eclectic Paperie October Get Altered Challege ~ Love, Hope, Dream

The eclectic Paperie Get Altered Challenge is about exploring your creative journey, about stepping outside of your comfort zone, experimenting with new products, and creating altered and mixed media art.  

We want to see your work and hear about your inspiration!

All of those who play along with our challenge will be entered into a prize drawing for a $15.00 gift certificate to the eclectic Paperie store.

So grab your supplies and play along! 

Go to eP Challenge site to read everything you need to know about the Get Altered Challenge.

Here is MY altered box:

It started out as a plain box shaped like a book that I altered to make BEAUTIFUL!  I plan on putting treasured photographs in it.

I fell in LOVE with this graffiti Creative Soul stamp the minute I saw it!  I thought she would be Perfect on the cover of my Treasure book.

 made flowers with my new Prima Gebera Daisy Stencil which I made with Wendy Vecchi embossing paste and painted with Golden paint.

For the spine of the book I use hot pink tissue from Victoria's Secret (never throw anything away! I stamped Love from my Catherine Scanlon Journal Words Stamp Set onto a piece of deli paper and adhered it to the book.

On th back (and front, too) I collaged papers from an Authentique Cherish 6 x 6 paper pad along with Tim Holtz Terminology tissue wrap.  I used another Journal stamp and finished it off with another Prima Gerbera Daisy and then MY personal FAV, this Studio 490 Barcode Stencil that say I Made This!  How FAB is this stencil!?!?!

I wanted it to look like the edges on the page were gold so I applied embossing paste and then ran a comb along it to make the "pages" which I then painted with gold paint.  LOVE how it turned out!

 covered the inside with more tissue wrap.  Here you can see my treasured wedding photo from 25 years ago!

And in case you forgot, this is the end result

Now for some of the process:

Collaged front cover with the girl stamped on deli paper which I mod podged on.

Page edges with embossing paste and the comb I used to make the "pages."

Paper collaged back cover that I distressed.

Tissue for book spine.

Are you still with me?
I honestly had so much FUN making this altered book!
Go check out what the other members of the eP Design Team made to inspire you and then come show us your creation!  We'd LOVE to come visit you plus there's a prize!  A gift certificate to the FABULOUS eclectic Paperie Shop!