PRAYER BIBLE - COMPLETING THE TABS AND EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT MEDIA FOR EMBELLISHMENT The tabs All the theme tabs on my Prayer Bible are now complete, and glued in place, with the verses highlighted and the respective theme written in the top margin. The Bible is now ready for use as a Prayer…
Warning: This is a very long post! Click on the links to take you to the relevant posts for more details. Quite an eventful year, one way and another. On the artistic front I have embarked on some new ventures, I've acquired quite a bit of new stash, some lovely books... Several gorgeous…
STUFF FROM MARGARET, KITTIES AND MORE MINI-EMBELLISHMENTS Our neighbour Margaret has obviously been having a clear-out. She has now given me several bags of bits and bobs from her crafting days, and with the last lot, I thought I really should do something with them! Some of the earlier stuff has been put…
THE END OF AN ERA, AND BLACK BOTANICALS ALBUM - FLOWERS FROM STAMPS The end of an era Yesterday, the nation, the Commonwealth, and the wider world, mourned the passing of our beloved Queen, the longest reigning monarch, having reigned over us for seventy years. I was able to sit and watch the…
BOOK ALTERING, GEL PRINTING AND DIATOMS A busy couple of sessions in my studio today. Altered book A while back, my hubby gave me some old large format hardback books he no longer wanted, which were perfect for altering. I have never altered a book before (apart from my recent Organic Journal which…
Having done my white pencil outline drawing a few days ago: Today I got out my Pebeo fluid acrylics and proceeded to paint the ginkgo branch. I set up my table with the two pages lined up and taped down in place. I used the white non-stick craft mat on the right of…
Another session in the studio this afternoon began somewhat unpromisingly, but it redeemed itself in the form of "practice makes perfect," and another page in my Organic Journal. Ink dipping I'm not sure what this technique is really called, because I couldn't find the video I saw several months ago. Froyle was doing…
I have not blogged for a while because I have been extremely busy designing stencils and masks for my new gel press. This has been very time-consuming as Inkscape, the powerful free vector drawing program, is a continuous learning curve for me and I have encountered various problems along the way which took…
Fun with teabags I do love teabag art! Yesterday I began a new page in my beautiful Organic Journal, by decorating a dozen teabags to stick down in a grid pattern as a kind of teabag design sampler. I kept the colour palette limited to black, white and copper (gorgeous metallic acrylic paint)…
Multi-coloured chocolate wrappers A while back someone gave us a box of chocolate truffles, and each one was individually wrapped in very attractive plastic foil wrappers in several colours. They were far too pretty to throw away so I kept them after the chocolates were finished. Unusually, they were a different colour on…
