Altered Book: The Cover

As a reminder, here is the book I've decided to alter for my Altered Book Round Robin.

After some serious deliberation, I decided I wanted to try making the cover look like stained glass, giving it color and depth. In order to do that, my plan was to do shape cut-outs of both paper and the cover. Having never tried anything like this before, I made a trip to my local Michael's (always a good time) to pick up an X-acto knife and cutting mat.


I drew my pattern on the back of black metallic cardstock and began cutting.

I glued my stain-glass frame to the book cover and used it as a stencil to make the same cut-outs through the cover, exposing the text beneath. The back cover actually turned out to be my favorite.

Front cover

Back cover.

I left some of the spaces filled in the back cover. In fact, it turned out so well that I didn't fill in with color for my stained glass look either. I just liked how it looked. 

After a mess of glue and tissue paper!

It seemed appropriate that the introduction should be the place where people introduce themselves and their additions to my book!

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