A couple of VIP’s in our lives have birthdays this month.
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I really wanted to do another lesson for the AB101 class I took online. It was over long ago but I have yet to finish. Of course my muse didn’t cooperate with me today and this is the spread that came out. It incorporated NONE, ZIP, ZERO of the lessons..oh well. I never was much of a rule follower.
I decided to only glue down one side of each butterfly so they’d have a dimensional quality. Hopefully they’ll still pop up after being smashed in the book over time. -
Each summer ABC_alteredbookclub celebrates the anniversary with a collaborative project. This is my 4th year participating.
My 1st year we did an alphabet themed chunky book.
The next year was another chunky book.
Last year we did something a little different. We made circles!
This year we are doing a skinny chunky book. Sounds weird, huh?!
I’m nearly finished with the whole swap. I cut out 28 of these 3×6 inch recycled cereal boxes. Only 25 are required for the swap but I wanted to make sure I had room for mistakes.I sprayed them with black, brown and gold paint on the printed side of the cardboard. The back is sprayed with white, brown and gold.
I decided to mix a custom color of embossing powder since plain white seemed way to stark against the dark background. I mixed mostly white with a little gold, copper, black and jasper. I really like the slightly speckled effect.
I have 7 more to complete but I ran out of the beaded trim. Either my math skills failed me at the store or I was severely cheated.
