#5215 Altered Books 103: Little Books, Decos, CDs & More! (Design Originals) [Paperback]

Keely Barhand (Author), Beth Cote (Author), Art Angels (Author)

Book Description

Series: Design Originals | Publication Date: January 1, 2004

Let your imagination run wild with the techniques and patterns shown here.  Altered books, "Decos," CDs, Tag Books and other unique ways to store your memories and sentiments in this new approach to scrapbooking.

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About the Author

Beth Cote is a well-known professional artist who works with mixed media and book arts. Her main focus is Altered Books. Beth travels the country teaching popular paper arts workshops at retreats, shops and conventions.

Keely Barham is a mixed media artist and workshop teacher from California. She teaches all across the country at conventions and artists' retreats. Her main focus is fabric art and beading, but she likes to explore many different mediums.

'Arts Angels' is a group of eight women who live all over the US. All are accomplished artists who are united by their creativity and special friendship. They share humor, inspiration and most of all, ART!

Product Details

• Paperback: 51 pages
• Publisher: Design Originals (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574215256
• ISBN-13: 978-1574215250
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #494,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Emulate their use of materials but not their compositions, May 28, 2005

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This review is from: #5215 Altered Books 103: Little Books, Decos, CDs & More! (Design Originals) (Paperback)

This book has pros and cons.
Pros:
There are many many collages illustrated in this book.
The collages are made with a suprising variety of materials, many of which I had never seen, or never considered using in a collage. The combinations of varied elements give the collages rich texture.
The photos of the projects are high quality.
A few of the collages are beautiful.
The collages contain interesting use of overlapping.

Cons:
Most of the collages have the same kind of layout - casually arranged elements strewn at odd angles with lots of overlapping.
In most of the compositions, the intesting mix of textures doesn't quite compensate for lack of a strong center of interest.