Product Description

Altered Books 102 goes beyond the basics and puts you on a creative path to absorb, learn and experiment. Professional artist Beth Cote assembled a talented design team and invited them to contribute their own personal imaginative visions and creative pathways to altered art.

This is an advanced book, a step beyond Altered Books 101, that skips the beginning techniques and goes straight to the basics of paper engineering. You will learn advanced techniques such as how to make pop-ups, parallel folds, fiber tents, stacked windows, pull tabs, suspended images, spinners, stucco doors, crackled covers, clever cages, computer art, membrane transfers, tape transfers, tissue paper castings, cemented backgrounds and many others.

Get mini lessons on how to use craft store materials such as molding paste, walnut ink, oil pastels, gesso, fluid acrylics and Pinata Inks, plus how to install eyelets, rivets, nailheads and grommets. See how to work with metals, ribbons, chiffon, vintage beadwork, rubber stamp images and machine stitching. And that’s not all. Learn the secrets to collage... finding the materials, where to start, how to alter collage materials and how to make your own backgrounds.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340409 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 51 pages

About the Author
Beth Cote is a professional artist who works with mixed media and book arts. Her focus is altered books. She travels across the country teaching popular paper arts workshops, retreats, shops and conventions.

Customer Reviews

A Great Addition
My experience with this book was certainly different from that of the reader above. I loved the book. I have referred to it many times and have tried many of the ideas. I recommend it completely, and I am plan on buying 103 as soon as I can.

Another Helpful Book
If you want to learn to make altered books, Beth Cote's Altered Books 101 is a great place to start, and this book is more of the same. Nice color illustrations and technique explanations. These are the thinner "magazine" type books but there is a lot of info packed in. I love looking at the photos - it really inspires you to get going! I would definitely recommend getting 101 and 102. If you are only going to try one for now, get Altered Books 101.

Bizarrely disorganized
I had high hopes for this book, but it is so disorganized as to be essentially useless. Each page is a jumble of illustrations and instructions, but there's no way of telling which illustration (if any) goes with any given set of instructions. Some of the instructions begin at the bottom of the page and continue at the top of the same page. And the instructions themselves are hurried and unintelligible.