RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM - COMPLETION OF THE FIRST FOLIO I have now completed the first folio, made from the first bag, of this recycled bag album. This has been a lot of fun. Completion of the centrefold In my previous post about this album, I showed the photos of the centrefold, pretty…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM Today I made good progress on this new project and completed the first page of the first bag. Recap Firstly these are the bags I am working on. They are made of thin brown paper with a glassine panel on the front. They are no longer being used by…
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…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM - FIFTH PAGE - CIRCLES WITH CIRCLE TO SQUARE FOLD-OUT The next page to come up in my Oriental style album was green, and both background papers featured circles, so I decided to run with this. Although the predominant colour is green, there are touches of dark red so I…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM - A COMPLEX POP-UP, AND SOME VIDEOS AT LAST! ALSO KITTIES AND EASTER I have been busy with the Oriental Style Album, creating more elements and working on some videos of the work in progress. Eventually I shall make a flip-through of the whole album, once the project is completed,…
SOME EMBELLISHMENTS FOR THE ORIENTAL ALBUM, AND A FAN POP-UP I've been working on a few embellishments to go in my 8 x 8-in Oriental-style album. Some of the pages really don't need much adding to them so I'm keeping them simple, and splashing out on the other ones. I've been following various…
A PINK PAGE IN MY ORIENTAL-THEMED ALBUM Having made a large collection of elements ready to create embellishments for my 8 x 8-in Oriental-themed album, I was keen to start working on the pages. I decided to leave the second spread for now and work on the next one which has a pink…
