New Altered Book Collage Layout & Free Vintage Printables

Today I make a collage layout in my latest altered book using original vintage ephemera. Follow along to see how it goes from blank page to finished layout.
To see my online courses, including How to Alter a Board Book, they are here:
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I also have a boatload of free printables of vintage paper and book covers scanned from my private collection. Check out the post to see them and how to make copies even if you don’t have a printer.
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To see how I prepared this book for altering the video is here:
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To see my online courses, including How to Alter a Board Book, they are here: kelly-s-school-b1d1.thinkific.com/collections

[@ninanavajas]

Thanks for your generosity, Kelly!! Love this spread

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Nina. It is always my pleasure to share The Good Stuff that I am so lucky to be the keeper of. I'm glad you like it and hope you can use it to make gorgeous pages! Kelly

[@debrawaterman7970]

I was happy to see a page layout video of yours pop up today. I love watching your process!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you, Debra. Some days you just feel the need to make and not worry about where it's going.

[@robertakeirn1870]

What a great video! Just when I needed a jolt of inspiration. You’re like the guiding hand of balance with these layouts and I appreciate you so much. You make my eyes so happy. 🖤Gilly

[@BookandPaperArts]

Well hello Gilly. Thanks for this. I haven't done a collage video in yonks but I felt like it was about all I could handle this week and making, just playing with elements and letting them tell me where they need to be on the page, is a healing thing. Kelly

[@sunnie2474]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Sunnie. This is always nice to hear and I appreciate it.

[@DonnaVintageSnippets]

Love watching you make your layouts! Your little antique book looks darling with that interesting binding that I can't wait to see!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you dear Donna. I'm not sure about the binding. At this point I'd like to leave it so you can see the buckram but it may be that when it chunks up that will not be viable. I'll keep you posted!

[@catincj1952]

ABSOLUTELY LOVE your stuff!!!!! just in case I forgot to tell you 😃

[@BookandPaperArts]

Wow, thank you Cat. Believe me, I never get tired of hearing it. 😺

[@andreahapgood400]

Beautiful, quirky, unique and cute as! What a delight is this already....I'm going to "'get up and go make something" as a result of the inspiration you've generously given here. Thank you.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Andrea, what a lovely message. This is what I like to hear - the getting up and going and making something. It's what makes the world go around! 🌷🌼🌻

[@pattipostcard8489]

Beautiful! I love your attitude and approach to using these old treasures to create something new.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Patti. Thanks for this. It is truly nice to hear. The first time you cut something like this out it is a shock but more and more I come to realise that so many of these old, crinkled, delicate magazine pages on newsprint are just going to turn to dust if they aren't turned into something else and this way they can go another round. Kelly

[@pattipostcard8489]

@@BookandPaperArts You're inspiring me to use some of the old book and magazine images I've got stashed away!

[@NormaBennettSYD]

I'm late to the party again! It's always interesting to accompany you through your process. Love the black and white.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Norma, the party doesn't start until you get here. 😺

[@NormaBennettSYD]

@BookandPaperArts 🙃 If everyone's "indulging" while they wait they'll be rolling around the floor by now!

[@annemcdonald5602]

Thank you for this fun video, Kelly. I'm looking forward to learning a new binding stitch.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thanks, Anne. Off to start sewing now!

[@novafalcosmith]

This is FANTASTIC ❤❤❤

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you, Nova. I do love a lady in a wild hat and an adorable, unidentifiable creature.

[@novafalcosmith]

@ love it

[@heleneebenstein9120]

Thank you for the layout demo and sharing your thoughts about what to put where.Always helpful. I look forward to the bookmaking video. The stitch is lovely.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thanks Helene. My first layout in months and I love it so.

[@Littlebleustudio]

Thank you for making such an inspirational video, I love vintage black and white pictures, and the blue book cover is just lovely. Thank you!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you for this. It is such a relief to get back to making layouts like this and there is a mystery to the black and white that always stops me in my visual tracks. 😺😺

[@denisecope]

Beautiful!!!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, dear Denise! 🌷🌼🌻

[@sandybe11]

Lovely layout! I hope you will show what more you will add to it, especially shading. Thank you so much for the printable‘s! Looking forward to the binding technique.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Sandy. I'll try to one layout a week - if I can force myself to wait that long!

[@deborahrymer1007]

Really lovely layout Kelly I hope we see the finished page. Looking forward to seeing the binding technique and to using the images. Thank you!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thanks for stopping by, Deborah. You are so welcome for the printables. It seems a shame not to share the good stuff.

