3" x 3" Purple Page

And finally . . . I just finished these today and they are going into the mail to my fellow swappers on Monday . . . my PURPLE PAGES! I just love this image and had to use her. I glued old phone book pages to card stock, then covered them with many different purple inks. After that, I stamped a diamond pattern with silver pigment ink over the top. . . .letting it dry overnight. I then adhered my girl (Violet, I like to call her ;-) ) on top. I just had to embellish Violet's hair with a little gem and voila! Oh . . . .almost forgot . . . there is a tab on the edge. I just got a tab punch (Stampin' Up!) and had to use it.

My Green 3" x 3" Page

Here is my green page. Okay, this one was a little more involved. I first altered green paper by using Elmer's Glue dabbed on. I let that dry overnight. Then, using Ranger Distressing Inks, I covered the background with many different colors. Over the top I used Stampin' Up! ink (Forest Green). . . . THEN I tore paper from an old butterfly book. After that I cut butterfly images and adhered them on. The antenna were too delicate to cut out so I drew them on with a fine tip black sharpie. This was a fun page to help get me through this loooooonnnngggg New England winter! Think Spring!

3" x 3" Green Mini Book

This is the cover of my Mini GREEN book . . . I used some inchies (1" square altered art bits) and adhered them onto the front. The background is a great green leaf print from the cover page of an old, old book. I have been hanging onto it for a long time now for the PERFECT place to use it. I then stamped the word GREEN on the bottom.

3" x 3" Romance Mini Book Cover

This is the cover for the first 3" x 3" that we did. I stamped in silver ink on black cardstock using a stamp with romance definations on it. Then I added this altered bottle cap I received as a thank you gift from a swap I am cohosting. I love the way it turned out!

3" x 3" Mini Books

In one of the great art groups that I belong to, we are swapping out 3" x 3" pages for a mini book. The first set we did was themed Romance (that was for February . . . .get it . . .. Valentine's Day!) . Well, this just got to be soooooo much fun and a second theme was announced . . ..GREEN (that was for March . . .get it . .. St. Patty's Day!) . THEN, just because we couldn't stand NOT getting mail every day . . . there was yet another announced: PURPLE (that was for . . . .well . . . maybe Easter, perhaps?). We are just getting started! I have a feeling this monthly swap will be going on for a while! It is FUN, FUN, FUN!

Anywho, here are some pictures from these swaps. Enjoy and I hope you are inspired!