FUSSY CTTING DIGITAL PEOPLE, STUDIO ORGANISING AND THE EPHEMERA DILEMMA Fussy cutting Digital People I have long been intrigued by Tim Holtz's Paper Dolls and have toyed with the idea of buying them, but when I signed up to the Graphics Fairy Premium Membership site, I discovered that they had a bundle called…
VILLAGE FETE HAUL Yesterday afternoon my hubby and I returned to the village where we used to live, in order to join in their annual village fete. It's always held in the same field and it's always a lot of fun, with various stalls, and usually some kind of entertainment. This time the…
RECYCLING AND COLLAGE Today I felt the need to do some more collage. A few months ago I finished my Organic Journal and absolutely loved the latter pages which were all intuitive collage. I have got a lot of gel printed papers and special papers that I've made up myself, as well as…
ORIENTAL-STYLE ALBUM - PUZZLE PAGE Out there in YouTube land, I found a wonderful interactive album on an Alice theme by Rosa Kelly, and she included a puzzle page with flaps that could be lifted to reveal a second picture hidden underneath, a bit like an Advent calendar. I loved this idea and…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM - IRIS SHUTTER PAGE It's been over a month since I did any work on this project. I have been mulling over doing an iris shutter interactive element and kept putting it off as it involved getting myself organised, tidying the studio and making room for my downstairs laptop so…
USING WEEDED PAPER FROM CUTTING MACHINE AS A STENCIL After I had cut out the pieces to make several iris shutter mechanisms, I looked at the weeded sheets when I'd removed them from the cutting mat, and thought that they might make interesting stencils. I took a piece of Amazon packaging paper and…
IRIS SHUTTERS AND VOLVELLES I love 3-D paper projects, pop-ups and mechanicals. I finally got around to cutting some pieces to make iris shutters for my Oriental-style album, and making a cutting file for a volvelle. Iris Shutters Some time ago I came across a cutting die to make iris shutters but it…
NEW STASH, UPCYCLING A FLOWER BOX, AND CONJOINED TWIN VEGGIES New stash I decided to take advantage of the opening sale from Temu. I got a whole lot of stuff with huge amounts of discount. I stocked up on new beads and various other bits and pieces for the studio. A few closer…
SKIRTING THE ISSUE At the County Show last month, I bought some new clothes from an ethnic clothing stand, including a long multi-coloured tiered skirt made from 80 percent silk. Absolutely gorgeous, except that it had a deep shirred band at the top, and I really don't like this style. I bought a…
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE ISN'T ALL BAD I decided it was high time I bought some new slippers. My poor old slipper! I ordered two pairs from an Ebay shop, and when the parcel arrived today, they'd sent the wrong ones. I got straight onto them and they apologised profusely for mixing my order…
