Altered Board Book Basics & Beyond: For Creative Scrapbooks, Altered Books & Artful Journals | 
 enlarge | Author: Jan Smiley
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $5.36
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 291828
Media: Paperback
Pages: 48
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.2
ISBN: 1571203095
Dewey Decimal Number: 702.81
EAN: 9781571203090
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Condition: Brand new! May have a remainder mark.
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Product Description
EVERYTHING you need for personalizing a blank board book and creating your own unique masterpiece! Jan's step-by-step instructions show you how!
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 True source of inspiration August 28, 2005
Martha Rodger (Howell, MI USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Although the size of the book is not large, the scope is great. It is full of solid text and ideas supplemented with wonderful illustrations. It combines how-tos and inspiration in meaningful ways. A true source of ideas for anyone who pursues, or would like to pursue, these crafts. Thanks to all her contributors - there are some great creations presented.
Amazing Inspiration August 16, 2005
Ann Krier (North Carolina)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Altered Board Books provides tons of inspiration and creativity for the altered book enthusist who is seasoned or who is trying the techniques for the first time. Combining personal memorbellia with outstanding, easy to accomplish technqiues, Jan Smiley has created a book that is worth the investment.
 A little confusing for a beginner September 13, 2005
rose thyme (Nashville, IN)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Overall, I think that this book has a lot of information, great photos of lots of examples. The only reason I gave it four stars was that I think it could be better organized. It jumps around a bit and does not explain how some of the books are constructed. That may be simplistic for non-beginners, but this seems to be a beginning book! I found myself enjoying the pictures of the books, but wondering how some of them were made with rings, etc. This book is actually a very good value, but I wish there had been some photos of a book in progress, instead of jumping right in to finished pages! Overall, I am glad that I bought it, even though the instuctions are pretty general.
 Nice pictures but lacks detail November 5, 2005
Linda Ritter (San Jose)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Lots of inspirational pictures by the author and other artists, but there is little description of how some of the more interesting techniques were done, like accordian board books and other binding techniques. Found it overall a little disappointing, but at least it wasn't too expensive. Also I wish there was less use of scrapbooking supplies and more use of original background techniques or art papers.
 Shop till you drop October 14, 2005
Buddhaclown (New Mexico USA)
30 out of 34 found this review helpful
This is one of the worst books on bookbinding it has been my misfortune to purchase. It lacks detailed information on techniques and substitutes what is generally a "go out and buy" attitude. It encourages the purchase of materials such as premade scrapbooking items rather than giving ideas for an individual to make and incorporate in the creative act.
Altering books is one of the crafts that affords the integration of everyday materials in a way that is fun and INEXPENSIVE. This book should have a shopping list in the back and get it over with.
Showing examples of other artist's work is fine but if that is all there is the author could just put together a book of "other people's ideas".
There are numerous other books on altered books and journals and I would encourage anyone interested in engaging in this craft look to those instead.
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