Altered Puzzle Week 13 - The Last Pieces

Hello and welcome back to the blog today. This is the week 13 post for the Altered Puzzle Challenge and the last post. Can you believe it's already the last post of this challenge? Wow! Suggestions on what we should do next?? Let me know int he comments section.

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12

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This week I'm doing some simple but fun pieces

To begin I used Tim Holtz distress paints and spread a few colors on my craft mat... I then spritzed with water and ran my two pieces through the colors

Doing this gives a marbled effect to my backgrounds, it's beautiful, I set those aside to dry completely

Next I took a die cut leaf and my puzzle piece and distressed the edges with some brown archival ink

I stamped the background with a stamp called Seaweed by artist Jo-Capper Sandon and stamped that onto my background.....
I then used a stamp called Reggie by artist Daniel Torrente, stamped and colored him and added him to my background along with my leaf
(both stamps from Stampotique Originals)

I used these little beads called Mini Prills to the bottom of my puzzle piece to imitate sand at the bottom of the sea

I used glossy accents as a glue for this and applied it to the bottom of my piece

I then dropped the "Prills" on top of the glue

Lastly I went around the edges with my Copper pen

 This is my first finished piece, I love those little pills on the bottom, they are so fun

For my next piece I used a couple of stamps from Stampotique as well, these are from the New August release 
One is called - Agatha Flower and the other is Agatha's Watering Can both are by artist Magda Polakow

I simply stamped them, colored and cut them out and glued them on (simple)

I used Distress Glitter in the middle of my flower to make it shine, I applied glossy accents as my glue and sprinkled the glitter onto the flower

Here are both pieces together

and here is the final completed puzzle

and close ups of each side

I have a secret to share with you, remember this piece from week 10? It was a piece that I had done complete as one piece
Well if you look at it closely, I accidentally created the piece upside down. The edge is on the left here and it should be on the right.... Want to know how I fixed it?

My friend Terri Richardson and I brainstormed and she came up with the idea to separate the cardboard top from the bottom
I used my Xacto knife and did just that... you can see here that I flipped the cardboard bottom around

Here I put the top decorated piece over the cardboard piece to see what I need to do to fix it and make the two pieces look right

I ended up decorated potions of the cardboard piece, like the rounded potion on the left, to match my top
Here you can see the top and bottom together after I colored the bottom cardboard piece

Next I glued the top piece to the bottom cardboard piece and cut around the edges to make it look like a piece that was always correct.
In the following photo if you look closely you can see how I had to make adjustments and cut the pieces. The edge is now on the left side of the piece, like it should be

So the piece went from this (upside-down)

To this

Here is the corrected piece in my puzzle

Pretty cool right? Thanks to my friend Terri for the suggestion!! 

Thanks everyone so much for joining me in this challenge, I really hope you had as much fun as I have with this. 

I'm so excited about my finished puzzle, I just love it!! 

I cannot wait to see your final puzzles. 

CHEERS!!!!

Altered Puzzle Challenge Week 8

Hello and welcome back to another week of the Altered Puzzle Challenge. 

For those of you who had the same size puzzle as I did we are going to be starting row 3 of our puzzles this week and pieces 13 and 14

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Our Facebook group is here:

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For my first piece this week, I am going to take metal tape (bought at the hardware store in the plumbing section) and I am going to emboss two strips of it with an embossing folder.

Why two strips? Because in order to cover the entire puzzle piece I need two pieces of the tape

Once embossed, I used distress paint in two colors over the metal tape, I set that aside to dry completely

Once dry, I used my mini sanding tool to go over the top in order to scrape some of the paint off, giving the tape a distressed look

I then used ink and went over the top as well, giving it even more of a distressed look

I then taped the pieces to my puzzle piece and trimmed the edges

I then grabbed some corrugated cardboard and tore a piece to use

I used two colors of ink to distress it a bit

I then added my cardboard and trimmed

I then punched a hole in one end of my piece and added this Tim Holtz hitch fastener

Next I used some more of Tim Holtz ideology products and added a color of distress paint 

I am going to hang the "dream" from the hitch

Here is my finished first puzzle piece

For my next piece I went really simple and added some color with DecoArt spray media misters

Next I stamped the swirl with a stamp and simply wrote my sentiment. First I wrote it with black and didn't like it so I wrote it over with my white gel pen

Here is my finished 2nd piece

and here are my pieces together 

and here are my pieces together with my puzzle

Have fun this week, I hope you enjoy the pieces. 

CHEERS!!!