Board Books: And The Treasures They Can Become!
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!
Jonas must love snow, becouse i think this is one of many photo shoots were he smiling and not giving you a dirty look. I love this book!
Comment by crystal — December 5, 2006 @ 7:50 am
Wow… That looks so much fun!!! can you believe I’ve never seen snow? well it’s true!!! i was born & raised in South America, lived for the last 14 years of my life in Sunny Hot Winter Florida. Sometimes i’m glad that I still get to go to the beach in mid Dec.
Comment by Gina — December 5, 2006 @ 8:34 am
Once again..Awesome!
Comment by Heather — December 5, 2006 @ 9:36 am
Once again..Awesome!
Comment by Heather — December 5, 2006 @ 9:37 am
DO you EVER do anything that isn’t great and magnificent?! Sometimes you really make me sick… LOL- I wish I were as talented as you. luv ya
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Comment by Amber Winward — December 6, 2006 @ 5:22 pm
I LOVE THIS. So, are you now scrounging the thrift stores for old board books???
Comment by Soli — December 6, 2006 @ 10:40 pm
Gorgeous, Just gorgeous you’ve got TALENT! where did you get the board book? on my “to do” list today is to make a paperbag album for my kids’ teachers (are they out of style now?) I saw board books in Oriental Trading and was considering them but got the paperbags off of Ebay instead.
joni
Comment by Joni Kuehl — December 7, 2006 @ 11:43 am
Your book is fabulous!! Thanks for the tips on making the snowflakes!
Comment by quiltlady — December 7, 2006 @ 9:12 pm
Those are awesome!
Comment by Nicole — December 9, 2006 @ 1:21 pm