book arts

How to make a flipbook

I found dozens and dozens of sites that had instructions for making your own flip book.  One of my favorites was done by reguitar squiggle, a young man who posted on YouTube.  He uses post-it notes...

Flipbooks?

Flipbooks?  Those funny little cartoons that were a cross between a comic book and a movie?  Or sometimes the flip part was down in the corner of the book?  Well, Flipbook.Info has all the facts on...

Found poem page for anniversary book

Technique Tuesday! For my page in the Altered Book group anniversary book, I decided to do a found poem.  I’ve got an old novel called My Lady of the Fog (Ralph H Barbour, 1908) and another...

Altered Books 10 year anniversary

Altered Books have been around a lot longer than 10 years, but there’s a very special email group on Yahoo called the Alteredbooks group, which is having its 10th anniversary.  I’ve...

The next stage in book arts

Dark Roasted Blend has compiled some images and impressions of some truly cutting edge (NO pun intended) book artists.  These are the artists who outrage some others with their sacrilege…Yeah,...

Thomas Allen’s book art photography

Thomas Allen combines book arts with photography to produce some stunning results.  He slices the figures from the covers to create a 3D effect, then alters and stages them for their photo shoot.   I...

Beautiful wall art by Jason Thompson

Jason and Faye, of Rag & Bone, posted about this gorgeous wall piece that they made from book pages.  Now that’s what I call creative recycling!  There’s always something wonderful...

Sticky note books

Here is a darling idea that is fun, easy, and FAST to make (always a plus in the spring!).  Greeting Arts shares the instructions, along with lots of great photos. She writes: “Using pads of...

An animated altered book!

You’ve got to see this!  It reminds me of my favorite TV show of olde…Monty Python’s Flying Circus.  BubblyNumbers has created this amazing online treat, called the Book of...

Book artist: Margie Kelk

Artist: Margie Kelk Website: Margie Kelk In the past few years, I have made several trips to China. I became fascinated with the history and the people of that country, and for the past three years...