Lessons from a Creative Muse

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I think that I mentioned before, I have the good fortune to be near an amazing store called

Ink About It.

I purchased this heart shaped book a while back in their shop with good intentions of learning how to alter the book. Try as I did to browse books on the subject, I truly needed the inspiration of a creative muse to get me started. When I returned from my class, I decorated the cover of the book. Black and white toile of course, with a bit of embellishments.



The amazing creative muse, Karen Provo taught a beginner class in altered books. I made this little girlfriend in another of Karen's classes.



Karen is a master altered book maker, and she takes it to another dimension.



I needed to get the introduction class under my belt in order to learn more advanced techniques next time.



Besides learning oodles of techniques, I met the most wonderful people in the class, including a fellow blogger. "How great is that"?



This class left my head spinning, not only because of the techniques I learned, but seeing all of Karen's incredible samples.



Some of her books were themes and some of them had little draws and the entire book was cut out with a design tucked inside.



Another fun thing about altering a book is that the words within the book can lead you to windows into creating things you might not have thought about otherwise.








I love old books, illustrating journals, and themes. Needless to say...





I have flown into altered book heaven.



The song for this post is Flight To Neverland.

"An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, altering its meaning."

I hope your day is filled with creative surprises.