Altered Art(ish) Fun

Hi all, I thought I'd share a little bit of fun & useful altered art for you!

This month at The Crafting Cafe, the theme is

 Altered Art.

Firstly, may I apologise to this month's lovely sponsor Teri Sherman of 

Delicious Doodles 

 This particular item does not showcase any of her fabby images.

 Also, I must confess I didn't make this item but I just had to share it with you!

This is a catscraper, made by my beloved husband for our fur babies!

The design was originally inspired by the Chrysler Building! lol

I also have to confess, he didn't design it but he did create it from 

around 10 recycled/upcycled cardboard boxes.

If you'd like to make one of these little beauties for your furry friends

you'll find instuctions and templates here!

I hope you like this project & I hope you can join our 

"Altered Art" challenge this month!

Don't foget we are looking for some new DT members to join our fun team.

If you're interested, just add DT after your name when you link up your

Altered Art project!

Thanks for popping by!

Top Tip Tuesday #4 Recycling

An oldie but a goodie in this quickie post! 

Rather than go to the expense of buying low tack tape just use regular sticky tape 

which has already been used (recycling) or stick it to your clothes to pick up a few fibres

until it's a bit less sticky! 

Use to pick up peel offs, rub over with an embossing tool or similar to pick up and then apply to your project in the same manner. 

Great for positive & negative images(recycling waste)! 

I have used this for many different different things!

Make sure you stop by Top Tip Tuesday to see all the other great crafting tips! 

You may also have one of your own you'd like to share!

ATCs

Hi all,
Been a bit busy so not managed much crafting this week!
We're off on holidays at the end of next week so I'm looking forward to that!
Thought I'd share some little ATCs with you today!

Firstly the ones I gave you a sneak peak of earlier, for the swap over at 

Ali's ATC Swap Stop

There's just about still time if you want to join in!

The theme was TV or Movies and she asked for 4 ATCs

Here's a closer look

Bart Simpson my DH's fav.

I decoupaged this image (found on a wallpaper sample) which I've had around for a while!

 I've had the film strip peel offs for ages too but just never  knew quite what to do with them till now!

Scoobydoo, My BIL's fav

I made up party inviitations for my BIL & SIL using this image from the internet 

they absolutely loved them so wanted to use it for this too!

Pink Panther, My SIL's fav!

Love his eyebrows!

Garfield I just love him!

Winnie & friends!

Thanks for looking, I hope you like them!

Hmmm wait a mo, did I count wrong???? lol!!!

Secondly the October swaps for Cardmaking Downloads Forum

This months theme is recycled! 

I could have made loads on this theme but only needed three!

Here they are all ready to go in the envie to be posted off!

I tried to use as much recycled material as I could for these!

The base cards are a recycled birthday card from last year!

Here's a closer look

Crafting time, a recycled watch and the paper is the recycled insert from the card!

This is a recycled cycling map of our area.

 I wasn't sure about this one but my OH thought it was great so I decided to keep it in! 

We live top right as you look at it!

Used distress inks and whispers markers on it too!

Three little birds! 

Again recycled birthday card from last year and a foam circle from Easter Bunnies. 

Used chalks for the background and promarker for the shadow under the birds!

Took this pic just befoe I put them in the envie! 

Can I see a little something extra there?????