Thread: How I made my Witch library books.

These books are so fun and easy to make. Check thrift stores and garage sales for old books. Look for old jewelry, belts, beads ect. The craft stores are good places to find lettering and stamps.




Here is the book I am going to alter



Next crumple some of the pages or ripped edge looks cool but takes forever



choose a color and paint the book, usually takes 2 coats



next water down a darker paint, I chose black and dab on all over to age it and make it look dirty



next is the fun part, I use a serrated steak knife. Scrape all the edges and cut off a corner, have fun and do as little or as much as you like



The edges look to light or some of the book color may show so I use the base color watered down and go over the edges.



I use these letters that look like dried glue that I found at a craft store. I use a permanent marker to color the letters before I remove them



choose a title for your book



Choose some fun ornaments. I used a gold skull that was part of a necklace and a little corked bottle from a craft store.



After hot glueing on the ornaments it still looked like it was missing something. I used a spiderweb stamp and black ink.



Finished book



The library is growing and I still have several more books I want to make. I want to make an open book next

They look great. I will have to show my sister this.

If you want to ripple the pages try soaking them and letting them dry out. I know it does it to my news paper when it rains

Thanks for this. I'm doing a witches theme this year and these will be perfect, Your book's look amazing.

Fabulous!!!

to get a real good ripple effect spray the pages with Windex for a cool ripple when it dries

i had to do this at my old job when we got in stacks of new ones so they would not stick together

great work!

azazel, thanks for the tip I will give it a try.

These are great! Thanks for sharing!

yea me i finally got to give some one advice on something i knew about an was helpful

Inspired. Thanks