Altered book pages for Lizzzy

You can click on each image if you wish to see them larger.
Unfortunately, glitter, rhinestones and sequins don't scan perfectly!

Tea Dreams-- Altered book page

This is a page from my "Daughter of Time" altered book. Just red, pink with touches of yellow and blue. The card with the old photograph comes out of the lace pocket and has an antique postcard (sticker) on the back. Behind it is some artwork by Flavia...whimsical hearts and tulips. I always like Flavia's use of line (charcoal?) in her illustrations.

Altered book round robin

Pages in a book for a mermaid....I don't think she is always "landlocked"!

Domestic Goddess

Two more double pages to use an an altered book....

Both of these focus on the magic of ordinary life with dreams of travel and broader horizons.

Pages

It's not quite finished, but it is coming together now....

Loving birds of all kinds, I think the paisley above the glitter bird on the left could be the perfect wing...a silk tea bag now holds a captured butterfly. The tag of the tea bag says "Paris". Everything in soft colors, mostly robin's egg and soft cocoa.

Daughter of Time (an altered book)

These are three double pages scanned from the altered book I am working on now...


this one, above is the month of May....with curtains of rain, sparkly pink sticker flowers, books to read, birds nesting and singing. A beautiful time...glorious outdoors or cozy indoors!

This one reminds me of fairy tales with swans and dancing princesses....wearing out their slippers! I added a sheer sequined embroidered overlay.


Here the focus is on a life which permits the making of this kind of art....to see, collect, remember and assemble images...."She had been shut away from the world" the text says. I added "While away the hours in your ivory towers"...perfect for the "daughter of time"! [from "The Games People Play" by Joe South]

Roses

Two scans from the altered book page I did today. The book had the word "Rose", so of course, I couldn't resist!
The word "garden" is also in the text.








I made a machine stitched pink tagboard envelope, then attached it with a ribbon between the pages to hold a bouquet of roses for the book's owner.

This is a scan of the double page without the hanging envelope. It is all about gardens and roses with a chair and some birds and china in there too! I am just so literal sometimes....the green filigree background is a rubber stamp.

Life is good....collaged page in altered book...(I am taking those wrinkles out of the chair!)





Flights of Fancy....



Feast your senses....rest....dream and it will come true.

An altered book page....it started with the large "O" in the text. I cut out the center and decided to do a page themed around "orange". First, I put and orange rose in the center of the "O". Then cirled special words from the text (like "chocolate candy", "rest", "smell of success", "succulent","juicy") to preserve them and painted the pages orange. Clipped art was then collaged onto the pages, along with a glittery butterfly sticker.