Are you ready for part two of the altered book of curiosities I started?

If you missed part one, you can see that here: Book of Curiosities Altered Book - Part 1. 

This time I created four pages instead of just three but two are basically the same.

Altered Book of Curiosities - Part 2

As I stated in part one, I'm using things I've saved, found, or already had in my craft stash to create this little altered book.

The first three pages were created around a smashed pop bottle cap and a rusty paperclip I found on the ground, an old orphaned greeting card envelope that had yellowed, some pressed flowers from a bouquet I received, and a piece of broken windshield glass from a car wreck that my daughter was in once.

This time, I used the following found or saved things:

• bird's feathers I've picked up and collected
• a coffee-stained piece of paper
• paint sample chips
• a vintage button, lapel pin, a round piece of glass, and sewing notions
• some twigs from the yard

Here's the video I made showing my creation process, I hope you like it.

Pages One and Two - Found Bird Feathers

Then I made little hand-stamped specimen tags and splattered the pages with paint using an old toothbrush.

Did you know that you can use Google Lens to snap a picture and look up what kinds of feathers you have?

Page Three - The Collector

This page was created with a piece of notepad paper that had coffee spilled on it, some paint color sample swatches, an old button, a plastic sales tax token, a torn piece of a sewing notion card (it has hooks and eyes on it), another interesting found object that I have no idea what it is, lol, and a gold paper frame thing.

This page reminds me of a collection of things that a magpie might collect!

I have a roll of gummed carton sealing tape that I took from a job I had many years ago. We used it to seal up the packages we were sending out. The adhesive is activated with water so you just wet the back of the tape.

I used one of the paint sample cards to trace a frame onto the other card.

And then I glued the coffee-stained page and the paint sample frame onto the page.

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I then used some dried moss and created a little bird's nest and added some tiny plastic eggs.

The butterfly and the mushrooms are from the Tim Holtz Field Notes Snippet Ephemera Pack. I added the things I'd collected here and there on the page. The mini magnifying glass was created from a round piece of glass I had and a miniature golf club for the handle. You can see that creation in the video!

I sprayed it with distress ink and colored the edge of the page with a green Sharpie.

Here's the finished page!

Page Four - Do Something Green Today

For this page, I used some twigs from the yard, more paint sample cards, an old book page, some pressed flowers from a bouquet I received, and an old lapel pin!

First, I gathered up some twigs from the yard and broke them into little 1 to 2-inch pieces.

I used a page from an old book...

...and a paint sample card to create the background for this page.

Then I started layering the little twig pieces to create a heart shape on another paint card.

I layered in a strip of paper that I used a decorative edge punch on and some pressed flowers from a bouquet I received.

I added another piece of a paint card with the edge punched, a piece of twine that I pulled out of some burlap fabric, and a vintage lapel pin.

The tag says "do something green today." Very appropriate for these two pages don't you think?! 😊

The pin says "Norma."

I did not really plan for these two pages to go together but they kind of do, don't they!?

Well, that's it for part two of the altered book of curiosities, I'm already working on the pages for part four!!