Oh No!

"Put the glue stick down, 

and step away from the paper"

So, I just can't stop making paper "things". I'm not sure why. I do know that I have enough ephemera and paper bits that I could continue making those "things" every day for the rest of my life.

What I really need to do is keep making new assemblage jewelry and listing it in my etsy shop. In fact, I need to list in ALL of my etsy shops. But the paper. It calls my name from across the room.

Meanwhile, here is a small portion of my current paper obsession.

ATC's

Chunky Book 4x4 pages:

 

I won't even show you the Art Tags and Altered Rolodex cards...

Sunday craft time

Have you ever heard of Altered Slide Mounts?

Well, I hadn't. Then a 4 for 4 swap came up in a Yahoo group I belong to and I knew I'd have to give it a try.

I used alcohol inks to color them. One of the things I love about alcohol inks is that if you are using them on something they can't soak in so they pool and look like a cross between tie dye and reptile scales. They dry pretty fast but I usually coat the with a quick shot of spray sealer just to make sure they never bleed or rub off. When you open these little hinged slides up, you can put a picture facing each way so it's double sided.  The do need a dab of E6000 or Glossy Accents to keep them closed after adding the pictures. My favorite, of course, is the Marie Antoinette one. The picture on the back is a foofy pink cake.

The intent for these is to send 4 and get 4 back from different artists. I guess then  to make them a little booklet like in this turtorial. The Crop-a-dile  make the holes easily without cracking the plastic mounts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pxCRaBHVrU

I think they would be really cute for a mom or grandma to hold little pictures of the kids. Especially if it was put together as an accordion type book. 

I'm also working on an altered spoon and did 2 more Marilyn ATC's  for a tag game.

Marilyn Always Sparkles and Blue Marilyn