Don't stand still or you'll get altered too!

Altered art artists will alter most anything that will

stay still long enough. The All Things Tim - as in Tim Holtz -

Yahoo group recently hosted an Altered Mousetrap swap.

Yep, that's right - mousetraps!

We were to start with 2 plain old-fashioned wooden spring-type

mousetraps and "Tim-ify" them up.

Here are my completed mousetraps.

I stained the wood with Tim's Adirondack inks.

I also used inks to color the metal springs.  

I used pieces of a Bingo card in the background, and completed them

with Tim's tickets, some dimensional flowers, charms and buttons.

I think they turned out really cute!

And there's a bonus: the finished mousetraps make great

little noteholders, or key holders, or whatever you can fit

underneath that wire holder! With a magnet on the back

they will attach to the fridge or a filing cabinet.

Until next time,

Beverly