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All aboard for the circus altered art train
Ladies and Gents–step right up because Cirq Alpha is coming to town! Loaded with spellbinding stars and breathtaking beasts, Paper Calliope’s circus train is sure to dazzle and delight you. Step up...
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And they called it puppy love
This project takes whiskers to a whole new level. To show off our new puppy in an adorable DIY frame, I combined my love for vintage products*, with some fantastic Whisker Graphics products....
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Make a vintage cell phone charging station
Remember when we relied on those massive directories to look up addresses and telephone numbers? Now they are pretty much a thing of the past, which–drumroll please–makes them vintage! That’s why I...
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I only have (dragon) eyes for you
With Halloween coming, all the witches and wizards need to make sure they are amply supplied with toes of frog and eyes of dragons (sorry Mr. Shakespeare). I got busy in my studio and brewed up this...
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Adding some color into winter days
When the beautiful colors of fall have disappeared, the scenery can get sometimes pretty stark up here in the Northland. I try to add as much color as possible indoors and out to my winter days....
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Under the Mixed Media Big Top
Canvas Corp will soon be publishing a plethora of 4 x 4 canvases, uniquely created by each of their design team members. Since the canvases are supposed to reflect the designers in some way, I...
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Hocus Pocus-Altered Art Houdini Trunk
Abracadabra. Alakazam! Despite his magic prowess, I’m sure Houdini still had to cart his stuff around from show to show. As I was snooping around the Alpha Stamps shop last year, I saw their steamer...
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Sorting Valentines at the Postal Station
Hello! After serving as a guest designer for a couple years, I could not resist making the leap to joining the official educator team team in 2017. The opportunity to work with so many talented...
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt’s statement, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams,” is so powerful in my life right now that it inspired me to make this mixed media piece. While...
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Turn an Altoid tin into a spooky mini album for Halloween
Spooky things come in small packages. Take for example this Altoid tin that I altered into a Halloween mini album. I just love how the spider casts his shadow over the baby doll. The raven must have...
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