creating

I love to create, I'm often working on something, it helps to keep me inspired and creative... any given day I can be creating something (I often make my husband roll his eyes!!)... Thought I'd start to share some of the things I do from time to time. Last year, I was in a club at Colorful Creations in Hyannis, which by the way, is a super store, everything you could ever need to create amazing scrapbooks, and so much more, cool papers, great stamps, you get the idea, if you haven't been, you so should... anyway, I digress! One of the projects was to create a mini album (well, okay, 6 mini albums all the same), and as I'm totally addicted to Eclipse mints, I used my collection of tins to create my mini-albums... (I don't feel guilty about the mints not being environmentally friendly because I make cool art out of them!) My albums were less about the albums and more about the storage of the albums, although my sample I brought was a fun little flip book of Adriana doing the hula hoop (another post perhaps!)...

I used alcohol inks to cover the Eclipse tins, and then added beads of Fimo clay I had stamped with some of my fab stamps prior to baking, a few beads, a bit of funky yarn, some ripped pieces from an old dictionary & an old music book, and voila! a mini album... People often ask me what altered art is when I tell them a lot of what I do is that, this is a perfect example!