Better Living Through Scrapbooking's FIRST Bloghop!!

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Do not pass Go....blah blah blah

Instead go to the FIRST STOP

If you are here from Chelsea's blog.....welcome.

This is supposed to be about us, so here goes.
This is a page from my art journal.

It says a little bit about some of the things I love.
(Just click on it to see it a reasonable size)



Ingredients:
Plaid paints: Folk Art metallic Rose, metallic Plum, metallic Blue Pearl
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist : Key Lime Pie
Bombshell Stamps: Rose's Portrait, Sacred Heart
Dove of the East stamps: India
Paper Make-up Stamps: Caffeine Trip
Gauche Alchemy: Wholly Sheets
Graphic 45: Hallowe'en in Wonderland, Transatlantique
Prima: flowers

Not only will many of our blog hop participants be offering
RAKs on their blogs during the hop,
but Plaid is giving away a HUGE grand prize package to one lucky hopper

You must leave your comments by Saturday, October 2nd to be eligible for the Plaid prize
I am offering a RAK at this blog,
so make sure you leave contact info,
or better yet become a follower!

So now, you need to visit.....KIM

Woo Hoo Bombshell Humpday Hop - Altered Style !!

Welcome!

At Bombshell Stamps we have a few different challenges going on,

so stop and check them out!

HERE

There is a great Sketch Challenge

and a Valentine's Day Challenge

and today we are doing our

Altered Item Hop

There are so many great blogs for you to check out.

My items is a Valentine's Day inspired altered item.

I started with a Whitman's sampler box. (chocolate....Valentine's Day....)

I removed the paper around the whole box, so that the new paper would adhere.

I covered it with Heidi Grace/Fiskars paper that I picked up at Big Lots.

The paper was $1 for each pack of 15 sheets.

What a deal!  The polka dot paper is flocked and shimmery.

The flowered paper is shimmered and foiled.

The lace is some vintage lace I already had and the buttons were removed from an old shirt.

The leaves are from a fall garland purchased last year.

I used beige Prima flowers with brass snap eyelets in the center.

I added a wedding ribbon and string of pearls near the bottom.

The green rectangle strip was made using the Martha Stewart doily punch along both sides.

The large green scalloped circle was made using a Paper Shapers punch.

The large stamps is from the Bombshell stamps set 'Til Death

The sentiment at the bottom is also from that set.

They are edged with Tim Holtz distressing ink around the edges.

The bird and banner are colored with Copic markers and colored pencils.

I had a lot of fun making this and I am reminded that Bombshell Stamps can be so versatile.

OK, enough of mine....go check out all the other great altered items.

Oh, I forgot.....there are even prizes available, in addition to all the great mojo you are going to get!

Angela
Sy
Alyssa
Katie
Kathi
Keely
Gabby
Steph
Kelli
Miss Magoo
Lina