Altered Book Workshop

Jeri and the gang from AAWA lead a workshop on altered books today at the Artist's Muse retreat. They had lots of examples of books they had worked in:



Here's Jeri with Jean Marie and Sherry, deciding on books to alter:



Kate showed how to make niches in books. She showed us a book in progress that had a niche cut out from the edge the size of box of matches that she is going to use for a drawer. She also showed us a book with a niche that had a class bottle in
the niche:



Linda told us about using a saw to cut your book into different shapes. She also showed us how to do a book with in a book:


Cher showed us how to fold pages to make pockets and other hidden place in our books:


Susan showed us her sample book. She uses it to try different techniques. What a great why to try stuff out before doing it in someone else's book in a round robin!!

Thanks to Jeri, Cher, Linda, Kate, and Susan everyone learned lots about Altered Books and got to look at some great examples!