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…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 25 Embellishments In today's studio session, I added embellishments to several of the pages of the journal. There were also a few running repairs that needed to be done, mostly where the previous glue had failed, before I bought the E6000 which works much better…
CLUSTERS AND ALTERED PAPERS I am currently working on producing some embellishments for my "Make a Joyful Noise" junk journal as it approaches completion. Rather than making one-offs, it makes more sense to bulk-create, and generate some ready-made stash for future projects in the process. I recently made some butterfly clusters, following Luise…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 24 Starting the final embellishments Now that the book is bound, all that remains is to add some final embellishments. I began with the fold-out envelopey thing in the second signature. I originally intended filling the two triangular pockets with smaller tags and ephemera, but…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 23 Binding At last I have reached the point when I can bind this book! I have chosen to use a 5-hole pamphlet stitch binding rather than the standard 3-hole, because I wanted to be sure that all the different sized pages would be firmly…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 22 The cover I have now more or less completed both signatures. All that remains are some additional embellishments once the book is bound. The cover needed work before I could proceed with the binding. Cover construction This soft cover is made from a large…
