A Grand Voyage...

Well it's time to prep a book ready for Darcy's Postcards around the world challenge starting in January, was going to alter a book then spotted this in The Works...

Perfect!
butcher and remove all but 26 pages, and replace paper front piece with board, job done :D
Now to decorate.

I have this old(1968) A3 Reader's Digest atlas.

I thought "rip out maps for backing papers, and you've got an A3 book cover to alter :D"

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!!

I'd rather cut my own hand off!!!! This book is definitely listed under Treasure....so I took some photo's of this page showing trade/exploration routes and printed them off instead :D
Painted board covers with acrylic and clear gesso, glued on printed maps(after scrunching and sanding and inking)

Dry brushed white acrylic around edges and stamped with black stazon
Added colour with Inktense pencils(must remember to seal with spray varnish!!)
then re assemble book

All in all I'm quite pleased with it so far.....needs a title plaque.

What did they call it when victorians went walk-about to europe and asia???

Probably last post before xmas(maybe not ;D) So wishing all my blogland buddies much joy and few puter problems for 2012 :D XXX