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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Decidedly Alice Deconstructed

Golly, gee, after I just thought I knew how to get my pictures loaded so they went from the front of the book to the end, they're all assbackwards.
Oh well!! I've been altering this book for at least 10 years. The two photos next to last in this post were done so long ago I don't really even remember when and I've wanted to finish it up for quite a while but couldn't find the motivation.
The tunnel in those first two page spreads encompasses maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the pages. Not excellent planning but I did manage to squeeze in the rest of the page spreads I wanted. Using the original Tenniel illustrations throughout, I had a bunch of fun coming up with the backgrounds. The quilt on the rabbit hole page is one I made. The Cheshire cat page is mostly stretched out from the original illustration with some stamps and some Zentangles in the background. The woods for the Tea Party are my woods with a few stamped trees to blend with the party. That's one of my favorite techniques: use actual photos plus stamps. I did a basic pop-up on that page to keep the table out of the fold and then used a bit more complicated pop-up for the Pack of Cards page.

All in all, I'm super pleased with the outcome and thrilled to have finished my first altered book