...but where to put them?!?
Find a stack of old pictures? Don't know where to put them or how to display them? Stick them in your altered book!
Altered books don't have to be just artsy and abstract. A lot of my pages look more like scrapbook pages, only "altered." Sometimes the pictures are just shown in spreads with little knick-knacks added here and there. While other times I will cut different shaped windows in to a bunch or pages and put the photo in the window between the pages.
Here is a page that uses windows. To make windows, I hot glue the outer edges of a section of pages together. This makes one big thick section or page. From there I cut the shape out of the many layers; one the layers have all been cut, insert the photo. Finally, glue the top few pages in the stack together to keep the edges from curling over time.
For this page, I merely folded a series of pages and painted each a different color. Once all was dry, I added my photos.
This page is more of a scrapbook-like page. Nothing fancy, just some little items and decorations to accompany the photos. However, instead of selecting paper to mount it all on, I painted it to my liking.
Find a stack of old pictures? Don't know where to put them or how to display them? Stick them in your altered book!
Altered books don't have to be just artsy and abstract. A lot of my pages look more like scrapbook pages, only "altered." Sometimes the pictures are just shown in spreads with little knick-knacks added here and there. While other times I will cut different shaped windows in to a bunch or pages and put the photo in the window between the pages.
Here is a page that uses windows. To make windows, I hot glue the outer edges of a section of pages together. This makes one big thick section or page. From there I cut the shape out of the many layers; one the layers have all been cut, insert the photo. Finally, glue the top few pages in the stack together to keep the edges from curling over time.
For this page, I merely folded a series of pages and painted each a different color. Once all was dry, I added my photos.
This page is more of a scrapbook-like page. Nothing fancy, just some little items and decorations to accompany the photos. However, instead of selecting paper to mount it all on, I painted it to my liking.
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