ALTERED PUMPKIN

Hi Everyone!

Today I'm sharing a pumpkin that I had started last year before Halloween, but didn't finish it so I put it away.  I had forgotten all about it until I went to get my Halloween decorations out this year, and there it was, so I thought I should probably finish it.  I'm sure I wasn't planning on finishing it the way I did. I've noticed that on lots of my projects that I don't like or finish, if I put them away (not usually for a whole year lol), when I go back to them, I have another idea and I'm actually glad that waited to finish them.  I'm really glad that I waited, because I'm very happy with how it turned out!  Let me know what you think?

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Recipe:  Plastic pumpkin

Card stock cut into diamonds and put on with modpodge

Sanding and various inks to make it look distressed

Flowers from Michaels that were orange & yellow (very boring), so I used various Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks, ink pads & black paint to jazz them up. Used hot glue (black by MS) to adhere them.

Paper clay that I  added lots of black paint to, made base at the top & the stem, which after drying I put a few coats of black paint on.

I twisted different colors of 22 gage "Fun Wire" and added them to the base of the clay so they would be secure once the paper clay had dried.

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Altered Journal

This is a Journal I altered a while back for my bff.  I wanted something to go with the butterfly and peace card I made for her.  I specifically wanted a journal with dividers and the only one I could find was really ugly, so I took the covers off and decided to make my own.  I don't have a bind it all, so I cut the chipboard out from my Cricut and used a hole punch to thread the wire back through.  Let's just say that before this project I wanted a bind it all, but after making this, I reeeealllly want one now!!!!!!  I hope you like it.

I don't know if you can all the cards, but some of them are really funny!  For some strange reason some of my photos are missing, I would click on a picture and then it would bring up one I had already posted. Strange....wish I knew more about this stuff.  Anyway, everything I used except for the "n" and the ribbon was from the Unwritten collection from Reminisce, which I got from http://www.acherryontop.com/  . The "n" is Tim Holtz Letter Grunge board that I just painted with acrylic paints,added the ribbon for some more pizazz.

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