I especially love the stained inner pages of the book - I will have to try that with the next book I bind. Great work!

I love these - very inspirational, especially  in using up some craft-stash. And it's not something my husband would kill me over, either which is just great!

I was inspired by some of the other posts I had seen on the board regarding altered puzzles and so I put myself to work creating a fantasy or dragon themed piece of art.



I had a brand new Hello Kitty puzzle that I had bought for someone but never ended up mailing it out and though I would be able to use it to make an altered puzzle. First off - this puzzle was a hundred pieces. I do not recommend using a 100 piece puzzle when you're going to alter it - it was sooooo time consuming and rather tedious.

What I did was take one of my husbands old day calendars (the kind you keep on your desk at work and tear off each sheet every day). This one was from 2008 and it had been sitting in my craft room begging to be used - so what I did was take each puzzle piece, one by one, and trace onto the calendar sheet, cut out the puzzle piece shape and the glue (just a glue stick) directly onto poor Hello Kitty.

From there it took me a couple days to do all of them (again - 100 - VERY tedious) and when I was done, I started putting the puzzle together. This was probably the hardest part, as I had to do the puzzle blank cardboard side up (white side up).



I should also mention that I began by trimming the edges of each puzzle piece with a fine tipped Xacto knife, but - sharp though it was - it was making a mess of the edges of the designed paper (which is about the thickness of very thin magazine pages). So I ended up leaving all but about 3 of them without trimming and it actually worked out absolutely perfectly.

Because the paper was so thin, as I pushed them into place, backwards, the paper folded around the edges and tightly sealed each piece together.

Once it was put together, I used Weldbond glue (probably the best white glue you can get out there, imho) to glue the puzzle art onto a canvas I had painted black so that I can hang it up in our dragon-themed kitchen.

From there I let it dry for a couple of hours and then used some Delta Creamcoat Gloss Interior Varnish, two coats.

I was a little disappointed that the varnish made the images on the puzzles wrinkle - though it does give it a more 3D look - I think it will look great on the wall as soon as the rest of the varnish dries.



So I've ended up with a very sporadic dragon collage made out of puzzle pieces. My husband, when asked what he thought of it said: "It's interesting"  lol - so I'm not sure what he really thinks of it (he's the dragon fan)

I will definitely be employing this technique, especially for sending things off to penpals - I have some magazines that are just begging to be made into bags Thanks!

I've used that exact same instructable to make my own books before - I've made two so far and I like my second attempt much better - there's things you definitely notice and fix for your second attempt at book binding - but it's so much fun when you're right in the middle of it

What a great use for the movie tickets - my husband keeps all the movie tickets from every movie we go to, so I've got a little box full of them - I think maybe I'll give him a new project to put them to good use

I would totally put that up in my kitchen - though I would probably make it a Tea Fairy as we're all addicted to tea over here

Great use of books for recycling - I love it!

I absolutely love it - old books and Alice in Wonderland definitely go together - I shall have to try it out myself Thanks for posting!

What a lovely and unique way to use a Ouija board - I would have never thought of this - great work!