Altered Pages Guest Designer

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Hello happy, altering people! I am so excited to be the guest designer on the Altered Pages blog today! I do love to alter stuff! Ok, I like to glue junk to other junk. {grin} Altered Pages is sponsoring the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog this month, and they were kind enough to ask me to be a featured designer as well. We are also doing a joint blog hop on August 18th between the Altered Pages team and my Hoarders team! woot!

I altered a large tag (8 1/2 x 3 1/5 inches) to create a fun, Halloween home decor item. You could also use this for fall decor by making a few changes to the project. I love the teal and orange combo. It's not very traditional, but I live in a place that doesn't really have seasons, so I can do what I like to decorate for fall! 

I love to make tags. They are such a fun canvas to alter. I covered this tag with Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells paper (8x8 pad) before adding all my lumpy stuff! I know the Steampunk Spells is "so last year" but I have GOBS AND GOBS of this paper, and I am going to use it, because it's still pretty and I still like it. {wink}

I added a chipboard bird cage from Leaky Shed Studio (I am a guest dt for them in September!) which I painted black. I love bird cages, and I love how the detail on the cage matches the detail on the black lace. Altered Pages sells some Leaky Shed chippies, which is fab and fun!

I had a digital copy of the Altered Pages Fairy Dolls (AP-1060) and I loved the colors on this fairy. I opened the file in Photoshop Elements 11 and enlarged her. I wanted her to be a bit bigger so that she fit the tag better. I printed her onto off-white cardstock and I used sharp scissors to fussy cut her. I used foam tape to pop her off the page. 

I found a fall spray (from the floral department of the craft store) hiding in my stash of "junk," and I had the idea that the fairy should hold one of the tiny pumpkins in her outstretched hand! Can you see it? 

I added lots more flowers and botanicals to the bird cage.

I stamped the date onto a scrap of paper and trimmed it with a die template. I sponged some ink over the top.

I also love bottle caps! I have a bin of black, squashed bottle caps that I dig into all the time. (Altered Pages sells bottle caps, too!) I used a circle punch to punch the moon sticker from a sheet of Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells stickers. The moon face fits perfectly inside the bottle cap!

I added a postage stamp sticker from the Graphic 45 sheet, plus I cut the butterfly image from the sticker sheet as well. (I have two butterflies on the project, because I had two sheets of the stickers! Ok, I have more than two sheets, but please, don't tell anyone!)

I topped the tag with some ribbon and flowers. 

And that is my project! Thanks to the Altered Pages crew for having me as a guest!

Altered Pages Products Used:
Fairy Dolls Collage Sheet (AP-1060)
Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells 8x8 Pad
Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells Cardstock Stickers
Scor-tape
Leaky Shed Bird Cage chipboard

Other Products Used:
Tag: Prima Julie Nutting Aquarelle
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts, Petaloo
Fall spray: Craft store
Leaves: Prima
Bottle cap: Bottle Cap Company
Silk ribbon: May Arts
Lace: Wild Orchid Crafts
Orange sheer ribbon: re-cycled gift packaging
Paint: Folk Art Enamel Licorice
Ink: Ranger Distress Dried Marigold; Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Graphic 45 Happy Haunting
Dies: Stampin' Up/Sizzix Apothecary Accents
Adhesive: Scotch 3M ATG; Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue