Altered books and art journals are my favourite creative projects because they have few boundaries other than having fun. I like to consider it doing my bit to recycle as well when giving an old book a new way to shine.

Fancy Pants products are being used by our design team this month and got to say the Fancy Pants rub ons are a delight to work with.

Fancy Pants pretty printed papers are the background to ‘Inchies” decorated with a variety of stamps from the Tattered Angels range, Timeless Traveller, Romance and Nature. Can you pick all the different ones?  Got to love the size of the Tattered Angels stamps, great for all over large scale stamping but they have lots of little details to pick out and use in another way.  The big swirls (next to the bird) are from the tail of the owl stamp in the Nature series.

Frame is from the Regal Fonts and cute little bird is part of Heidi’s new collection of pre printed and embossed trims. Click on the images to enlarge and get a closer look, Fancy Pants Rubs are the perfect finishing touch of lots with lots of pretty colourful details without the bulk. Another page from the altered book celebrating nature complete with a spring fairy. She’s taken a shower in dazzling diamonds glimmer mist that makes it hard to capture in a photo but you can see the how the background is a blend of waterslide and sweet clover that blended beautifully simply by spraying from either end across the timeless romance mat. 

A little peek for next month of the cover for our altered book using Fancy Pants and a embossed nature chip tile, be sure to come back again to check our progress as the project evolves.

Lots of us became card makers as it is a great way to use up ends of papers and trims that are all over our workspace at the end of a project. We already know they match and work together so might as well as create a tag or card all ready for your next occasion. Fancy Pants papers are so pretty and used them as the back ground to mist over the frame and bird mats. Part of the timeless traveller stamp set include lots of little tickets and post cards that I keep finding a million uses for.

When you finish off your cards, do you remember to sign them off?  We put so much effort into our creations we should finish them with our mark. If it is good enough for Hallmark, shouldn’t we do the same?  Tattered Angels Timeless Romance stamps come with a couple of little handmade and made with love stamps that work well for signing your creations.  And don’t forget those nice hard stamp mats a great for assembling your stamps to create your own design combinations, and hopefully right side up , un like me who’s just noticed one of them are upside down.

Oh well, its a topsy turvy world some days and being creative is supposed to be about having fun.

And a peek into a new altered book project titled “left bank” full of graphic 45 papers, timeless traveller stamps and Heidi’s  tags Tattered Trinkets  tags.

My first project for February is a 15 minute special. I was thinking of making a banner about wishes do come true with the lovely Websters Pages paper but then spotted a multi photo frame and thought this looks more finished.

And best of all, spritzing the frame, Regal  Framed Fonts and slicing the paper, took me less than 15 minutes. How cool is that ! Tick that gift of our list of things to do with plenty of time to spare.   The font frames are glimmerised with Lemongrass and Sunflower – and Sweet Clover and Waterslide with a bit of Sapphire that lifted it up to a denim finish.

For many of you waiting for Spring to finally arrive I can suggest the new Spring range of glimmer mists will be sure to brighten your day. Here I used them on a mini book gift to celebrate the change of seasons that can’t come soon enough for some of us and the joys of nature.

Chipboard and stamps are from the  Nature series.

Websters papers are pretty tones of pinks and greens and blues match well with my colour palette of either the Spring or Summer range of special release colors.  Loving the way the metallic gold trim on the new tag set add an extra flourish to everything .

Have gotten a lot of use out of the nature stamp set in so many projects and cards.

Have you tried recycling the paper towel or scrap paper you have been spraying and misting with ? Paper towel provides a texture for glimmering colours to cling to adding all kinds of interesting effects.  That’s what gave me this unique little finish to the back of the mini book.

Some friends asked for suggestions on how to create  masculine cards that are not all shades of brown and covered in trucks.

Our special guys deserve nice cards too so I decided to go with pretty shade of Waterslide again, and a combination of the compass from time travellers and heart from timeless romance on a time traveller chip tile of a postcard. Just love the finish you achieve with the mat, stamp combination in my little creation titled the journey to love.

Tip: personalisation is best, add postage stamps from places that are of importance or tickets from  journeys for a unique and special touch you don’t get from store bought.

Finishing up with a quick little card and little nature chip tile celebrating nature in all shades of clover waterslide and cosmos.

