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Bella Nella Altered and Papercrafts

Scrapbooking, altered & paper arts from a self taught artist. Love vintage, shabby chic styles, vintage photos, trash to treasure and antiquing.

This and That

Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 11:57 in Wedding, collage, lace, repurpose, paper arts, paper flowers

I have been busy with the online altered book class I'm taking, and an art doll swap. I have learned many new techniques for the altered book and I never made art dolls, so its been challenging as well as fun. I'll post some photos soon. And the...
Dance Cards and Antiques

Posted on Sunday April 5th, 2009 at 18:44 in books, vintage, collage, mixed media, antique, swap, paper arts, dance cards

Finds at a small/crowded antique shop at the Green Dragon flea market and auction25c buttons for 75c. Oh well, they're sweeeet!Adorable mini book. I'm currently working on a children's fairy tales altered books so I especially love finding this one...
Christmas Tags & Charms

Posted on Saturday December 13th, 2008 at 13:16 in metal, collage, christmas, victorian, charms, christmas decorations

Hi everyone -- Here are some other tags I've made for our Christmas tree. I'm having fun doing these although for a while I wasn't motivated to make anything. I love using the mixed media. Here are the first ones I posted.For this second one, I us...