Altered Book Pages

As I promised earlier this week here are some pictures of the spreads I completed in the Altered Book round robin I am participating in. This round robin is with my wonderful group An Affair with Art led by Jeri. I have had so much artful fun since joining this group. I especially like it because they have such great ideas and wonderful swaps. I really like the swaps (even though I have only had the time to join in a few of them) for the fact that many of them are kind of outside the box of what I regularly do. I find it so fun to push myself creatively doing things I normally would not do or think of doing. These spreads have been done in Veronica's book. Her book was to have a lodge theme and it was definitely not a theme I have ever worked with but I had quite a bit of fun once I got started. This first spread is a cabin spread in which I incorporated another new thing for me the row houses right onto the page with a little row house cabin. I also added some metal trees and a canoe and paddle along with a couple of quotes.

For the next spread I added some made up poetry, a squirrel, leaves and acorns. The little acorns are removable. They open and there is a tiny page inside that can be written on. Veronica can gather her own thoughts or poetry in them like the squirrel gathers nuts.

The next spread has a half page pocket in the middle of it. On the left side is a Moose page with an image transfer and some Moose Information. The first side of the pocket is like a mini tackle box with tags that have pictures of bobbers, a fishing reel, and some fancy fish hooks on them.

The second side of the pocket has a little pocket on it. In the pocket I have added some more tags with pictures of fish. The last page of the spread is devoted to Bears. Much in the same way as the Moose page there is an image transfer and interesting facts about bears.

I have not yet received the next book that I am to be working but I do know that it will be Jeri's book and that her theme for her books is a Herbal theme so I am going to start working on some little goodies for some of the pages until the book arrives. I just love herbs and think this will be a fun and enjoyable theme for me to work with. I am anxious to get started. I will continue to post more pictures as the books continue to leave my hands.