Well, I hope everyone has been enjoying their summer. In BC, we have been getting alot more grey days and rain than sunny ones these days, hopefully that will change soon but I hope it does`nt get too, too hot as I do not function really well when it does.
I really can`t believe that is July already, where has all the time gone, still though the changing time does bring lots of new things and wonderful things and today Canadians are celebrating Canada Day and I hope everyone across the country has a very happy and safe holiday. The US 4th of July is also coming up soon and I wish our American Friends all the best as well.
UPDATE: June's Top 3
I really enjoy visiting our entry blogs and seeing all the amazing projects, which I am sure you have guessed makes the job of choosing our Top 3 so very, very difficult. It was a really hard decision again but I did manage to choose my absolute favorites and here they are.
Honorable Mention
a very young budding artist
Today I am also very excited to announce that our Returning Guest Artist for this month is Michele Storms` of Ink from the Well. I am sure you all loved what Michele created for us the last time she was here and sure you are going to love the project she created for us this time just as much.
Michele`s project for this Month is a Beautiful Altered Harlequin Tin
I am delighted to be guest artist at the Doodle Artifacts challenge
blog again. It has been awhile since
I've altered an Altoids tin so that it what I chose to work with this
month. The trick to altering an Altoids
tin is lots of measuring, cutting and taking your time! I use the tin itself to trace onto designer
paper to get the correct sizes and then I carefully cut the papers and adhere
them with mod podge.
The next step is again about patience while the freshly glued lid and bottom dry. For the insides of the tin I still use the outside of my tin to trace the shape on paper but when I cut it out I cut a bit inside the traced line.
On the top of this tin I’ve used a
harlequin digital image and a lovely digital
sentiment, both by CS
designs. The designer paper, border, flowers and enamel dots are my
own stash items.
The bottom of the tin is covered in digital
paper also from CS designs, the "spiral diamond" design
which I printed on colored paper.
Although I carefully measured and cut various designer papers for the
outside and insides of the tin, the sides of the tin are covered in washi tape
-- very convenient as they are sized about right and stick well on their
own. Though I recommend using some Scor-tape
under the washi tape to help it stay put long term. I hope you will play along this month. I look forward to visiting your blogs and
seeing what you create!
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About Michele: I love love love to create and my favorite
thing is collage. Give me some pretty papers, some vintage images, some
stamps (digital or rubber) and laces and ribbons, inks and glue and I
am good to go. A fellow crafter encouraged me to start blogging in 2010
and since starting my blog art from the well I
have not looked back. Though card making is always a favorite activity
because they are easy to give away, blogging has gotten me to try many
other things from ATCs to “moos” to “twinchies” to art journals to
canvases and I’ve recently gotten interested in recycling, re-purposing
and reinventing so it is an extra pleasure to serve as guest designer
for the doodle artifacts blog! Participating in swaps and challenges
has helped me to grow as an artist. On the personal side I have a busy
day job, a husband and grown kids (a crotchety cat) as well as many
community activities that mean a lot to me. Creating things at my
kitchen table spot gives me joy. And since I love working with
beautiful images and products I’m honored to work with the wonderful
stamps from CS Designs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thank you Michele, what an inspiration and I`m so glad you included a how-to. You make it look so easy and I can`t wait to try this myself.
For all of those of you who would like to Visit Michele and see what else she has to say about her project, please visit her blog Art from the Well.
Hope everyone will go check it out and thank her for sharing such a beautiful project. Happy Creating everyone and look forward to seeing the wonderful things you have for us this month.
Special Note to All Our Previous Winners, Please Read ... I just noticed that all the winners badges with the codes to place them on winning sites, somehow went missing from our Winners Page. (I am guessing with the last page update) Sorry about that, they are all back now so if one of your projects was selected as either Top 3, Honorable Mention or Special Recognition and you have not claimed your badge, please go Our Winners Page and claim it now. :) Chris / CS Designs