Have a great weekend everyone!  Mandy

I have several projects to share with you today. This first one is a layout that I made to highlight a favorite photo of mine. My son LOVES being tickled by his Daddy. I started off  by spraying one corner using a Glimmer Screen from the Decorative Corners collection. I used Patina and gave it a light misting.

I used some Webster’s Journaling cards as the background for the photo. Papers from the Nature’s Storybook line, trims and stickers were also used.

I used Lime Twist amd Juneberry Wine on the Regal and N atureGlimmer Chips and on the frame from the new postage stamps font.

Here is the final result:

My next project uses a new tag from Heidi’s Rockin’ Royalty collection. I just LOVE these. The foil is so fun to mix with the Glimmer Mist. I used Lemongrass on it. I paired it with papers from the A Sweet Life line.

Here is another card that I made. I used some more of the cutouts. The tag is spritzed with Carribean Blue. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the resist effect on it. The bird is sprayed with Olive vine.

The papers are new from Webster’s. I used the Life’s Portrait line. The flower and birdcage are both cut from the paper.

This next project uses my current favorite photo of my son. I took this back in December and meant to use it for my Christmas card. But, I never got around to making them. Oops. I do love how it looks on this page, though.

I started off spritzing Patina and Olive Vine onto the Love Bingo card. This was layered under the photo along with one of Heidi’s Rockin’ Royalty cutouts. I spritzed that one with Crushed Shells and Olive Vine. I love combining colors! The papers on this page are all from the Home for the Holidays line. I made the flowers from the vellum from the line.

I sprayed Olive Vine onto the sheet music and Crushed Shells onto the strip of paper on the right side of the page. I love how the colors and papers worked so well together.

Before I go, I have one more project to share. I made this one for the booth at CHA. I used the chipboard tiles along with a Glimmer Screen, key and calling cards from the Timeless Romance line. I used Scarlet and Viva Pink on this project along with a bit of Tutti Fruiti.

I used Pink Lady Glimmer Glaze on the frame and the flower. I LOVE the look it gives!

Thanks for stopping by and for checking out my latest projects! Have a great day! ~Anabelle

My kit to use this month was the Nature Chip Tile Glimmer Kit.  There are warm Glimmer Mists colors and pretty green and bronze accents in the kit.

I made a Chip Tile wall decor piece.  The tiles are connected together with wire and sprayed with all of the Glimmer Mist colors included in the kit.  First I used the Mustard Seed color, then laid on the leaf Glimmer Screen and sprayed over it with the Burnt Red mist.  I spray my edges with Suede and then I like to drag the edges through the excess mist that is on my mat to highlight them. When the  tles were dry I sanded them,  then used a plastic cover that comes on the bottle of mist and also the bottom of a bottle to stamp circle images onto the tiles. 

 The Cocoa Glimmer Glass wings and bird were sparkled up a bit on the edges with an ultra fine glitter.  The mirror glass piece was covered entirely with the glitter and I love how the detail on the piece still show through.

I also glittered up the Glimmer Screen and cut it in half and layered it over the masked area then layered on a couple of Glimmer Glass leaves from the kit.

 
Thanks for stopping by during this busy season.  May you all have a wonderful holiday!  Linda

Today I’m going to show you a mini album I made with the Nature Chip Tile Kit. A gorgeous kit, wit green, red and brown mist colors, that was perfect for my photos of a family trip we made for Christmas 2008.

I made the covers and pages with the embossed tiles. I colored the first cover with the Mustard Seed Glimmer Mist. I also used the leaf mask with the Burnt Red Glimmer Mist, and the Suede Mist on the tag. I cut the word “Explore” in a bingo card for the title. Than I sticked the ribon and a Glimmer Glass, and wrote a few words.

For all the album, I printed and resized my 5 photos at the size of the tiles. Then for every double page, you have a photo with embellishments included in the kit, and an embossed tile colored with the mists and decorated.

Do not hesitate to stack elements…

To color the tiles, you can use the Glimmer Glasses as some masks, as I did here with the butterflies :

I wanted to keep an embossed side for the last cover, so the last double page doesn’t have any embossed part, that’s why I covered one page with the beautifull  green printed paper :

Then the last cover, colored with the Mustard Seed, and Burnt Red + Glimmer Glass :

Have great holidays and take care !

Gaëlle Fauglas.