Gypsy ATCs

For April in my CollageATCs group, the theme was gypsy. I had a horribly hard time with this theme. Finally I looked through the clip art on my computer and found some images that were supposed to be gypsies anyway, so I printed them out and added to them.
Starting on the top left I added purple mulberry paper and then covered it in glitter, the piece from the package is the trim on the right side. For the girl in the middle, I colored her dress and the pieces from the package are the brown sequins and the black gems in the middle of them. For the lady on the right, I cut her out, added her to a background and then colored here with chalk and added the pink beads, feather and gems all from the package. For the lady on the bottom, I cut her out, glued her to a piece of mulberry paper, colored her with chalk and added the red gems and red flower from the packet.
I think they turned out pretty good.

Altered Bottle

First let me warn you, I'm going to have at least 3 posts on here soon, I have 3 different things to post and since I am so bad at arranging pictures, I figured it was easier to do them separately.
So, first things first, this is about the close-up picture I posted the other day.
It started out as a plain brown bottle measuring 7.5 " tall by 3" wide by 2" deep. It looked like this:
Then I decided to apply dictionary pages to it:

And it sat covered in paper for a couple months.

Next I painted it with a watered down moss green acrylic paint, and brushed Pearl Ex turqouise powder over the top and sealed it with Mod Podge. I then hot glued crushed shells to the top around the lip of it. Next I hot glued a piece of lace around it and added a couple buttons.

Here's what it looks like now:

And the back:

It looks more blue in the pictures, in real life it looks more aqua colored.

Surprise

Just a sneak peak of something I finished today that I REALLY like.
Unfortunately I have to go to work now, so I'll put the pictures of the whole thing up later along with my Gypsy ATCs.

Stay tuned!

Day 9 - Easter

Day 9 was from Monique (she's not a blogger)
She made us beautiful pins. I'm planning on wearing mine today, I just have to find something nice to put it on.

Thank you to Amy for hosting this swap. I would love to do another in the future. It was a lot of fun!

Day 8

There was no Day 7, as that person got sick.
Here's Day 8 from Sarah at Mama Bubbles.Very cute card, the chick is a piece of fabric.
And here is what's inside, a cute chick 'basket'. It is very cute, I'm not sure exactly what I'll do with it, but it's definitely going with my Easter decorations.

Tomorrow's the last day.

Day 6

Wanda of The Rat's Pajamas created Day 6 for us:
Inside was a cute little basket made from beads and safety pins, and in the basket was a Lindt chocolate bunny.

Thank you Wanda!

Day 5

Day 5 was from Michelle at The Tattered Quilt Cottage, here's the outer packaging:
And inside was this cute ornament(?). I don't know exactly what it is, but it's really cute.

Thank you Michelle!