FAUX VINTAGE TAPE Grunge Rules, OK! I am following Crafty by Toni, and Sevenplaza with Margareth from the Netherlands on YouTube, and love their grungey mixed media and mass makes. A lot of people lately have been reproducing the look of old Sellotape which you often find mending the pages of old books…
TISSUE BOX FOLIOS PART 2 - COMPLETION OF FLORAL FOLIO Continuing to follow the "Chasing Paper" YouTube video, I steamed ahead, working solely on the floral folio, which I completed in a couple of sessions in the studio. I didn't photograph every stage but once it was completed, I photographed the whole project…
FAUX WASHI TAPES For a long time I didn't really know what to do with washi tapes, and what I'd seen online of people using them hadn't impressed me much - not that I had looked much beyond their use in decorating planners etc. Once I got into the serious mixed media stuff…
EXPERIMENTS WITH UV RESIN AND SOME TINY CHARMS I had another session in the studio today, experimenting further with my new UV resin kit. Tiny charms I got out my "Rings, Shapes etc." box and had a rummage. This small box contains all kinds of rings - curtain rings, split rings, openable rings...…
WORKING WITH UV RESIN I am following Crafty with Toni, one of my favourite YouTube artists. She recently posted a video about UV resin. I have steered clear of resin until now as I thought it would be too much hassle, mixing the two parts, and expecting to have to buy a lot…
EMBELLISHED SKETCHBOOK To go with the Box of Delights that I made for my friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum, I made a small sketchbook. I have a few sheets left from an A3 pad of Daler Rowney hot-pressed watercolour paper. This is pretty heavy-weight and I've been using it for my detailed…
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER - MAKING USE OF PACKAGING I recently searched online for some black striped washi tape which I have seen several people using, and which seems quite hard to find. Eventually I came across an online shop called Curiouser and Curiouser - the name itself was enough to make me want…
HIDDEN PAPERCLIPS FROM EMBOSSED TOILET PAPER ROLLS - ADDING THE EMBELLISHMENTS I have completed the embossed toilet paper rolls project for now - although I may come back to it and make some tags. For the moment I am setting aside the making of elements for albums and doing something different - I…
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…
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…
