"Altered Art"
by Terry Taylor

144 pages, hardcover, full color photos

Join the fastest growing trend in the craft world today! Turn old books into delightful new creations with fresh color, collage elements, and interactive features like windows, pockets, and niches.  Transform vintage tins and cigar boses into unique works of art.  The possibilities are endless when you use tools and skills you already possess to fashion found objects - ranging from game boards and playing cards to vintage photos and dolls- into wonderful expressions of your own artistic vision.

Choose an object – a cigar box, playing cards, an old album cover – and use it as a creative starting point to make beautiful and entirely new items to display and use: that’s “altered art”.  Here is the first book to explore the full range of its possibilities, from turning a vintage board game into a nostalgic wall hanging to creating whimsical art dolls from children’s blocks. Take a look at the artistic traditions that inspired this movement, and see how to use the crafter’s familiar tools, materials, and processes in entirely new ways. Paint, collage, pierce, sew, and cut the pages of an old book. Change an ordinary candy tin into a charming decorative storage case with paper scraps, metal grommets, and paint. The possibilities are infinite.

Sale Price: $15.95
(Regular Price: $19.95)
SKU: 5SPALTART
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