Posts from ‘Altered’
This week we are showcasing the color Honeysuckle, which was the color of the year 2011. This is the perfect color for that special day when we declare our love to that special person in your life. Is also a good time to start preparing our kiddies treat boxes, cards and other gifts, so pay attention to these weeks posts because we will be filling you with awesome ideas for Valentine’s Day.
This mailbox cost me only $1 and dressed it up with 4 x12 patterned paper, ribbons and some stickers. For gluing the cardstock I used the Tombow Stamp Runner and for the embellishments I used the Mono Multi Glue. I also made a coordinating card with the cutest cherub which I colored with my Tombow Dual Brush Pens. I paper pierced the cloud and used Tombow Foam Tabs. The card is size 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 which fits perfectly in the mailbox.
I can’t believe how cute this cherub looks with Honeysuckle hair!! I love how bright my Tombow Dual Brush Pens are and not to mention how incredibly easy they are to use for beginners like me.
I hope you liked this romantic project!!
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I used Tombow’s Mono Adhesive Power Bond to adhere all the papers to the tin and Tombow’s Mono Adhesive Permanent to adhere paper to paper.
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This week we are showcasing the color Tangerine Tango, which is the color of the year!! Orange is my favorite color and this hue is my second favorite!! Some of my plans for this year is to do more Home Decor pieces. I moved to the US on October and a lot has happened since then, leaving me very little time to make more Home Decor. In my house back home my daughter had a mural and her room didn’t need much more to be cute. Now she has the whitest walls in the world and is kind of sad. One of my projects for this year will be to turn that plain white room into a nice and fun environment. I bought this birdhouse with the idea to turn it on a nice decoration.
The first thing I did was testing the Dual Brush Pens on the bottom of the birdhouse and I remember that last week, Sarah gave us a little tip about using the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue first, letting it dry and then using the Dual Brush Pens. She used chipboard but it was worth a try and it worked the same. Using the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue before coloring the birdhouse made it much brighter. I used the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue on the parts I was going to color with Dual Brush Pens and let it dry. I did super fun laundry while I waited so you probably don’t need to wait overnight. Then I colored the Tangerine and Green parts and let them rest for a few minutes and used a little bit more of the Mono Aqua Liquid Glue to seal it. After it was dry I measured as best as I could the parts that I was going to cover with paper leaving just a tiny tiny bit extra so I could sand it down later. I used my awesome Mono Multi Liquid Glue to glue the paper on the house. The broad tip helped me spread glue across the surface easily. If there was lots of excess on the paper I trimmed it down with a craft knife and then I sand it down. For the roof I used 7 layers of paper stripes and a scalloped border punch. For the front of the house I used a border punch to make a fence-like detail . I also used a die cut, a little detail to give the illusion of a tiny window and 3 handmade flowers that I made with felt, pearls and my Mono Multi Liquid Glue.
I loved using the Dual Brush Pens instead of paint, it looks more like a stain which makes it a little bit more realistic and shiny!! I loved all these bright colors together!! Hopefully the year 2012 will be bright 
This was such a fun project!! It made me feel like a kid again!! I hope you’ll give Home Decor a try this year!!
I hope you liked this project!!
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i have lost count as to how many organizing ideas i have tried out. well, add this to the countless number.calendars are great, but they never seem to give me enough room to write what i need to. or more importantly what my family needs to see.
so i thought i’d give this a try. i made magnets for each day of the week. then i put them on my fridge with a piece of paper under each one. it is easier for everyone to see what is going on that day, who is going where, and what needs to be done.
crossing my fingers for an organized 2012 (while still using my organizational binder, and my bill sorter, and my kid’s daily schedule…i told you i have tried many ideas!) to make the magnets i used Tombow Dual Brush Pens to color raw chipboard. the colors seep in nicely to the chipboard textures leaving an even and soft color.with 96 colors it is easy to find a color to match the papers i was working with. with a circle punch i made 7 circles and inked the edges with a dark brown Dual Brush Pen. then using Tombow MONO Multi Liquid Glue i layered all the pieces together -raw chipboard circle, pattern paper, marker – colored chipboard, with a raw magnet on the back. the Multi is strong enough that even the force of raw magnets will not separate the magnet and the chipboard, and tacky so it holds the paper and the chipboard well without warping or bubbling because it is too wet.
as an experiment i wanted to see what would happen if i coated the raw chipbaord with Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue before coloring it with a Tombow Brush Pen. the result was a slightly more vibrant color with a shine. see the difference between the flower with Aqua and the circle without?
wishing all a HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY CRAFTING!
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Did you all have a Merry Christmas? If you have a large family like I do, you may still be celebrating. We have one more gathering at my cousin’s New Year’s Eve day and my youngest son’s birthday is tomorrow, so we will be having a party then as well.
With all the Christmas projects I’ve made lately, I decided to share with you a non-Christmas looking project, even though I made these as gifts. They are so quick and easy to do…altered mini composition note pads.
