Altered 104: Everything: Everything [Paperback]

Beth Cote and friends teach us how to alter everything from small boxes and matchboxes to large books and globes. Here you will find journal ideas to feed your creativity and projects that inspire you to break out of the ordinary. Beth encourages you to push your creative envelope as you explore the immense potential of altered art. Altered books and altered art seem to fall into two categories: personalized and personal. Personalized art alters something to fit your creative style, while the art of the personal infuses a work with meaning, a message or an emotion. Each category has its benefits and pleasures. Altered 104 - Everything! offers both kinds of projects and ways to make the personalized the personal.

How to alter everything, from small boxes and matchboxes to large books and even globes!

Being asked to select a book to review from titles published by Design Originals and Fox Chapel Publishing was challenging because there are so many books in their publication portfolio. However, when I saw Altered 104 - Everything! by Beth Cote, I knew had to choose it.Altered art is a broad term that encompasses many styles and genres of art. Simply stated, it gives new life to utilitarian items through the application of artistic techniques. Altered art may serve a functional purpose, as well as being a creative and artistic piece.Altered 104 - Everything! is a book that is for all levels and types of artisans. Whether you have been altering items for many years or you want to try it for the first time, this is the book for you.This book has more than 50 projects that provide both intrigue and inspiration, while also helping you put meaning into your art. It is filled with photographs, detailed supply lists, step-by-step instructions, helpful tips and inspiring quotes.You will find colorful projects with instructions to design a necklace out of a mint tin, create a jewelry box using an old book, make a poem book using coasters and al“+