A Vintage Journey.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Pleased to have been invited to be a guest designer at A Vintage Journey and I'm here today to show you what I've made.

The theme is 'Altered Art' and was just the push I needed to use a whole collection of boxes I've collected recently.

Now I make no apology but this is photo heavy but I didn't want anyone to miss out on how I made this so get a drink and sit back while I show you what I did.

So the first thing was to trim away the flaps.

And work out the cover.

 

Allowing enough space in the centre for the depth of the pages.

 

Using an old paperback book I covered the front.

 

Spread the glue well to ensure this sticks down fully.

 

 I covered the front of the boxes with more of the old book pages and then started decorating the front cover with textured gel.

 

And then applied Distress Oxide inks.

 

At this stage I started to build up the  design for the cover.

I have die cut several of the Broken Maze and glued them together to give depth, added crackle glaze and then painted them.

 

 

 

Finished them off with Treasure Gold, gilding wax.

 

 

Next I started the inner pages using various Seth Apter stencils.

 

Coloured these with Distress Oxides.

 

Then used Seth Apter Stamps and dies to decorate the pages.

I used more of the paperback pages to cover the back sections.

 

I glued the very front of the pages together.

 

 

And attached paper clips to hold them until dry.

 

 

The pages can be seen here after the clips were removed.

 

 

Now they are ready to be attached to the cover.

 

Where would we be without those paper clips!

 

So here we are all finished.

The front cover.

 

The metal embellishment is by Prima but not sure about the key, just found it in my stash.

 

Lots of lovely detail inside.

 

 

A few bits of Tim Holtz got in there too.

All that Seth stuff just works so well together, love it.

 

If you managed to stay till the end then well done you!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and any comments will be gratefully accepted.

 

Happy crafting everyone.

 

Angela xXx

 

I would like to enter this project in the following challenges:

Mini Album Makers Challenge Blog launch.
Art Journal Journey# 'Colour In My World'
Country View Challenges # September 2017- 'Metal'
 Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge 30 - 'Anything Mixed Media Goes'
Stamps and Stencils: Challenge - Metallics.
San Dee&Amelie's SteampunkChallenges September 2017 - Anything Goes Steampunk/Industrial.