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I’m thrilled that the new altered book round robin, that Theresa invited me to participate in, has begun!!
This book has the theme of Book Journeys. At first I was worried I wouldn’t be able to come up with pages..then the ideas started flowing and I had to pick just 2. All the books that I love to read to my kids were close in the running too.
But these are what I ended up going with.
Each of these authors are fantastic story tellers and I’d highly recommend any of these books.
This has been a work in progress for quite some time now. The first thing I did was rip a bunch of random pages out. Then took a corner rounding punchto each page. I selected pages to paint leaving 1-3 unpainted pages between. My next step was to punch holes for the stitching. The 
stitching was done mostly while sitting and waiting for my kiddos during their activities.
I learned a new background technique on ABC_alteredbookclub and have completely fallen in love with it. It uses acrylic paint and baking soda. I believe it is a Claudine Hellmuth technique originally. I have asked my friend who presented the tutorial permission to link to it…I know she is busy so I will update ASAP.
UPDATE: Tutorial link
I used this technique for the covers of my Art Journal.
Next I plan to start filling the painted backgrounds with…well I haven’t completely decided… It likely will be what strikes me at the time. I know I won’t be doing the pages in order…just randomly picking what suits my mood or subject best at the time.
This whole project was inpired by Ingrid Dijnkers awesome Art Journals.
I’m on a roll today!!
This era always fascinates me. The women were so put together. Sort of June Cleaver like.
I always wonder what things were like behind closed doors. Take a couple Valium…get out the rouge and red lipstick…your gloves and hat…and stroll to the market like everything is perfect.
I pulled out my Vintage Fashion altered book that was in a round robin. There were still a few pages left unadorned. I whipped this one out this morning.
Hopefully I can get a little more inspiration and finish this book up.
My Road Trip book is ready to start it’s journey around the country. It will physically travel to Tennessee, Florida, Washington and Illinois before returning home to me. I can’t wait to see the “trips” my fellow artists take inside the book.
These are the most incredible altered books I’ve ever seen. The artists name is Brian Dettmer.
I’ve added to my Road Trip cover. Now I feel like the cover is finally finished.
I also have finished my sign-in page. The pocket will hold all the vehicle sign-in tags.
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