VIRTUAL WINDOWS! FURTHER COMPUTER ADVENTURES My existing system, working well but with some drawbacks I have one older HP Envy laptop still running Windows 11, in the studio for art work. I have some ancient software that won't run on Linux, which is now the operating system on my other two laptops. Linux…
CLEAR PACKAGING TAPE TRANSFERS Following Maremi Small Art on YouTube, today I made some more washi tape substitutes using clear packaging tape. I have got some old catalogues which came as junk mail from a local garden centre and they've got some pretty good pictures in them. I spent some time fussy cutting…
BEATRICE HOT-TUBBING IS NOW FRAMED Yesterday the frame for my recent coloured pencil drawing arrived, and I left it unopened until today when my hubby was out all day and I could work on it without fear of interruption. I am very pleased with the result. It is now gift-wrapped and ready for…
DIY WASHI TAPES - SOME NEW ONES Repeating patterns in Krita I have been working in Krita, the open-source photo editor on my Linux laptop, creating some more washi tapes. There is a useful facility for taking a single image and making it into a pattern, which is ideal when one wants to…
SQUARE TISSUE BOX FOLIO 1 - FLORAL Fortunately I have not had to pray for a cold! We are getting through my order of 12 cube-shaped tissue boxes fast enough for me to start upcycling the boxes. Again I am following Chasing Paper on YouTube for another of her excellent tutorials, and again,…
COLOURED PENCIL DRAWING - BEATRICE HOT TUBBING When we lived in our old house we had some concrete tubs on our patio, and for a while one of them was empty. Our old cat Beatrice (sadly no longer with us) discovered this and settled down in it. In the warm sunshine the concrete…
DIY WASHI TAPE - FINALISING THE CANDY STRIPE PROJECT A quick addendum to my previous posts about this DIY washi tape. Cutting the strips After thinking about this further, I managed to cut the strips using my guillotine. With the faulty-printed edge on the right, I lined up the other edge to the…
DIY WASHI TAPE - PAPER, PRINTING, CUTTING AND STORING The washi paper I really shouldn't say "washi paper" because "washi" means paper in Japanese! Anyway, the paper arrived. I was a little disappointed initially because it was not self-adhesive as I'd expected. After further research I discovered that the self-adhesive version is only…
FUSSY CUTTING DIGITALS I have recently downloaded quite a few digital kits for printing, mostly freebies from very generous artists who often create these to celebrate milestones in YouTube subscriber numbers, or for their birthdays and so on. I have also purchased a few kits. These are always very reasonably priced. Once you've…
RUBY WEDDING CARD Next month it is our ruby wedding anniversary (40 years). I found a photo online and made this coloured pencil drawing of two cut rubies, which I am making into a card for my hubby. I always find photographing coloured pencil drawings difficult. They always look so much better in…
