# 6 of the Altered Book Round Robin

This books theme is "In My House" and we were to complete that sentence with words and art ... so this is what I did ....

A few cards ...

While I wait for my cataract surgery to heal I have done a few cards ... 

In Memory of All Who have Served ...

Thank You ... 

#5 in the Altered Book RR

This book had a theme of Green ... and who is better at Green than Mother Nature ... hope you enjoy

This on is just tags and pockets

This is the sign in tag I made for her book

Happy Easter Everyone

One eyed wire work ...

Yep I said one eyed ... I had cataract surgery last Wed. and can't do much of anything in art since I have one eye near sited and one eye far sited .... it will be another 4 weeks before I can get glasses to make the far sited eye see things up close ... sooooo I am doing things kind of one eyed ...

This is some wire work I am working on for a mix media book I will be doing in July at a retreat, the theme is Woodland/Forest ... I have lots of ideas running around in my head so I am trying to get some of the ephemera done in advance so I can do the construction at the retreat ....

I am pretty pleased with my butterfly ... it's wire, diamond glaze (left to dry) then I painted, with a very small paint brush, alcohol inks for the colors and small wire with seed beads to decorate the body ... I may do another one when I get both eyes to see if I can get the wing proportions better

#4 in the Altered Book Round Robin

This ladies theme is "Mica", I love to work with mica in altered books but truthfully I forget to use it so this really excited me ... I immediately thought of bottles of mica holding butterflies ... and then a window into another butterfly world so this is what I came up with ....

# 3 in the AB Round Robin

ok this ladies theme is Vintage 4th of July ... see what you think

Playing Tag yesterday and today

I have just wanted to do some scrap stuff on tags and demnitional stuff too, and I really needed some stress relieving .... so this is what I came up with ... you can't tell much about the demnition in these photo's but it's there ....

# 2 of the Round Robin Altered Books

This one is for Gwynn ... her theme is Vintage layers, layers, layers in white and neutrals ... the white scrap with pearl buttons is off a Vintage gown, the little girl is my mother-in-law on transparency ... I think you can probably tell what the rest of the things are ... enjoy, click to enlarge

# 1 Altered Book Round Robin

I am in a round robin with 6 other people so this is my book and I am sending Graphic 45 paper and images and paper to each person to make their own little diary for their spreads ... I will show all when I get the book back about August of this year ... when it comes back I will finish the leather closure, hope I put enough length to it ... I love working Altered Books ...

Valentines is on it's way

so I decided to make an explosion LOVE box .... 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Tree is ready

Stocking are hung .... ALL over

Sideboard is ready for Sweets with Sweet Fairy and all

A few more Christmas Cards

still trying to make more to send out, but life keeps getting in the way so this may be it ....

I used Martha Stewart's punch for the top and bottom borders, just a regular circle punch 5 times for the ornament and the writing embossing folder

this one was very simple the only thing is Tim Holtz tree stamp the rest is just paper 

This one is Tim's Holly stencil and Speckles stencil, I used Tea Dye Tim's ink for the branches, Barn Door ink for the berries and Forest Moss for the leaves that I put on top of Peeled Paint then the Speckles were done in denominational paste and sprinkled with glitter while it was wet to look like snow falling, the next step was to cut a frame from the green cardstock and lay it over to mimic looking out a window

This is an easel card with a mixture of Tim's Snowflake border and Deer, Sizzix Snowflake #3 die and Martha Stewart's Snowflake punch, with pleated velvet ribbon and Tim's word stick painted with white craft paint and wiped down some