Category Archives: altered art obsession

Pages 4/11/12

This was a weird little picture that came out of altering a magazine image. Almost spooks me out. Well, wait … yeah it spooks me out. I covered this with a wash of acrylic paint, and then went back in with portfolio pastels and more full strength acrylic paints. I ran this through the Zyron […]

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Pages 01/24/09

Hi everyone, I must apologize for not being around over the past few weeks. Work got crazy busy for me and I wasn’t able to do much art! I have a couple swaps I am involved in so I am posting one of the collages I made for Alerted Art Obsession Yahoo Group 5X5 Hearts […]

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Pages 03/18/08

Last weekend I got a big old jar of broken jewelry at a second hand store for a deal. Score! It was perfect for a swap which was coming up. I cleaned all the pieces in my new super sonic jewelry cleaner, then broke them apart and repurposed them as charms. I got a chance […]

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Pages 03/14/08

I got my ‘Chunky Love ATC Book ‘back a few days ago and it’s REALLY cool. This was a swap I was in with the Altered Art Obsession Yahoo Group. I grabbed these photos of it off of one of the other participant’s blogs because they were quite nice. (These are from Tejae’s blog.) I’ll […]

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Pages 02/28/08

Since we didn’t have as many signups for the Shipwreck Swap, I had to quickly come up with a bunch more cards so the 5 participants didn’t get the same card. lol. The front has a small plastic mirror and a vintage photo which I manipulated in Photoshop to make it look like it was […]

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Pages 02/23/08

This is a piece I’ve just finished for the Altered Art Obsession Yahoo Group. It’s one of 10 pieces I made for the swap. The theme is ‘Shipwreck’. The swap hostess is going to make tiny little treasure chests, alter them and inside will have all the artwork from the participants. It sounded like a […]

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Pages 06/27/07

I’ve been decorating bamboo tile beads and using them in crafty things. The beads are drilled in an odd place so it’s rather dificult to use them. I outputted a Day of the Dead image onto clear paper and transferred it to the bead. I’ve sealed it with many layers of protective varnish to give […]

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Pages 06/23/07

I recently made this collage for a swap I joined up for on the Altered Art Obsession Yahoo group. This was an open themed digital collage ATC swap. It was the first time I’ve really done this type of swap, which is strange because, I do digital collage every day in my job as a […]

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