Green Paper

Selling Books?

Yep, I'm selling a few of my books. Complete, untouched, intact, actual books. Not just the pages, or the covers, these are in good enough condition that I thought you might like them as is. They'd be great for scanning the illustrations, using as altered books, using the covers in a handmade book, heck, whatever. They'd also be lovely to display, and I suppose you could even read them if you want to!

Click on the title to go to the Etsy listing if you'd like one...

First Up: The Meadow Daisy

 
 
 
 
 
 
Next, an amazing edition of Five Little Peppers Grown Up. It has over 40 illustrations!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
and finally, Count Up the Sunny Days. You might want to alter this one. It has a sturdy spine, great cover and just a few illustrations to work around.

 
 
 
 
 
Aren't they all pretty? Let me know if you have questions about any of these! I'm de-stashing so I may have more books for you soon!

My Pages for Heather's Art Journal...

I finished the 2nd, 3rd and 4th spreads in the art journal I'm making for Heather's class...at least I think they're finished!

I've really started to enjoy sticking lace & ribbons on every page...but it was hard for me to get used to! 

Photos and borders

The latest pages in my altered book:

Using these old damaged photos has been fun. Most of them are like this one and have large worn off, blank areas. I really like the look of them with the vintage papers.

I've also been incorporating bits of floral imagery and decorated borders in these pages, like the piece you see all the way on the right of these pages.

 

Most of those are copied from holy cards in my collection. The border here was copied from this card:

 

I made some collage sheets repeating some of my favorite images. I've printed them to tear up and use. Here are a couple I made using this card:

 

Feel free to save them and play with them if you'd like - I love to see what different people make with the same materials.

By the way, you must stop by and take a look at Marilee's altered book. She's a wiz - cutting out windows and drawers in her book. It's very cool. See it here.

Art in books...

Here are the latest pages in my glue book:

and in my altered book:

New Pages

The latest pages from my altered book...

More altered book pages...

From Wednesday...Ruth Rae has a post about found poetry today, exactly one day after I read about it in Altered Books 101. So I decided to try it...

 

The words on the left page are:

• you should have led them
• "Precisely"
• he lied
• I was never fair
• to trifle with passion
• "You mustn't blame yourself"

The figure of the woman is so washed out in this old photo; I like the interaction of these words with this picture. Fun to do - I plan to play with this again...

and I missed scanning the  Monday pages...

 

While I think both spreads have too much gesso, neither has anywhere near the amount my scanner picks up...

This project is fun because I'm really playing around with different ideas and techniques; the backgrounds are loosely based on those Rachel Emilie Jackson demonstrated in Somerset Workshop Vol 3.  And my little beaded doodles are inspired by Ingrid Dijkers' blog banner.

Has anyone noticed I've become the queen of links? There's good stuff out there!

Altered Book

I started my altered book this weekend and got some of the prep I planned out of the way. The book I choose is an old novel; the pages measure about 7 1/2" X 5".  There were originally over 350 pages, so I've glued some pages together and removed others. There are still plenty to do.

I finally added some art to the book today; here are the first pages:

 

On these pages, I used some of the techniques and ideas from Pam Carricker's online class: Visual Journaling 101. It's nice to mix what I've learned into what I usually do and play around with the results. I sorted through the old damaged snapshots I've accumulated; I'd like to be able to incorporate as many as possible into the book. Not really a theme, but works for me.

Marilee also started an altered book this past week; we're encouraging each other. She has great directions on her blog about what she's done so far.