Altered Silver - project_cofa

CofA: Additional Assembly

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:05:00 -0500

The CofA "assembly line" continued with the addition of some tiny collage pieces to several of the book's pages. Not every page received one, and this representative spread didn't receive any at all, so there's nothing to see for this step at this time.

The next run-through found me doodling a little something on each spread. Using my after-dinner-watch-a-little-tv time, a page or two of doodling was completed each passing day,…

CofA : Further Assembly

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:00:00 -0600

The next step in the CofA assembly line involved using the broad side of a marker to make about a .25 inch borderline around the outside edges of each of the pages. This side-view picture is rather blurry, but you can get an idea of how much more color these borders contributed to the general appearance of the book.

I have more rubber stamp alphabets than any other type of item…

CofA : Assembly-line artistry

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:50:00 -0600

The Celebration of Angels project was moving right along. There were color and pockets, windows and shapes, faux die-cut inserts, cards and tags with envelopes prepared. It was time to turn the project into a kind of "assembly line" of various steps. Because each step is applied to the entire book, I selected one spread to photograph as representative for the changes occuring throughout the book. What happens in this spread,…

CofA : Tag pockets

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:25:00 -0600

After making the five angel icon tags, I decided to make some little envelope-pockets for them to be slipped into. Here is how those were constructed.

Using one of the tags as a measure, I made a template from 20# paper by folding and trimming around the measure. A rounded corner punch and a circle punch helped to complete the design.

I folded a 9x12" sheet of artist tracing paper into…

CofA : Making Tags

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:35:00 -0500

It was time to prepare a few tags to include in the A Celebration of Angels altered book. I decided there would be a total of five tags. I wanted each of them to be unique, yet also of a similar vein.

I began on the computer, collaging together several samples of handwriting and setting it up for an 8.5x11" printout. I overlaid the handwriting with a layer of white lines…

CofA : Wings and window

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:50:00 -0600

Although I kind of liked the way the blue watercolor appeared over the text of the wings cutout pages, I decided to paint over them since the photograph on that spread bothered me.

I used acrylic paint for the base color, then went over the spread with loosely-brushed chalks. The spread was then sprayed with matte fixative. Now I like this new appearance so well, I might not do anything more…

CofA : Angel cards

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:10:00 -0600

The construction of cards to add into the book was so simple that I didn't bother taking photos of the process.

I decided to make four cards, so I chose four images from my vast digital collection, brought them into my paint program and resized them for what I needed. All four images fit onto a standard-sized paper, including the planned borders. The outer edges were delimited by a pale gray…

CofA : Double-sided Inserts

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:15:00 -0600

The book had six pockets, but what would they contain? Inserts, cards and tags, I decided. Then I set off to create those items.

Some years back, a friend sent me a greeting card depicting an angel, and the card was die-cut to follow the outline shape of the angel. This was the idea on which I wanted to build my inserts, something like that die-cut form. Since I wasn't making…

CofA : Shaping pages

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:05:00 -0600

The book had color and pockets, but still needed more form. I intended "Celebration of Angels" to not be a book for sedate reading or simply flipping through its pages, but one to explore more interactively. So I had to do some deconstruction of its neatly trimmed and aligned pages.

A couple recent acquisitions would help out here, so my new Fiskars Paper Edgers scissors and Fiskars border punch were called…

Project: Celebration of Angels - Color and pockets

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:05:00 -0600

For less than $2, as a remainder, I picked up a copy of Celebrities and Their Angels by Pat Montandon. Although some of the material the book contains is attractive and interesting, much of it is less than memorable. I decided to alter this book to hold some of the myriad angel imagery that I've been collecting for many years and re-title it: Celebration of Angels.

Because this is strictly a…