A BLAST FROM MY SEWING PAST Back in 1974, when I celebrated my 21st birthday, my parents gave me a sewing machine. It was a Pfaff 1197, and it was listed as the best sewing machine for the year in the Which report. I had it for forty years, during which time it…
A NEW PROJECT - BONNIE BAGGIES! - AND A NEW LAMP Preparation for an exciting new project Just recently a new channel came up in my YouTube feed, from a wonderful creative lady in the USA who upcycles old clothing and jewellery into beautiful boho-style clothes and bags. This really got my creative…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - THE FIFTH FOLIO The fifth folio of this recycled album has a botanical theme. Choosing papers A few days ago, I die-cut a lot of leaves and coloured them with Distress Spray Stains, and made different backgrounds, negative spaces and stencilled pieces in the process. These two backgrounds…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - LEAVES FOR THE FINAL TWO FOLIOS The final two folios of this album will be based on botanicals and trees. I had pretty much run out of ready-to-use leaves so it was high time I made some more. I do always have a number of uncoloured die cuts…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM - BEGINNING THE THIRD FOLIO Now that the first two folios of this recycled album are completed, it is time to begin on the third folio. I have decided on a steampunk theme for this one. Organising my recent dies I got some new dies recently from Ali Express…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM - COMPLETING THE SECOND FOLIO, AND FINISHING MY LABELS Finishing the centrefold This is where I left the centrefold of the second folio of this recycled bag album. I was mulling over what else to add to this page, and remembered that I had seen a video recently where…
SCRAP BUSTING - COFFEE-DYE STAMPED CARD STRIPS, AND A CONJOINED TWIN STRAWBERRY While I decide how to embellish the centrefold of the current folio of my recycled paper-glassine bag album, I thought I'd do a mini-project with a dual aim - to reduce my scrap stash and to create some useful elements. The…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM - WORKING ON THE SECOND FOLIO Both the front and back pages of the second folio (made from a single bag) of this recycled paper bag album are now complete. I have begun work on the centrefold but so far only the background is done. As a reminder, here…
FUSSY CTTING DIGITAL PEOPLE, STUDIO ORGANISING AND THE EPHEMERA DILEMMA Fussy cutting Digital People I have long been intrigued by Tim Holtz's Paper Dolls and have toyed with the idea of buying them, but when I signed up to the Graphics Fairy Premium Membership site, I discovered that they had a bundle called…
USING WEEDED PAPER FROM CUTTING MACHINE AS A STENCIL After I had cut out the pieces to make several iris shutter mechanisms, I looked at the weeded sheets when I'd removed them from the cutting mat, and thought that they might make interesting stencils. I took a piece of Amazon packaging paper and…
