I have had such a lovely day on Saturday, full of creativity, receiving gifts, and ending with a really great phone conversation with a friend in the evening. My birthday present arrived from Ebay - my hubby is giving me a lovely boxed set of hardback books - the complete Chronicles of Narnia…
Why spoil a perfectly good ruler? A couple of weeks ago I found a spare plastic 12-inch ruler and knew I would put it to good use, having seen a really good YouTube video recently. This person had taken her ruler out into the garden and deliberately damaged the edge of it against…
Completing the completion! When I did my previous post, I reported that this storage unit was complete - until I decided to order a couple more boxes of the trays and really complete the job! (This photo is of the original sets I bought.) There are six trays in each box, with three…
Ink Storage Unit Today I completed the construction of my revolving ink storage unit. This latter part of this project, making the storage for my spray inks, was much more troublesome than I had hoped, and as a result it took much longer than I'd hoped, too. It isn't quite as neat and…
Storage for my spray inks It's been a good few days since I posted. I have been working hard on my ink pad/spray storage unit. This job has proved to be a lot more protracted than I had hoped, but I am on the home stretch now. From my previous post, you will…
A false start Following on from a previous blog post where I described my original plan for storing my spray inks, I have now had a major rethink about this. I bought a revolving spice rack from Amazon, thinking I could adapt it to hold my spray ink bottles, but the holes for…
Drying the papers It took over 24 hours for my faux rice papers to dry sufficiently to peel them off the plastic sheet. Following the instructions on the video where she suggests gently curling the very edge of each piece with the brush while the paper is still wet, it made it a…
I watched a YouTube video about creating faux rice paper today and knew I had to give this a try - it looked amazing and also a lot of fun to do. I mixed up some PVA glue and water to make a paintable solution, and separated out a small amount to which…
Spray Stains Storage Today the spice rack I ordered from Amazon arrived, to store my Distress Spray Stains in. Unboxing: It is quite substantial, and very well built. The glass spice jars have a plastic sprinkler top inside, under the metal lids (which have a blue protective film on them). It turns very…
New Distress Spray Stains and Oxide Sprays Today my parcel arrived, containing all the new Distress Spray Stains and Oxide Sprays that I ordered. I also got another Tim Holtz stencil, "Decayed" which is fabulous. I saw him using it when he was doing his Distress Spray Stains demo recently. I already…
