A New Altered Board Book

The places I frequent on the WWW have had a flurry of Alice in Wonderland activity. Rick St. Dennis just released some new AIW stamps in addition to his already fabulous selection. Donna Muninger, who hangs around some of the same places I do, just posted an amazing Alice in Wonderland card here. And I've been missing playing with the Mad bunch since I finished my Alice altered book here . So I've started another! The first one followed the story in a linear way and used the original Tenniel illustrations. This one will be much less controlled and I hope to sample illustrations from lots of current digital artists.
To start off I've used Rick's new Alyce from his Randi Dandi line and the "down the rabbit hole" scenario. This is a big book with at least 21 double page spreads so I'm hoping the parameters I've set will hold my interest.

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Getting Dressed Altered Book

Kate had brought several altered books along to work on during our creative time together. I didn't have much planned so just made a few cards for the first few days. then I saw an article in the paper titled "You're Wearing That?" and took off with this little book. The book form is a child's board book, one of the cheapie ones that allow just peeling the slick printed pages out and you're left with empty, though slightly rough, pages to decorate. It really beats all that sanding!!

Kate had sent a GellyArt plate as a birthday gift to herself which we played with quite a bit. It's like a gelatin monoprint plate but you can clean it off and use it over and over - no melting! See, I'm not the only one who gifts themselves. We spent a lot of time pulling prints and ghosts of prints off the plate. My background for the "clothes make the man" was done with the plate. We decided it was a perfect two person project as one of us could be making a monoprint while the other one was cleaning off anything that got covered with paint. The GellyArt manufacturers do suggest paint rather than ink to keep from staining the plate. My birthday is way too far off!

In the book I used stamps, paint, pastel chalks, gesso, scrapbook papers and some collage. I added the zipper, buttons and lacing trim to accent the theme.

It looks like Blogger is going to put the last three pages first. But I'm taking notes - I'm sure to get it right sooner or later.

A Birthday Gift for Pam

We had a late birthday celebration for Pam. I was inspired by the handmade gifts I got for my birthday to make this little altered board book for her. It was one of the 10 I had started after her last visit and the only one I had really gotten caught up with. It's fun to make a friend the focus of a project and to think of their personality as the start of each layout. Most of the quotes I found in Angela Cartwright's " In This House".