Summer Reading- NOT!

When I was a kid, I spent my summers reading books. Now as an adult, I am altering books this summer. This book was a 25 cent thrift store find with a shabby chic robin's egg blue cover so it had to be for Linda (a RAK). I was going to send the book as-is, but then decided an altered spread would be more special. Can't wait to see what she adds to it.

I created my pocket spread by folding two consecutive pages into triangles and tacking them down with tiny brads (disguised as flower centers). I used cheap water colors to paint the pages so the book's manuscript came through and added the wide lace for texture and symmetry. Tags were embellished with many hostess RAKs I have collected from when I hosted swaps this past spring. The dymo labels are actually stickers and I also used bird and egg clip art, some nest wrapping paper, actual handwritten manuscript about birds (school papers from a great aunt), some vintage postage and self adhesive paper lace trim (K&Co.). Stay tuned for more altered books! The beautiful scans were provided by Linda, since in my excitement to get the book into the mail, I neglected to take pictures. Thank you, Linda!!!