DOLLY POSTE: Altered Book & Tiny Collection

I SO love vintage illustrations, especially the tiny ones we never really see. So I created this box to hold an altered book full of my favorite ones. I used the actual illustrations and actual words.

 

The box that I made to hold the DOLLY POSTE Altered book is about 11" x 5". It was collage with various vintage papers, and a closure added with two buttons, crocheted loops and beaded posts. The tiny dolls were glued in place. The outside of the box is fabric padded over quilt batting.

 

 

 

Inside is a vintage photo of a little girl with her doll. I used a spiral bound book I found at my thrift store. The spiral binding spine was 11" and just right, but the pages were 9" wide so I trimmed them to 5" and turned the book on its side.

 

 

 

 

I used old sheets of a blank ledger journal to create the background of each page. I uses blank faux postage sheets to create the tiny faux Dolly Postage. I cut the little images from vintage paper materials, and added tiny words cut from the same materials.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the last page in the book. This is faux postage I made on the blank edge of a sheet of stamps I had. The girl is a tiny illustration from the 1930s. The date is my birth date.