SCRAP BUSTING - MIXED MEDIA FRAGMENTS I have made further inroads into my overflowing scraps box, grabbing a handful of white card strips which had been trimmed off larger sheets. Tea and rust I laid them out on the table close together and tea dyed them from a spray bottle, and once they…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - TEXT COLLAGE PAGES Today I added five more pages to my masterboard book, which is a scrap-busting project that I started last month. It is an A4 spiral bound sketchbook which I am using to create a number of masterboard pages ready to be cut up and used in projects.…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - BOOK PAGE COLLAGE I have just added another page to the masterboard book which I recently started. It is a book page collage. This was relatively quick to do, because I had a pile of book pages after trimming away the white borders, ready for making tags and other projects.…
TAGS FROM CAT FOOD BOXES My hubby was throwing some cat food boxes into the recycling bin the other day and I intervened on their behalf, offering them a new lease of life. These boxes contain several small tins of the food we get on subscription online. The boxes have some nice plain…
TAG TOPPERS I am currently making a collection of tags from recycled packaging, and as part of the process, I am making tag toppers. This project is also a stand-alone one, because I'm making a large number of these toppers which will go in my stash, ready to be used when required. The…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - SCRAP BUSTING PROJECT After quite a lot of precise, detailed work recently, I felt the need to splurge a bit, and have a session splashing about in the studio and getting inky and making a general mess (needing to mop the floor afterwards!). Tea and coffee-dyeing, inking, stamping, stencilling... all…
A TINY FOLIO FROM A BISCUIT PACKET I think this is the first time I have ever produced an album or folio in a single day! I spent all afternoon and most of the evening yesterday, working on this project, and it was a joy to produce. It is very small, measuring about…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 8 - DECORATING THE CHECKATRADE FLIER Change of plan My original plan was to introduce some fun interactive elements into this late add-on to the folio. However, over two afternoons, I spent many hours trying to perfect these elements, without success. I found video instructions online showing…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 7 - DECORATING THE SECOND FOLIO I have now completed the decoration of the inside of the second folio of this project. I am continuing the vintage theme, with red as the focal colour, but in this case with the addition of a little bit of green…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 5 - DECORATING THE SECOND FOLIO I have now begun work on decorating the second folio in this project. Again, as you open it, you see the inside of the first panel and the outside of the third. At this stage, I have completed the inside of…