**A timesaver tip: I stamp a bunch of images onto cardstock, cut apart and keep in an envelope. I take them to work when I’m going to stay at school over my lunch break and color (we only get 30 minutes for lunch, takes me 5-10 minutes to eat, so I have plenty of time to color Ü). Then when I have time, I just match the colored images to paper and create whatever.
For this particular project, I just covered the notebook with papers using Mono Adhesive Power Bond and colored the images with Irojiten Pencils. These are so handy to have extra on hand so that you have a little something for someone when you need it.
I hope you enjoyed this quick and easy project. I would like to wish you a very Happy New Year! We have some fun things to share with you next year starting just next week. Be sure to come back and invite your friends too!
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this week’s blog hop allowed me the opportunity to stretch my creative juices and take these fun stickers past just paper and try using them in a different way.
and added a bow to the top of the ornament and tied on some gold cording. the result is an outline of the image, that allows light through, and glows when it hangs on the Christmas tree. and i love it!
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I wanted to share a quick, easy and cheap idea for a gift. Since I just moved to the States I wanted to send our family photos of our daughter and I made a photo book (that can be easily made with any kind of binding system). I just clustered some embellishments, most made by me like that felt flower that I made using my Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue. I also used the Mono Multi Liquid Glue for gluing the doily and the ribbon. For my background mat I used my Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive. I love using Tombow’s runners that way, they look super smooth without any lines or wrinkling. 
I used my Mono Aqua Liquid Glue for the Clear Dew Drops. In like all my projects I used the Foam Tabs for the butterflies and for the brad since I didn’t want to pierce the book I folded the prongs and stuck a foam tab there and it worked like a charm! But I have to say that the star of this project was my loopy embellishments that I made with… are you ready to go back in time… My Spirograph and the Tombow Dual Brush Pens!!! I am officially hooked, the fine tip of the *Tombow Dual Brush Pens fit perfectly in the holes, you can mix colors, you can use the blender pen and they are acid free so they work amazingly for your scrapbooks and paper crafts. Plus you have over 90 colors to choose from, that makes a lot of loopy embellishments!!
The Tombow Dual Brush Pens are a must in every crafter’s room. They are so versatile, you can use them for coloring images, calligraphy, doodling and Spirograph-ing (if that is even a word). If you don’t have them, now you know what you can ask Santa to bring you this Christmas. 
I hope you liked my retro inspired project as much as I loved making it!!
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This is the other challenge I was telling you about that had me stumped. The only thing I could think of was organ donation and Sharron said “no” to that. Ü So it was back to the drawing board….what to do.
I came across these free printables and thought that this gift “keeps giving” (fresh breath for every mint) LOL! Well, it works doesn’t it? Ü
For the front I wrapped cardstock around the Tic Tacs and used Tombow’s Mono Adhesive Permanent. I colored the image with Dual Brush Tip Pens: 977, 856, 905, & 491. To make the polka dots on the hat and scarf, I made the dots with the Glue Pen and let it dry then colored the images. The glue acts as a resist and is fun to add designs to an otherwise plain image.
Here is the cute saying on the back:
I hope you enjoyed this little treat.
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i decided to look up the origin of the saying. did you know that it was coined to promote “talking machines”, “talking machine records” in 1924, which was a phonograph.
who knew???? i certainly didn’t.
but that didn’t help me with my idea. and then i got to thinking, the gift idea i had found for my husband for this year is a gift that will keep on giving…at least until December 2012!
my gift is a year’s worth of dates. my husband is very supportive of my creative projects, so i know he will appreciate the time that i am putting into this. so as the scrapbooker that i am, i wanted to make a place to keep pictures or our thoughts about the dates. i created a little book to present to him on christmas morning.
SHHHHH!!! it is supposed to be a secret! i won’t even let him look at this post!
i found these mini folders at the teacher supply store. by binding them together i turned them into a book. i wanted a place to keep ticket stubs, notes and/or pictures, so i used Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue and glued the bottom of each of the folders together. when i give it to him some of the pockets will have gift certificates inside.
Aqua is the best option for making pockets because it dries clear and it dries completely…so no sticky residue that papers in the pocket would get stuck to.
i printed off descriptions of the dates in text boxes from a word document and used Tombow MONO Adhesive Dots to attach one to each of the folders/pockets.
this is the bare bones without too much embellishment, i may save that for later, or let the dates speak for themselves.
i found several of my ideas around the internet, so not all are original. but i thought i’d share some of the ones i have planned… *lunch @ Atlanta Bread Company to work out yearly budget – (i know…this is FUN one!)
*bucket of balls – driving range and donut holes from Krispy Kreme
*make calzones @ home and watch a movie
*dollar date – dollar store, dollar menu, dollar theatre
*movie theatre
*walk in the park with italian ice
*Gwinnet Braves baseball game well then, i’ll be giving for a whole year!
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