Over at Scrap Village we had an awesome feature on altering board books! I had a blast making these, so I’m going to show them off this week. Here’s one book for today.

You like? The snowflakes are made using embossing paste. It is reccomended that you use embossing paste with a brass template, however, I couldn’t find the templates I envisioned, and at around ten bucks a pop, brass templates add up. Instead, I used the negatives left from the new Basic Grey holiday chipboard (gave me a great excuse to buy that ha!) and also the negative from a quickutz snowflake die cut. The chipboard was thick enough to give me the thickness that I wanted the snowflakes to be, but the quickutz was very thin, so I layered four negatives n top of each other to make a deeper template. Then I spread the paste over the template with a butter knife, making sure to fill all of the cracks. After that I scraped the excess off and gently lifted my template to reveal the image. The buttons are embedded in the paste. It does take a few hours to dry, but not bad. Once it was dry I dry brushed a thin coating of white acrylic paint over the paste to give it an added level of texture and dimension.

More to come in the next few days!