[@andreahmueller]

Hello Kelly, I really enjoyed your process of putting this collage together 😍 thank you for all your tips 🥰

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hello there Andrea. Thanks for this. Strangely it took me years to realise that what I was doing in these pages WAS collage. Now I embrace it. 🌷🌼🌻

[@andreahmueller]

👍🏻 😍 that's why we all love your processes, we can see and feel how much you love putting all parts together 😍

[@JournalBreezeYT]

That is a weird looking animal, an enigma in these times. I never would have thought of adding that with the other gorgeous pieces in your collage!rious about the new binding technique, I've not seen it before either. TFS today Kelly!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Kimberly. That's one of the things that I adore about really old animal drawings - you get the feeling that they are just making it up as they go along and who is going to contradict them? I like to add something a little droll (is that the right word) to offset the intense pretty. Pretty is fine, I like it, but a little bit wry is even better.

[@JournalBreezeYT]

@BookandPaperArts I hear that! It does arise curiosity in one. I also wondered if it was real somewhere or at sometime on earth. I've come to realize after watching hundreds of animal Reels on IG, that there are many animals out there in people's homes that are new to me. Your wry one looks ancient 😉

[@greenspiral2955]

Well this was fun, thank you for sharing your process. I'm glad you saved the pansy for later as it would have been on it's side.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi there. Thanks for stopping by and the feedback. You are quite right about orienting the pansy although I do find that sometimes when I am improvising I squint my eyes and turn things around anyway. It builds character. 😺

[@greenspiral2955]

@BookandPaperArts funny you should say about squinting eyes as this is something I want to do a lot more of! Also sometimes I just have to leave a comment to show appreciation and of course boost the algorithm too. There is just soo much talent on here and thanks to kind voices such as yours are always a good reminder to 'less daunting, more daring dear'.

[@alexandraalmeida3661]

I love the way the pages turned out, although I know they’re not finished. The fact that they’re black and white takes us back to old times and gives it a bit of melancholy look (in a good way). It’s really one of my favourites 🖤🩶🤍🖤🩶🤍🖤🩶🤍🖤🩶🤍

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Alexandra. I agree that there can be beauty and depth in that melancholy, and mystery. 🌷🌼🌻

[@jipse_sol]

LOVE it!! Please post videos daily for me 😂

[@BookandPaperArts]

Golly, this is what I like to hear. Thanks for the feedback as I sometimes worry about overposting! Kelly

[@shawnas464]

Thank you so much!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Shawn, it is my very real pleasure.

[@debsmith7050]

Great page 😊

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thanks bunches, Deb. 😺

[@rickiquilt]

Thanks Kelly!! Loved all the tricks of the trade!!!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Ricki, it is my real pleasure. It is funny that one of the better ways to teach collage is by talking about what doesn't work but - there it is! Thanks for stopping by. Kelly

[@fyrtalker]

I love the way you explain your process, thank you! We have an endangered animal here in the San Joaquin Valley of California called a Kit Fox. Your anonymous animal reminds me of them. Those ears!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Ooh, I will have to look up Kit Foxes. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Linda. I found awhile back that one of the best ways to teach collage is to explain what doesn't work as well as what does.

[@barbaragins4845]

This cute little guy might be a Fennek 'desert fox'. He fits very well in this delicate ambiente you created. I'm looking at your works with admiration. Thanks for sharing dear Kelly

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Barbara. Thanks for this. He certainly looks like a Fennek fox but in my book of illustrations there was another fox labelled Fennec fox so I am wondering if the illustrator was confused, or maybe just I am. 😺😺

[@melindareynolds7867]

Nice collage. Thank you for the free printable.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Melinda, it is my very real pleasure. I hope you make something gorgeous!

[@cheminnonpris]

Hi, just a question Do you have any courses in London? I enjoyed every single part of this video❤, tonnes of thanks

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hello there. I do not although I would like to. Alternatively, I would be happy to meet for a cuppa the next time I visit London for some gallery hopping and we would compare creative notes then OR let me know if you ever get down Swansea ways. My email is: [e-mail] Thanks a bunch!

[@bonnieforbes8680]

love your work and where can you fine the lady to down load . i cant fine her love to have her to go with my other lady y bonnie

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Bonnie. While I don't have this particular lady to download, here is a link to a similar one. Maybe I will put some more like this up in the next few weeks so stay posted! bookandpaperarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/oversize-1881-in-walking-suit-resized-2-676x930.jpeg