we can rebuild him — we have the technology

Remember that old line from The Six Million Dollar Man? Well, I've been re-building in a sense, anway. Or maybe it would be more appropriate to say I've been "re-working". Yup, ever since the new Graphic 45 papers hit my doorstep, I've been altering stuff. And I've got plans to alter more.

I have not done a whole lot of altering in my crafty life. There have been the occasional cigar box and product package, but honestly I'd rather re-finish a piece of furniture. Not sure why that is, but there you go. Anyway, something about the G45 papers has got me all het up about altering. I'm sure being in the G45 booth at CHA may have had a little to do with that.

Suddently I'm itching to remove all the floral wallpaper from inside my scrapdesk hutch and replace it with G45's Fashionista. That's actually a bit ambitious for me right now considering it *IS* time to work on taxes (again!) But in the meantime, I've done some small projects that were so fun. First I started work on a little caddy. Before the paint was dry enough to add paper to it, I spyed with my little eye this box in my desk hutch. I store vintage stamps in this and it is the perfect container except that I've never really cared for the dark plaid. So, I leafed thru my G45 papers and lo-and-behold there is a nice bright red plaid that would be perfect. What the heck the paint brush was still dirty from the caddy project, so I painted just the edges of the little storage box (in case the box edges weren't absolutely straight --and they never are-- the black would disguise where the paper didn't reach the trim.)


Here is the finished project. I love my little box even more now! The funny thing is I like how this box turned out more than the caddy I was working on -lol. (I'll post a pic of the caddy after I take one.)

m is for...

Well, M is a lot of things, but in this case M is mostly Michelle. This is a journal I recently altered. I thought it would be fun to put a monogram "M" initial for its owner and then think of other words that the might suit a scrapbooker's journal. (Click on a the photo for a closer view of what words I ended up with).

This technique would be fun on a layout too either framing a photo, or even an embellishment like I've done here with the monogram letter. You could use it on a tag or do a series of deco shapes with various words using the "theme" letter. The possibilities go on and on.

melissa frances!

I really, really, really love Melissa Frances products, so it was a delight to meet her in person today. She is a cancer survivor and has been doing some awesome things in behalf of cancer research including designing her "Thankful" line (a portion of proceeds to to cancer research). She also had a couple of wonderfully altered bras from a contest (I think). She mentioned that more would be posted on the Melissa Frances blog later in the week. Here's a peek at the two I saw:

"B" cup

Singapore Sling

Aren't these too fun?