Altered Christmas Book (PART 2)

This altered Christmas Book was the very first altered book that I made. At first, I just couldn’t stand the thought of “ruining” a book, but then someone told me that I am not ruining a book, I am giving a book destined to be consumed by dust and moths a new lease on life, to be loved in a different way. I followed a tutorial from Gayle Agostinelli on YouTube to learn how to alter a book to be able to use it for something new.

What I really liked about this project is that I got to use so many of my craft supplies and tools!

This blog is in 2 PARTS

I will be sharing the tools, products and techniques I used in this book grouped under the following headings:

PART 1:

PART 2:

I will be hard to take a photo of all the products and tools used, but this is what my table looked like when I started!

For an overview, see how the project turned out:

Stickers:

A whole variety of stickers made it into this book. I printed some images on clear sticker paper to create a translucent effect:

Word stickers completed these pages:

These glass baubles are also stickers:

I completed this card and the page with a strip of holly stickers:

Stamps:

Eight different stamps came in useful for this project:

8 stamps used in this project

2 Christmas tree stamps:

2 Sentiment stamps:

Believe in the magic stamp — Believe stamp

A rope stamp:

Stamped rope — Stamped and painted ropes

A chain stamp:

Sticker baubles hanging from stamped chains

A ticket stamp:

Stamped tickets — Die cut and stamped tickets

And a background stamp:

circle background stamp — Background stamp with little circles

Patterned Paper:

Various pieces of patterned papers were used in this project. Patterned papers were used as End-papers:

As a background on pages:

Pockets and pocket linings:

Mats:

Paper strips:

To create die cuts:

Borders:

Cards to fill the pockets:

Tabs:

Vellum:

Vellum came in very useful to create magical effects in this book. Some words were printed on golden vellum:

Vellum with golden patterns creates a luxurious effect:

This Christmas tree printed on vellum looks magical:

Cutting Dies:

Two of my favourite cutting dies were use in this project:

They added a little magic to the pages:

Other little touches:

I used a whole lot of other little touches to make this book just perfect. They will just be listed with a photo. If you want some more information on anything, please feel free to contact me for details.

Cards from a Christmas pack: