POUCHES FROM EMBOSSED TOILET PAPER ROLLS - ADDING THE EMBELLISHMENTS This is a follow-up to my earlier post on how to make little pouches and hidden paperclips from toilet paper rolls. Here are the pouches after I had finished constructing them. Time to have some fun with embellishments! These are the fronts of…
POUCHES AND PAPERCLIPS FROM TOILET PAPER ROLLS Continuing with my album elements project, I have made a collection of items from the cores of toilet paper rolls. I recently came across a YouTube video and learnt how to emboss the toilet rolls and make tiny pouches out of them. As I folded and…
DIVIDE AND RULE - ISLAMIC ART No - that isn't a political statement - it's an art project using some exciting new drawing equipment! Divide and Rule Some time ago I came across a YouTube short, showing an exciting collection of specialist drawing materials. I was intrigued, and visited the site, "Divide and…
OVAL WINDOW POCKET WITH PULL-OUT TAGS - CORRECTED AND COMPLETED When I first worked on this element, I intended to make a pull-out tag for both the larger oval window and the smaller round one, but forgot the latter. I thought it would be too late to do anything about it as I…
2025 - END OF YEAR REVIEW It's been a relatively quiet year, all told. Not a great deal to report on our normal activities. Most of my activity this year has been art-related. Studio changes I got some great new shelving units for the studio and reorganised things to make life a lot…
OVAL WINDOW POCKET WITH PULL-OUT TAG This is the album element I made this afternoon from some Easter egg packaging. This interesting piece has been in my stash for ages and I wanted to do something which would feature both windows - the oval one and the small round one. Folding and trimming…
ALBUM ELEMENTS FROM CHRISTMAS TRASH I'm slipping. I'm definitely slipping. I actually threw something in the bin before I looked at it to see if I could make art out of it! It was the cardboard wrapper which had been round the Christmas pudding I'd bought. On examination I decided it definitely had…
A POCKET OF POCKETS Continuing to build my stash of album elements and embellishments. This morning I watched a YouTube video where different ideas for junk journals were being explored, and among them was a floating pocket with subsidiary pockets front and back. It was quite attractive, and was folded from a single…
POCKETS AND PAPERCLIPS Continuing my plan to mass-make various elements for future album projects. Rescuing materials from the recycle bin I have a large box of all kinds of intriguing rubbish - cardboard packaging, greetings cards (often with detachable or interactive elements), window envelopes and so on. Having just made a load of…
DIGITISING MY MIXED MEDIA PAPERS To get more use out of my recently created papers, I decided to scan them and digitise them. I really liked the detail shots I took of the papers, and decided to digitise these too. For a different and somewhat cleaner look, I made the rather rash decision…
