Archive for the ‘altered books’ Category
Personalized AlTEreD Book
Posted by: myalteredart on: September 1, 2009
Last year for Christmas I made personalized altered books for my daughters. I used a hard cardboard baby book and sanded all the pages then I painted them with gesso and then acrylic paint. I then decorated them with altered pictures of family members. The girls LOVED them! I even made altered dolls of family [...]
Custom Made Art Doll Plaques
Posted by: myalteredart on: August 30, 2009
I just added custom made art doll plaques to my etsy store inventory. You can order your own personalized and custom made art dolls plaques made with your own digital photo image. Themes are: “Reach for the Stars” and “You’re a Superstar”. The dolls have jointed arms, legs and heads. $12.00 each. Go to Chinatown [...]
Altered Books
Posted by: myalteredart on: August 30, 2009
I just got back from visiting my daughter in TN. It’s lovely there where she lives near the Smokey Mountains. Here is a picture taken from her road deep in the valley….. where the mountains surround her house and you can’t get cell phone service! While I was there I took some pictures of some [...]
AltEReD ArT Butterfly Journals
Posted by: myalteredart on: August 19, 2009
Here are two altered art journals that are very easy to make. I made a bunch of them last year and gave them out as Christmas gifts to our staff. I bought the journals at the dollar store and then I found a nice picture that I liked for the center of the cover and glued [...]
New Projects…. and Old
Posted by: myalteredart on: August 16, 2009
I can’t tell you enough how much I LOVE altered art! I’m currently working on some new projects that I will post pictures of soon. Last year I made altered books for my daughters and my sister. I will take some pics of my daughter’s book when I visit her in Tennessee next week. Here’s [...]
My First Project ~ Stained Glass Geisha
Posted by: myalteredart on: January 4, 2009
I did my first altered book project in October for a gift for my friend Patty, who likes Japanese dolls and fans. I took apart a book I had to use the cover and covered it with paper. I then printed a copy of the stained glass geisha pattern from Chantal’s free stained glass patterns [...]
