     | | newsletter signup | store directory | bulletin board | calendar | surveys | shop online | coupons | digital designers | Mail Art! Altered Pop Bottle -- Article Like many gals, I have a few guilty pleasures. I watch Dirty Dancing on tv every time it’s on, I love Barry Manilow, and I follow my soap operas every day while I’m working from my home office. But one of my guilty pleasures really does make me feel guilty because it feels wasteful. I love drinking my frosty carbonated beverages out of the bottle, and while I put all of the bottles into my recycling bin, I can’t help but feel guilty about all of that plastic. I know someday I’ll kick my “habit” but in the meantime, I can use those bottles for another purpose: ART!
Altered Art 101: Altered Dollar Store Frame -- Article This article contains projects for intermediate paper crafters. This project is adapted from a workshop I took in the last year at the Artists’ Nook in Fort Collins, CO. The instructor, owner Christine Webb, showed us how to take an ordinary inexpensive frame from the dollar store and alter it to our own tastes. These frames can be the basis of an art piece (we altered copies of cabinet cards and inserted them into the frames) or the frames can make a really nice customized gift for a friend or loved one.
Altered Art 101: Altered Heart-shaped Candy Box Lid -- Article “I can do something with this” and “I can use this someday” and “I can make something out of this” are phrases that exit my mouth almost daily. This month I pulled out some of my long-hoarded Valentine’s Day candy heart boxes for some experimentation.
Altered Art 101: Altered Composition Book Daily Journal -- Article I have always loved composition books best of all the school and office supplies. Imagine my joy when I saw how popular they are with artists and papercrafters! Back in high school, when I was a lonely, brooding teen, I found that I could carry around a composition book along with the rest of my schoolbooks and nobody would know that the thing I was writing in was actually my journal. Since then, I have always used composition books for journaling. They’re so comforting and there’s something more permanent about them with their sewn spines, unlike those fly-by-night spiral notebooks!
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