that would be too much work opening each match box monthly to see who is having a birthday or occasion.  Guess I'm getting lazy in my old age :-)

Next big project is the altered book!

June Unusual Shape Card Class

Yesterday was such a fun class; thanks everyone that joined in on the fun.

We made a variety of cards and fun shaped items in class: corset, shoe, wallet and bra & panty cards.  Below are photos of what we made in class.

Next month will be a variety of flowers to place on cards and other items on July 10th along with a class on Altered Books on July 17th.

Enjoy your week and take care...

Shoes

This Saturday is the unusual shape card class were we will be making a corset card, faux leather wallet, a surprise set of cards and this adorable gift holder, a shoe.  These shoes are adorable and perfect to hold small gifts.

I found the template online and the artist, Pam Curtis had two designs so I made them both.

Have a great week...

New Bracelets

Since it was Memorial Day weekend and all kinds of sales were going on I went to Michael's to pick up some craft goodies. While I was there I wanted to make a bracelet using bottle caps so I picked up a couple of bracelet chains and cool charms to add to my bracelets.


I flatten the bottle caps first than used alcohol inks in latte and copper to paint the caps to match the chain. I took some of my vintage belly dance photos, pages from an old book, some rhinestones and pieces from a watch to decorate the bottle caps. I used crystal lacquer to adhere the photos and embellishments to the bottle caps. Using jump rings I attached the bottle caps and charms to the bracelet chain and presto a beautiful piece of wearable art!

Cookie Sheet Calendar

I finally finished my cookie sheet calendar!!!

I learned so much from creating this 1st one I know what I will change on the next one! 

I'm changing the background to a solid paper since the retro ads are taking away from all the goodies on the match boxes.  I will also choose a few papers for the match boxes instead of so many different patterns.  The last thing I'm going to change is the size of the month plaques to be a bit smaller.

Cookie sheet covered with retro ads

Cookie sheet with background, month plaque and days of the week on flatten bottle caps

Month plaques

Finished cookie sheet calendar

Plain background, still need work!



Ladies bring all your collectibles with you on Saturday and lets get creative!