ISLAMIC ART - SHAMSA PART 1 - THE DRAWING A second-hand frame At the recent village fete we attended, my hubby bought a large square picture frame. I immediately saw potential in this for my own work and begged it off him - he gave it to me a little reluctantly! None of…
PEARLS - COLOURED PENCILS After working hard over quite a long period on my Infusions mini-album, I felt like doing something completely different today. Feeling rather tired, I wasted a lot of time on Pinterest (my goodness, that site is addictive and the time just slips by!!) looking for inspiration for something to…
INFUSIONS MINI-ALBUM - THE SPINE EMBELLISHMENT AND COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT Now that I had finally sorted out all the problems with binding the mini-books, I was able to concentrate on the final stage of the project: the spine embellishment. Tassel I found this fancy ball of yarn in my stash, and was…
INFUSIONS MINI-ALBUM - SUCCESS AT LAST! After all my recent struggles to attach the mini-books inside the binding, I am very happy to report that I have succeeded at last! I should have gone with my initial plan (apart from the slipping-under-the-belly-band idea) - MAGNETS!! Magnets I did a little experiment a couple…
INFUSIONS MINI-ALBUM - A VERY TRYING TIME Ever since I discovered that glueing the mini-books inside the back cover was not going to work, I have struggled with this project. Everything I try seems to fall flat on its face. It is extremely frustrating. My first plan My first idea was to make…
MASK AND SPRAY - VISITING AN OLD TECHNIQUE In the process of re-thinking the binding of my Infusions Mini-Album because of an unexpected problem, I needed some flowers for the process. When I was doing this technique several years ago, I made a lot of Infusions-coloured flower pieces but I had used most…
INFUSIONS MINI-ALBUM - COMPLETING THE COVER I have at last completed the cover with its inner parts, but I have had to re-think various things which were not going to work. Vellum disaster! Vellum can be a pain to deal with. It's very sensitive to moisture and 99 percent of glues aren't any…
INFUSIONS MINI-ALBUM - WORKING ON THE INNER COVER AND TAG EMBELLISHMENTS Now that the cover construction was complete, I was able work on embellishing the inside. End papers I trimmed down the larger sheets of Infusions papers to size and glued them in place inside the cover, leaving a very narrow black border…
INFUSIONS MINI-ALBUM - PROGRESS ON SEVERAL FRONTS I've had another couple of very fruitful sessions in the studio working on my Infusions Mini-Album. Cover Sometimes it's hard to find patterned paper which is large enough for book covers. For most crafters, the largest size available is 12 x 12 in, which is usually…
INFUSIONS MINI-ALBUM - THE THREE VOLUMES COMPLETED All three small volumes of this album have now been completed and bound. There were a number of title pages to complete, and tags as well. I was glad I still had my printed instructions, so I was able to complete this task. The completed volumes…
