ECO-PRINTING - FIRST EXPERIMENTS WITH EMBOSSING MACHINE Collecting leaves Today my hubby came home armed with a wonderful collection of leaves for me to play with in the studio. I thought I'd better get on with this project as soon as possible, before the leaves dried out too much and became papery and…
PACKAGING PAPER CLUSTERS WITH GOLD HEAT EMBOSSING I am indebted to Luise Heinzl for her layered moths on heat embossed coffee-stains tutorial for this project. I have adapted it slightly for my own use. She used a cup dipped in coffee to make her circular marks for the base layer of her clusters,…
RUST WATER I am grateful to Dragana of Saacibo on YouTube for her instructions on how to make rust water. This cheap as chips resource, completely new to me until I started following her, is an amazing addition to the studio, producing stunning and most unusual effects. She also has instructions on how…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 18 Getting back into this junk journal project after a short break. The first page of Folio 4 of the second signature is a piece of watercolour paper with teabag stains on it. I made this a long time ago, by laying out used teabags…
COMPLETING THE RIBBON BEAD DANGLES PROJECT I have now finished embellishing all the sparkly ribbon beads which I made. After my last post, I found that I had not completed the longer beads. Here is the remainder of them, duly embellished. The round beads I then began to embellish the smaller round beads,…
ORGANISING MY RIBBON SCRAPS I have a couple of shallow boxes of spools of ribbon which are organised enough, but I also have a huge quantity of ribbon scraps of varying lengths not on spools. Up until now, they have been stored in a small antique leather case inherited from my grandmother, in…
RIBBON BEAD DANGLES The other day I watched a YouTube video from HappyBird's Glitter Nest on how to make sparkly ribbon beads. I was intrigued by this as I am currently making some more charms and embellishments, after recently organising my charms. These beads are quite easy to make, and very lightweight. You…
SHOPPING TRIP TO NEWTON ABBOT - NEW ART STASH Yesterday I had my annual appointment at the bank to discuss my finances. We always combine this with a shopping trip and lunch out at our favourite restaurant - the Pizza Cafe, which has been run by the same family for 38 years! This…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 17 Continuing to work on the second signature of the album. The third folio This is very rich, consisting of a large piece of thin gold foil forming the basis of the folio. As it is so thin, it has required some reinforcement at the…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 16 Continuing to work on the second signature of the album. The second folio I've bundled together three smaller pieces to form the second folio rather than treating them as individual ones. The dark translucent page forming the outer layer of this series is a…
