EXPERIMENTS WITH CICADA WING PAPER The other day my order of cicada wing paper arrived from Amazon. It took a while to arrive, coming from China. This natural-coloured extremely thin paper is supposed to be for Chinese calligraphy. People often ask if this is made from actual cicada wings but no - I…
TYPEWRITER ALBUM PART 7 - A FLORAL PAGE As I mentioned before, I am not following a particular schedule with this project, but just flipping through the prepared signatures and deciding to work on one, whatever order they are in. This page is also in the second signature. It is the third one…
TYPEWRITER ALBUM PART 6 - FROM DISASTER IN PINK TO IN THE PINK In mixed media, there is no such thing as a mistake. There are only more layers! Background Yesterday I began work on the outside of the wings of the centrefold typewriter image in the second signature. I made a mistake…
AN EXCITING GIFT - PIANOLA ROLLS Pianola roll paper has recently become quite popular in the mixed media junk journaling world, and I was keen to obtain some. My hubby has a friend who deals in old pianos and he asked him if he had any rolls to spare, and he brought them…
TYPEWRITER ALBUM PART 5 - TRANSPARENCIES A way to add more interest to an album is to introduce transparent pages or embellishments. Luise Heinzl frequently does this. I was able to print on acetate with my old laser printer but wasn't sure how it would work out on the new one. I am…
TYPEWRITER ALBUM PART 4 - BEGINNING WORK ON THE PAGES Another very fruitful session in the studio this afternoon. I began working on the pages for the album. I am not following any particular order but just going with the creative flow. Signature 1 - blue text page The blue text printout has…
TYPEWRITER ALBUM PART 3 - BUTTERFLIES Today I have had a wonderful time splashing about with spray inks in the studio, and a somewhat frustrating time with die-cutting. Butterflies I am making a collection of butterflies and butterfly-themed papers for the Typewriter Album. Several weeks ago I bought Tim Holtz's "Perspective Butterfly" die…
SCRAP BUSTING - LUISE HEINZL'S MIXED MEDIA MASTERBOARDS - MY SECOND ONE Following on from my previous post where I detailed the creation of the first masterboard, I will now pick up where I left the second one, where I added inks to the wet gesso layer. White acrylic layer I painted on…
TYPEWRITER ALBUM PART 2 - PLANNING THE SIGNATURES Having selected the papers for the pages, the next step was to sort them and decide on the structure of the signatures. This is only a plan at this stage and changes will inevitably take place as the work progresses but at least I've got…
TYPEWRITER ALBUM PART 1 - CHOOSING THE PAPERS FOR THE PAGES A new project which is also part of my scrap and stash busting mission. I recently downloaded Luise Heinzl's Typewriter Ephemera digital kit, which consists of various album elements such as tags, journaling cards and page tabs. Over the past months I…
