alteredartist

I love creating altered art, ATCs, and ACEOs. I've been an artist for 20+ years and finally, my heart was taken with ATCs. I love making them, sending them, trading them. I love to collect items to use on ATCs. I am also a digital artist and love making ATC backgrounds for people. You'll make a good friend with me...I always send extras! One can never have too many artistic friends. I am very earthy and natural, but at the same time I love fantasy items, glitter, etc. Right now, I'm infatuated with birds nests and vintage bird images, word images, vintage children/people, wings, and hats images. I make handmade greeting cards, as well as everything listed above, and I also paint and make jewlery! I have tons of charms I love to share and use. I get on these kicks, and lately I've been making a lot of digital ephemera showcasing cupcakes, pattisserie sweets, chocolates, coffees, etc. Hey, who doesn't have a sweet-tooth? lol The cool thing about my digital backgrounds is that I print them at a high dpi for crystal clarity, and you can always add soemthing to them to make them your own! It's more like I'm sharing digital ephemera rather than sending a completed ATC. However, when in a trade or swap for a finished ATC, I always send completed work. (I just wanted to share a little example of things I create). I look forward to getting to know some new friends with the same likes as me! Let's trade!!

I LOVE BUTTERFLIES! Harry Potter anything, stickers, scrapbook stickers, 3-d flower stickers, pretty stickers, used bookmarks with pretty images on them, microscope slides, copper tape, glass tiles, scrabbletiles, bamboo tiles, ball chain in all colors, digital collage sheets in wings/children/vintage, copic markers, vintage postcards with writing on it, stamps, rubber stamps and ink pads, STICKLES paints are my favorites, tickets, angels, fairies, halloween,atc blanks in different colors/thickness,omni gel,charms,labels in fancy shapes, my favorite color is orange in different shads, but I also love pink, yellow, green, purple, feathers, anything Marie Antoinette related, cupcake images, french sweets, french handwriting, DIY books on art stuff, kits, cards, envelopes, paper bags (small), doilies, mermaid related items, digital art programs, good printing paper, handmade journals, handmade photo albums, handmade ATC to trade with me, anything Italian, especially Nougat Candies!!!!, ephemera images with birds - nests - birdhouses, etc, decent sized fabric scraps, quality craft and collage glue, which to this day I am still not sure exists. lol I'm sure there's tons more, I'll edit later.

I love love love Neil Young, Rush, Eagles, pretty much all rock and roll. I have a secret crush on Eddie Vedder, even though I only like a few of Pearl Jam's songs.... he is just the cutest. I have very mixed musical tastes. I love rock and roll, but will often sit and listen to classical all day long, some operas, a little funk, but never techno... that is a migraine waiting to happen. I am a huge Sopranos fan, so any Italian music is awesome, although my collection is extremely limited. I lost my Dean Martin CD and almost cried.

For a long time I had an Etsy store and also sold on ebay, but the hassle wasn't worth it. I created digital collage sheets and for the low price I was selling them for, they were barely worth listing. I still make them and now just give them away and use them myself for ATC backgrounds, etc. If you're looking for anything particular, drop me a line, I might have what you want and am willing to share for free. :)