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Altered Art and Art Supplies 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. 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 just never know  what I will find to spark YOUR creative journey! Artful Hugs & Sweet Southern Smoochies   The Cottage is getting a little bit rusty!  I like rust...do you? If you do these just arrived, all nice and rusty and aged looking. click on pictures for link   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've been designing again. :-)  Four new Collage sheets for your creative muse! Altered Divas 8, French Perfume Labels - Combo Sizes Domino Tiles Potpourri & Scrabble Tiles And don't forget...all our printed Collage Sheets are also available Digitally ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Brand new Bird Combo Sizes collage sheet and paper design called Happiness. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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!   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What's New? Tim Holtz and Heidi Swapp! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just Added ~ New Collage Sheet Backgrounds Each background is a larger 4" x 5" size plus New Decorative Paper Designs images are also click-able ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A sampling of NEW products in from Maya Road I just love their products!  Journaling Tags, Blossoms, Clock Stamp Set, and trinket pincs to jsut name a few.  You can find all the new items in our What's New Section over on the left near the top of the page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pretty Pretty!  New Collage Sheets and Decorative Paper! Altered Children and Pets, Oui Oui Marie, Whimsy Wings & Watercolor Blue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   I can't help myself I LOVE flowers!  So I've brought in a new batch of those vintage millinery looking Forget Me Nots in new colors.   And check out my lovely find of Vintage Metal Numbers!  I discovered them in a dusty old printing press drawer.  So many uses for these numbers but dont' miss out because once they're gone I can't get anymore. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spring has arrived at the Cottage and it's raining flowers! Our Velvet Forget Me Nots are back in stock as well as Velvet Leaves.  And brand new Paper Roses.  Below is just a small sample of our two dozen varieties of flowers available right now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   There are a couple new Collage Sheets and a new Decorative Paper design. We love Crafty Secrets lovely products and think you will too!  We're adding and restocking Tim Holtz and the Ranger Memory Frames and Glass.  Check out the new Inchie sizes of frames and glass.  We loved the intereactive sliding doors by Piggy Tales and Bare Elements house shaped Triptych too!  And we have some new flowers to add real soon so flower lovers keep an eye out!     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  I don't know about you but I'm dreaming of Spring and starting to bring in products we can use in our Spring creations.  Check these out! Brand New German Foils Our 8" Paper Mache Mannequin is back in stock AND we've added a 6" Mannequin and a Paper Mache Egg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Check out some new products!  Ivory and Sepia velvet blossoms have a wonderful vintage look.  I just added a new collage sheet to the Altered Series and created my new favorite-ist ;-) paper. I've also added some more items to The Flea Market.  You can see all our new items by clicking on the What's New box over on the left hand side of this page.  For the items below you can click on the pictures. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Paper Mache is so versatile and it's lightweight, affordable and requires no special prep for painting or altering! (Pictures are clickable) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     We received a limited supply of  two colorways of gorgeous velvet forget me nots, 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                              Find more photos like this on ZNE Network