Altered Puzzle Challenge - Finale!

Ever since we finished the Altered Puzzle Challenge on my Facebook group

I have been wanting to do something with my puzzle. At the point where we finished it wasn't all attached, I just put the pieces together and left them.

I finally got around to glueing those pieces together. I simply used E6000 for this

I applied the glue around the edges and smooshed them together, I did all of this on my craft sheet so that the excess would not stick to anything

I used various object to set on top of my puzzle while it was drying, just to keep the pieces flatter
I let my puzzle dry overnight

Here is what my puzzle looks like when all glued and dried.

I just love it, I decided to hang it in my house using an antique hanger

Let's see what you all have done with your puzzles!!!
Thanks for coming by and sharing this with me.
Cheers!!!

Altered Puzzle Week 10

Welcome back to the blog today,  we are onto week 10 of the Altered Puzzle Challenge

If your following along or if your new, here are the links to the previous weeks challenges....

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

Our Facebook group is here:

Facebook Group

This week I'm going to combine the two pieces to make one large collaborative piece. 

For starters I took some versamark, clear embossing powder and a background stamp

Simply apply the versamark over the entire background stamp, stamp onto the puzzle piece, pour the clear embossing powder over the pieces and heat set.

For this step I kept the two pieces put together

Your pieces should look something like this now

You can see the shiny embossing on the background

Next I'm going to apply three different colors of inks with a distress tool

Color one:

Color two:

and color three:

As you can tell I like the brights, you can use whatever colors you like

Next I stamped my image (from Stampotique by artist Jo Capper-Sandon)

and I also used a image that my friend Terri Richardson had drawn for me (the flower in her hair) 

colored them with copic markers and cut them out. 

This image is going to sit right in the middle of my pieces 

I then picked out a phrase from one of my Tim Holtz stamp sets and stamped it twice onto card stock

Stamped twice so I could cut out the words

I cut it out and edged with black marker

I then decided to add some small bee and dragonfly buttons but the buttons have a rounded back so I took my Tim Holtz Tonic scissors and cut the back off so they would be flat and easy to adhere to my pieces

After all was put together here is what my pieces look like now

I really love how these came out, one of my favorite pieces now.

Enjoy your week and have fun creating and thanks for following along.

CHEERS!!!!