Altered Book: April

I know it's May, but better late than never. Book number 3 in my altered book round robin.

I was incredibly excited when I received this book in the mail (and also nervous!). I was excited because this book was started by a college friend of mine who is truly wonderful and nervous because she is incredibly talented. I sincerely hope I did her book justice. Her book cover is an outline of her silhouette and the sign-in page is a map were each person identifies their city (clever, of course). The next artist tried to incorporate the map idea, and I wanted to try and combine both the map and silhouette.

You don't have to know me for very long to know that I have an intense love for my home state of Wisconsin. (Entirely justified. . . the entire state is built on cheese and beer. Be still my heart.)

I went back to my newly acquired X-acto knife skills developed here. I made a cut-out silhouette of Wisconsin. (Definitely traced. I wish could make a perfect free-hand outline of the greatest state in the union.)

I made a few patterned Wisconsins to fill in the cut-outs, and chose to fill the last one with a map of my home town.

They turned out ok when layered, but was hoping to be able to see the map more clearly. I made a tedious decision to cut out all the counties. (I thought it looked pretty good when I got half way through, so called it a day.)

The final product. I think this may turn out to be one of my favorites.