Showing posts with label Altered Pages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Altered Pages. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Color of Money with Gingersnap Creations

Gingersnap Creations has put a little spin on the color challenge this month.... our new challenge is GC108: Color of Money.  Take your inspiration from the colors of currency - from your own country or abroad!  For my challenge piece, I couldn't resist dressing up this little Character Constructions gal in some fabulous blue digital currency from Altered Pages - Foreign Currency.  I made her dress by cutting out several of the same Franc image and layering it like ruffles.  Her bodice was also paper pieced from the bill, and I also made her a fashionable hat.  Of course, she had to be wearing lots of bling as well.  I found the quote online, by.... can you believe it...... Bo Derek!  Remember her - the perfect "10"?  For the background, I stamped lots of things to shop for (dresses, shoes, handbags, sunglasses) randomly over green paper that reminded me of our own currency here in the US.  Some Copics, some distress inks, and some bling added on..... of course. :)

Hope you get a chance to play along!  I'm back from the beach (Topsail Island, NC) but still finishing up that backlog of work from any vacation.... laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, laundry, and oh... did I mention laundry???  Will be crafty soon.... and... I just might have a wee bit of candy in the near future.  I think it's about time for some more, don't you? ;)

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Bags and Tags with Gingersnap Creations

A little bit of fun and funky today, with a new challenge from Gingersnap Creations: Bags and Tags.  Our overall theme this month is "At the Mall", and we've also been doing some recycling/repurposing, so for my bag and tag I recycled from our latest mall trip.  I took a small square-ish bag from American Eagle and covered it with images from Altered Pages' Fashion Ladies collage sheet.  I printed out the sheet twice on regular paper, cut apart the vintage sewing pattern images, and inked them up with distress inks.  Then I collaged them onto the bag, along with some of the fashion phrases from the sheet.  The tag is also from an item of clothing (one of my daughter's - her clothes have the best tags!), on top of which I added a fashion lady image from The Artistic Stamper's Twenties' Ladies Plate 4.  A sentiment from CHF and a little bling, and you have a gift bag for a tweenie girl!

We're at the beach this week, so this is probably it for my crafty postings for a while.  I'm hoping to have lots of time to visit all of your gorgeous blogs! :)  Until next time....