Altered Eclectic first challenge

Hi folks this is the first of a marathon blogging session.

Mentioning the first, it is the first challenge from Altered Eclectic

we are going to run monthly on the 1st of every month

Elaine wanted a blog that was for altered art but anything would go, especially when projects can take so long and then they don't fit a challenge.

Please remember It is not to include

cards,ATC's or layouts but anything else will fit.

For our first post Elaine wanted us to make something which reflects us so I decided to alter a book.

The title is

"Never judge a book by its cover"

     I used a reader's digest book that I got from the amenity site

I gutted it down and stuck the pages together with PVA , to give myself working pages.

To produce the cover I used Plenty kitchen towel and stuck it on with PVA. I let it dry overnight then painted it with Gesso I then let that dry, once I had a workable surface I mixed gesso and acrylic paint until I was happy with the colour. Again it was drying time, when I was eventually happy I added gilding wax , the flowers  and book plate. So there you have my book.

I then went on to paint and fill 3 sets of pages,
Its the first time I have done something like this but I really enjoyed it. The first pages are coloured with my favourite Tim Holtz  colours paints . I have included stamps , words stamps, my own thoughts, charm etc

 Page 2 

These pages again include distress stains, stamps,charms wooden butterflies,pearls, my thoughts and sayings about butterflies.

Coloured with distress pens.

 Page 3

These include my loves in life, my cats and tractors!!!!

yes I know I am mad. But they are the work horses of life, sometimes I feel I am a tractor lol. This page includes stamps and charms coloured with distress stains.

Thanks for calling by,

 hope you like what I have created.

Have a play and come and join us.

At Altered Eclectic

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Challenges Entered
Amusing Challenge      anything goes
Anything But a Card    Getting Messy
Quirky Crafts        Everyone wants to be a cat
Sparkle & Sprinkle   anything but a card
Crazy Challenge   anything but a card
Inky Chicks   anything goes