Creative Spirit
By Sara Naumann

What’s summer without an imaginative project in the works? For a creative challenge, try your hand at a unique paper craft—altered books! Sara created this special book with moveable windows to hide special little messages.

Sara’s Supplies:

• Paper Pizazz® Words, Letters & Textured Papers
• Paper Pizazz® Definitions & Words Ephemera
• Paper Pizazz® Embossed Pewter & Copper Fragments
• Paper Pizazz® 5 Square Slide Mount Treasures
• 1Paper Pizazz® Tags #2 Template
• silver mini brads
• blue decorating chalk: Craf-T
• 3” Jumbo Circle Punch
• Alter-Able Hardbound Book
• X-acto® Knife, cutting mat

Creating Your Book

Cover the Pages
Sara covered the left book page with letters paper.

Tags
Use the template to make four tags, then add brads, definitions, embossed paper fragments and a slide mount. Use chalk to shade the tags and highlight words in the definitions.

Windows
Punch three circle from the textured paper, then make tabs from letters paper. Ink all the edges and attach the circles to the textured paper with brads. Add inked slide mounts and embossed paper fragments to the circles and inside the windows.

Project reprinted from More Altered Books. More Altered Books features a variety of ideas on creating altered books with techniques like tag art, direct-to-paper inking and more.