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Inspirational offerings for the altered art, mixed media, collage and paper artist in you!  Welcome to Shabby Cottage Studio   We're nestled high in the mountains of beautiful Tennessee.  Our shabby cottage has a squeaky screen door, a wide porch and a comfy porch swing. So go ahead, take a moment for yourself, you deserve it! Grab a cup of tea.  And look around.  My wish is that here you find a spark for your Creative Muse and my hope is that I offer inspiration to let the Artist within you fly! Thanks so much for stopping by the Cottage!  Please, come back anytime, as you never know what I will find to lift the wings of YOUR possibilites!                                  Gails Artwork Video (Click on image) New Tag Designs These tags are approximatley 2.5" x 4" and ready to go as is or ready for you to embellish!  As always our sheets are available as digital download for those who love U-Print and already printed for those of you who prefer them printed for you. Cut them out and go to town creating! (images are clickable) Two New Large Large Format Designs Violetta and Birdcage    Customer Inspiration I love showing off what our customers have done with Shabby Cottage Studio products!  Kathleen Holley sent me these three images to show what she had created with our Collage Sheets.  In the first image, with the exception of the lotus flower, she used all images from our Asian Potpourri sheet.  The next two depict images from our Fairy World sheet. Thank you Kathleen!  Wonderful work!     New Designs A new paper called Marie, and two large format Digital Downloads...Eiffel Tower and French Tea Time (click images)                                             Couture    Customer Inspiration This Shadowbox Ballerina was a commissioned piece created by Cindy Craig.  I wish Cindy had a site I could link you to but alas, at this time in date Miss Cindy does not (hint hint Cindy).The Ballerina is one of a  kind handsculpted from polymer clay, no molds what so ever are used, she started from a lump of clay.  I'm impressed aren't you?  Cindy used two of our Decorative Papers, Black Damask and Nuawlins, in her background...thank you Cindy!     Aren't these canvas bags wonderful?!  The talented and lovely ladies at Piper Bags have all sort of designs for their bags.  I'm honored that they chose to use two of our new Large format designs French Bird and Hotel De L Opera to be part of all their lovliness!  Thank you Judy and Natalie! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW DESIGNS ADDED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW!  Single Image Digital Downloads in  large format!  I'm excited about this new offering!  These large images are just as sharp and clear as our regular collage sheet images.  You can also resize them smaller and they still print beautifully!  The possibiliites this opens up has my head spinning.  Check out one of our image descriptions where I have listed some of the ideas I have for you  in how you can use these images.  Right now we have a baker's dozen different designs with more in the works and coming soon.  This is a category that will continue to grow.   Here are some of the designs available.             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   New from the Studio Workroom NEW Collage Sheets Altered Diva's 9 and 10 Romantic Birds Tags Collage Sheet These make beautiful gift tags!   We're ready for your Spring projects!  We've restocked old and brought in new !  My head is spinning with possibilities! You can find these in our What's New  page (where there is more) or click each individual image. Collage Sheets Sweet~Hearts and Altered ATC Backgrounds 1 (images are clickable) All Collage Sheets are available in a printed  and digital formats     Decorative Papers Hotel De L'Opera and Rue Du Opera  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our New Collage Sheets! (images are clickable)  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  I love this color of  Glimmer Mist.  It is called Seafoam.  I love it so much for some reason I over ordered it by accident. I think it was a backorder combined with a new order that did me in. ;-)  So I've put it on sale!  While quanitities last you can purchase it for $3.99!  If you've been wanting to try Glimmer Mist now is the time to do it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  We're getting rusty again! (images are clickable) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  I was in a French mood when I created these two new Collage Sheets! Vive La France and Wings in French (images are clickable)   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  CUSTOMER INSPIRATION! Those of you who have been here before know I love to show off what our customers create with our products.  Here we have two luscious bottles created by Sandi Boothman of Wayside Treasures.  She created these lovelies in part with our collage sheet Altered Children 1.       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love to showcase our customers and share their creativity!  Here is an ATC Joy Northrup  created using an image from our Altered Divas 3 collage sheet.  Thanks for sharing Joy!   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More Customer Inspiration My thanks to Joy Northrup of Joy to the Blog for sharing her artwork she created incorporating some of our Decorative Papers.  Not only do we love seeing beautiful inspirations but we also love to see how you use our products! Thank you Joy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I absolutely love to receive images from customers who have put our products to work for them!  To know that you have inspired someone to create a piece of art is an amazing feeling!  I bet you will find it hard to believe that this beautiful Valentine piece is Louise Dahlstrom's first step into the world of altered art/mixed media!  A big wave to our Aussie friends!  Way to go Louise!    Louise used an image from our Heartfully Yours collage sheet and our decorative paper called Distressed and Grungy Pink Damask paper as the background with stamps and watercolor crayons and pencil over that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Customer Inspiration!   Jan Thomason of www.polkadotbarn.blogspot.com created some "sweet and pretty" cards with some of our decorative papers and images from More Than a Pretty Face     We have some delicious shabby tags created by Barbara Dunford at http://vintagebunty.blogspot.com/ Barbara incorporated our Grungy Hearts into her work    Lynn over at Her Creative Spirit has honored us with a  piece of her artwork.  Lynn created this in part using one of our images  from the Altered Series Collage Sheets, Altered Ladies 4.   With muted colors, textures and even needle felting Lynn has  created a piece of art I'm happy to display here at the Cottage.  Thank you Lynn, I love it!   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  MARVELOUS INSPIRATION! from the multi talented Viola Erdmann!!! Viola has graciously allowed us to share with you   images of her ATC's she created using Shabby Cottage Studio Collage Sheets.  We're so proud to be liked by Viola. ;-) If you'd like to know more about Viola and her work  step on over to Mind Wide Open and read Sherry Smyth's interview of Viola. These images all come from our new Altered Series.    Altered Divas 5   Altered Children 5   Altered Children 5   Altered Divas 2   Altered Divas 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~