Altered Books of Indiana

Meeting Time!

2007-06-27T13:46:00.001-07:00

This month we will be doing hand-made beads. The above picture shows the three different types that we will be making.
The supply list is:
1. Metallic acrylic paints
2. Paper Towels
3. Gel Medium
4. Metal Knitting Needle
5. Plastic Sheet protectors
6. Plastic Drinking Straws
7. Fabric Scraps
8. Metal Wire or Fibers
9. Heat Gun
I will have extras of everything on hand so don't worry if you don't have something.

Meeting time is 1pm at Bianca's house!

Monoprinting

2007-04-28T18:33:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun this week, learning to do monoprinting. Many thanks to Ariane!!!
Here are the step by step instructions for monoprinting:
1. Cut open a sheet protector on two sides so it opens like a book.
2. Using re-inkers or acrylic paint put dabs of color onto the inside of the sheet protector.

3. close and brayer. Be careful, if you use too much paint/ink it will spill out of the sides. It's a good idea to cover your work surface.
4. When you like the look of the colors, open it back-up and stick a piece of paper in the middle. Close and re-brayer.
5. Open-up and viola! You have a gorgeous piece that is identical on both sides.

meeting time!

2007-03-26T11:35:00.000-07:00

We are meeting this saturday at 1pm, to do easy acrylic techniques.
Here is the supply list:
2 or 3 colors of acrylic paint. (I often use inexpensive paints from Michael's. The small bottles, that run about .60-.90 a piece.)
1 or two paintbrushes. Here again, I buy the least expensive. A good place to look is in the "student" supplies aisle or in the crafts aisle.
Your book, or several sheets of blank heavy weight paper, to practice on.
A throw away plastic cup for rinsing and washing.
A few paper towels.
A heat gun (if you have it. This is not necessary, but will help with drying time.)

Please feel free to click the "contact" button for location and directions!

Our Last Meeting

2007-02-24T18:53:00.000-08:00

We had a ton of fun at our last meeting where Beverly kindly taught us all how to make spirellas! Here are some photos of the meeting.

Here we are cutting out and designing our spirellas. You can see some of the examples that Beverly brought next to her arm on the table.

And here are some photos of our finished products.
A BIG thank you to Beverly for teaching us this amazing technique.
We will see you all next month!

Our Next Meeting

2007-02-19T19:16:00.000-08:00

Hi All:
We will be meeting this Saturday, to learn how to make spirellas, which Bev Crawford has graciously offered to teach. Please let me know if you will be attending or not so I don’t hold-up the meeting.
Please feel free to contact me for location and directions!

Here is the supply list:
Scissors

Adhesive tape

Card stock

Pearl cotton and/or embroidery thread of contrasting colors that will coordinate

with color of card stock.

And the ever popular glue stick.

Lastly, if you like a coordinated book page.

See you all on Saturday.
Bianca

Our Last Meeting

2007-01-28T19:54:00.000-08:00

So we are back after a hiatus for the holiday seasons. This month we did pop-ups. Here are two examples from the meeting. With close-ups on each pop-up. You can click on the image to see a larger version.

Our last Meeting

2006-10-30T13:08:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of photos of the triptych technique we tried out at our last meeting! The first one is with the doors closed and the second with them open. you can click on the photos to get a larger view. We had a ton of fun--everybody did one that was slightly different and they all turned out beautifully! Looking forward to seeing everyone next month.

Our Meeting

2006-10-11T16:34:00.000-07:00

Last meeting we worked on easy acrylic transfers. Here is one of the tags made using this process. Working with a photo copy of an image, you coat the receiving surface with gel medium and lay the photo copy face down. After a few minutes, peel the photo copy off, and gently rub the remaining paper off. This process also works with pages out of books.

Hope to see all of you at the next meeting later this month!

Meeting Time!

2006-09-27T12:23:00.000-07:00

It’s that time again!
We will be meeting this Saturday at 3pm. The topic of discussion this week will be easy acrylic transfers.
What you will need:
photocopies of images or images from books.
Gel Medium
Surface to copy to.
Hopefully, enough people will be able to bring gel medium so that we can share with anyone who is without.

Please feel free to bring any new examples of your work to share as well!
Since I was unable to get a free library room for this month, I will be holding the meeting at my house. Please feel free to email me for directions!
I look forward to seeing all of you!

Our First Meeting

2006-08-28T16:04:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from our first meeting! Unfortunately some of our members couldn't make it, but we still had a ton of fun looking at each other's books and discussing our future plans! It looks like we're going to learn about easy acrylic transfers next month, a December party and even taking a trip to Michigan to have a joint meeting with the our Michigan counterparts. We're going to have a lot of fun together! So if you haven't yet, please join us!!!

New Artwork

2006-08-21T10:40:00.000-07:00

Here are some new creations by our long-distance member Linda (who participates all the way from Baltimore, Maryland!)
The paper she used in this spread is from Indianapolis's own Dolphin Paper which she visited when she was here a few weeks ago.
Here is what she has to say about her creations: "Here are the two journal pages I did after our visit to Dolphin.
The first one uses lots of the scraps I bought and an image from one
of the little Dover books (asian art stickers). The second one
features an ATC (I glued it's plastic sleeve onto the
page so I can take the ATC out to admire and read:)

As you can see, I used the same color scheme for both pages -- they
are on facing pages in my journal."

Meeting Announcement!!!

2006-08-15T18:47:00.000-07:00

"Getting to know you..."

It's time for the first meeting of the Indiana Altered Book Group.
When: The Last Saturday of this month (the 26th) at 3pm.
Where: Borders Books and Music Cafe in Downtown Indianapolis. (For directions please feel free to email me with your starting point and I'll send you a map!)
What To Bring: Some of your work and your creative spirit!
Topic: This week we'll be getting to know each other a little bit and do sign ups for techniques (each month after this we will try to do a new technique during our meetings) as well as discussing what we'd like to accomplish together.

We look forward to seeing you there!!!!

Sticky Tape Page

2006-07-31T17:43:00.000-07:00

I made this page using the "sticky tape" transfer method. I layered collage items, and then applied them to my book, which had been primed with gesso and metalic purple and green paints! The inspiration for this peice came from Inspire me Thursday's weekly challenge.

Posted By Bianca.