May Altered Book Club

For this months altered book club, I chose Judith's book. Her book is about fashion and costume. This one was a hard one for me, I did not want to disappoint Judith because I know she is very passionate about the subject matter. I got the idea after attending the Stamping and Scrapbooking Expo at the State Fair Grounds this weekend. There was a booth from Wisconsin there teaching and selling Iris Paper Folding stamps and templates. here's a sample. I thought I'd like to do something like that, so I gave it a try.


I drew the template (or at least something to follow). And then cut out where I wanted it to show through. I also added strips of that super sticky tape ( the red stuff), so once I place it over the paper pieces it will "seal" in the edges.



Then I traced that opening onto another piece of paper. And added all the folds that I was to follow.



Then I started to fold the pieces of paper. I used 2 widths 1 " and 1.5" both folded in half the long way to have a nice edge on the strip. I started to place the strips of paper. (I tried numbering the template to make sure they are overlapped correctly, some weren't but I figured it out).

This was the most tedious part. As you can se you need to extend your strips out beyond the edge so when you place your top page back on it will cover all the edges of your piece.

After it was all said and done, this is how it turned out:



I think all of the work made the results worth it. I wanted to keep it really simple so I did not draw in the girl, I just added the flowers to suggest where her hands would be.

I added this page to her book and made a title page that says "The Most Important Dress".

Altered Board Book Cuttlebug Challenge

Yep...that's me!




Paper: We Are Memory Keepers Vintage Brass Collection
Brown Ribbon: Stampin' Up
Hardware: Stampin' up Hodge Podge Hardware
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo
Butterfly Stickers: K&Co.
Rub-ons: American Crafts & Basic Grey
Other: Cuddlebug Die-Tag alongs

Images are from actual photos and others are taken from an old children's book

Altered Book Club

Book #2 for Altered Book Club.

This month I chose Chris' book and the theme of her book is Autumn.







I wrote words that remind me of autumn on the back of the leaves.

The Poem by Charolet Flake Bates reads:

The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure out upon the leaves.

Behind the tree I layered blue ribbon lightest to darkest to represent the sky and tore up pieces of tape this tape to look like fallen leaves.

Altered Book Club

So I got sucked into another club. I don't know why I do this to myself. Probably because I am an artist, and love to share with other artists.

Besides all of the online card contests I enter, and the ATC (altered trading card, see older posts) I now am a proud member of a group held here.

Have you heard about Altered Books? Here's a great site to visit to find out more.

Anyway, I had Julie's book for the month and I chose "O" for my letter. Oh, the theme of her book is the alphabet (very partial to this theme) see this post I collect anything that has the entire alphabet on it.

So this is what I did for her book.


My name and letter choice for the front cover (this part of the book has the name a letter choise for everyone who's worked on her book).




Someone peaking through the faux wood tree. Whoooo could it be?





It is Mister Owl.
I think he turned out really cool...and he's one-of-a-kind. My husband drew him for me and I cut him apart and paper pieced him back together. And as you can see I weaved his chest. Really easy to do.



This is the back page (of the 4, I took up).



And this is what her entire book looks like. Jam packed with peoples art. How Fun!

(p.s. you might have seen that owl in other projects of mine. After he was done for this project, I scanned him into the computer and saved him as an image. For a recent card project I turned him pink.)

Altered Board Book

I've always wanted to alter a board book. I went to my local thrift shop and bought one for 49¢. I painted the entire thing white (I used acrylic, but suggest Gesso). I recommend sanding the entire thing first, so your paint will stick (I should have done this but didn't).

























Yep...that's me!




Paper: We Are Memory Keepers Vintage Brass Collection
Brown Ribbon: Stampin' Up
Hardware: Stampin' up Hodge Podge Hardware
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo
Butterfly Stickers: K&Co.
Rub-ons: American Crafts & Basic Grey
Other: Cuddlebug Die-Tag alongs

Images are from actual photos and others are taken from an old children's book