Altered board books

This post is something I've wanted to do for a while. At my auction two weeks ago, I had someone purchase my quote book. She emailed me afte...

We cleaned out old board books and made art journals at the same time! This activity worked well with my child, but could also be a fun way for an adult to make themselves an art journal or junk journal.

The other week, I found three little board books at the flea market for 50 cents. I've started to alter this one, and the cover is now finished! First, I peeled off the "story" on the inside, and it was pretty easy to do... it seemed to be covered in a thin sheet of plastic. Once that stuff was off, it was pretty good looking, just plain brown chip board :) I used acrylic paints to make each inside spread a different color, then accented the edges with an inkpad and chalk pastels. I'll post…

On December 4th my husband and I landed in California after an 11 hours flight and were welcomed by our wonderful friends. They'd hosted us for over a week,

We had a board book that I didn’t like too much. The illustrations were too wishy washy and there were too many words.

Favorites in this book: Angel Board Book, Vintage Greetings Book, In The Garden, Pockets Book and Tag Book.

I've been collecting a few childrens' board books for some time now, together with lots of info. and ideas as to how to 'alter' them, so I have been playing with one recently. The two above are about 3 and a half inches square, and the little one only about 2" square. Here we go, having rubbed the very shiny surfaces with fine sandpaper, stuck a torn piece of embossed wallpaper on the front and then covered the whole book with gesso. I then painted the front and back very quickly with blue…

I have been very frustrated lately, not only with life, but my children. I found these boardbooks at the second hand store( Goodwill ) and k...

Okay, I am not quite sure how this happened, but I am two months behind cross-posting my CropChocolate tutorials here at Scrappy Canuck Studios. While you can always find them over on The Crop, I …