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Use a Childrens Board Book To Make An Altered Book

One of the easiest ways to make an Altered Book is to start with a children's Board Book.

You can usually get these books on sale so they don't cost you an arm and a leg.

This saves hours of gluing pages together and these books have very thick pages so they tend to hold together better in the long term.

What you do is use Gesso to paint over the shiney pages to start with then you can use acrylic paint and handmade and other paper techniques to get the base of your page before adding ephemera and other 3 dimensional objects.

Some people say that you need to give the pages a light sanding first but I have never done that and never had a problem

The picture is of a book that I altered the cover of.