     | | newsletter signup | store directory | bulletin board | calendar | surveys | shop online | coupons | digital designers | Altered Books 101 – Holiday Keepsake Book -- Article This month’s project utilizes a large, thick book. In it, I cut a large niche and used a box lid to make a drawer that would fit in the niche. Here’s a step-by-step on how to do it.
Altered Books 101: Thanksgiving Altered Catalog Cookbook -- Article This article contains projects for all levels of paper crafters. I realized one night recently, as I made the Kung Pao Chicken recipe from the Friends Cookbook yet again, that all of my favorite cookbooks are altered books. Notes about what to do next time, substitutions, food splatters...they all tell a story in my favorite cookbooks! My mind kept going until I thought about my tried and true Thanksgiving dinner menu, cobbled together from recipes I’ve found here and there, along with the family favorites, and how fun it would be to alter a book into my Thanksgiving Day bible. Altered Books 101 – Using a Color Theme -- Article This article contains projects for all levels of paper crafters. Depending upon the artist working on them, some altered books have a recurring theme throughout. Other books can be completely all over the place. Most of my own books fall into the latter category, so I decided to do a book as a tribute to my favorite season: Autumn. Not surprisingly, my favorite color palette includes the fall colors, so this made my task very enjoyable! It’s fun to sit at my table surrounded by a bunch of colors and find different ways to use them.
Altered Books 101: Journaling -- Article This article contains projects for all levels of paper crafters. This month, let’s talk about journaling. You journal in your scrapbooks, your diary, your daily planner...why not in your altered books? In this article I’ll show some examples of using an altered book as a basis for a memory book. For me, I’m finding that I’m reminiscing a lot and I thought it would be nice to record these random and fleeting memories of my youth. In this book, I’m focusing on school days in particular.
Altered Books 101: Danglies -- Article This month’s technique is not only fun to do, but it’s fun to say: Danglies! Anything that hangs or dangles off the page is a danglie and it’s a fun way to add dimensional objects to a book without having to place them in between pages.
Altered Books 101: Using Found Objects -- Article This article contains projects for all levels of paper crafters. Recently, on our way back from lunch break during a day-long class, my altered book friends amused me by picking up all sorts of bits of rusted metal and other “junk” while we walked. I was amused mostly because I’ve been picking up cool-looking “stuff” all my life and I’m glad I’m not the only one who does that. I knew my friends were going to use these bits in their art, just as I use all of that “stuff” in my own art.
Altered Books 101 – Altered Book Wedding Projects -- Article This article contains projects for all levels of paper crafters. I got married a few months ago, and in true Tracey fashion, was compelled to make a lot of the decorations, favors and items to be used in the ceremony. For our casual backyard wedding, it was entirely appropriate and the items turned out to be the perfect touches, making the ceremony and the reception uniquely ours.
Altered Books 101: Image Transfers -- Article This article contains projects for all levels of paper crafters. Let me start by stating a fact: I am a very impatient artist. I don’t generally go in for techniques that require a lot of brain power, steps or detail. I like results! So, when it comes to the myriad of techniques out there for doing image transfers, I’ve generally worked with what looked easiest and with materials I already own.
Altered Books 101: Covers -- Article This article contains projects for all levels of paper crafters. To me, the most daunting part of altering a book is doing the cover. On the inside of the book, pages can be torn out if they don’t come out the way I wanted. But the cover? I get so antsy! What if I stamp something and it gets smooshed or ruined? Can I keep collaging layers until I get it right?
Using Envelopes -- Article This article contains projects for all levels of paper crafters. This month we’ll discuss the use of envelopes in your altered book creations. A pretty envelope can be used simply as a design element in your page spreads, as a functional element....or both! They can be glued, stapled, taped or sewn onto your pages. They can also be used as a page all on their own! Let’s get started…
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