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…
TEA, INK, RUST AND PAINT After tea-dyeing some fabric, I had a lot of the tea left over, so I decided to dye some more paper. I've got a box full of old printer paper pieces which I originally intended to shred, as they are old bank statements and other sensitive information. Then…
TEA-DYEING FABRIC After our recent shopping trip to Newton Abbot, when I raided the charity shops and haberdashery shop for fabrics and trims etc. for my art work, I have now done a bit of tea dyeing. I wasn't sure how well some of the fabrics would take the tea stain, especially the…
GIFT WRAP TAGS I wrapped a couple of gifts today, using some gift wrap paper from W.H. Smith's which has gold accents - I originally bought the roll of paper simply for art purposes but since these were gifts for special people I thought I'd use some of it on them! I spent…
FABRIC HAUL FROM SHOPPING TRIP Last week we had a shopping trip in Newton Abbot and my hubby persuaded me to go to the haberdashery shop. I have resisted in the past because I knew what would happen! The shop is stacked to the ceiling with shelves with rolls of fabric and trimmings,…
MASTERBOARD MAYHEM This afternoon I made two masterboards. In case you don't know what a masterboard is, it is a large sheet of paper or card with an overall pattern or decoration on it, in whatever medium you choose. Once it is complete, you can cut it up and make into a number…
FAUX VINTAGE COPPER EFFECT WITH ACRYLICS The other day I watched a video on YouTube where someone made an amazing journal cover with mixed media, which looked like old copper. I had to try this! She used some pretty unusual materials which I didn't have - chemicals which seemed a bit dangerous (she…
