Just a few stragglers from yesterday's session in the studio. I decided I wanted to make some stencils to go with the Oriental script masks. I also made another scallops one, which ended up as a mask rather than a stencil - when I cut it, the whole of the middle fell out!…
Shoshi's brainstorm When I was doing the work for the last blog post on the subject of my stencils, I think I was having some sort of brainstorm! Later, I couldn't believe how stupid I'd been - somehow I was unable to wrap my head around the whole stencil/mask business, and added bridges…
I have not blogged for a while because I have been extremely busy designing stencils and masks for my new gel press. This has been very time-consuming as Inkscape, the powerful free vector drawing program, is a continuous learning curve for me and I have encountered various problems along the way which took…
I have had such a lovely day on Saturday, full of creativity, receiving gifts, and ending with a really great phone conversation with a friend in the evening. My birthday present arrived from Ebay - my hubby is giving me a lovely boxed set of hardback books - the complete Chronicles of Narnia…
Why spoil a perfectly good ruler? A couple of weeks ago I found a spare plastic 12-inch ruler and knew I would put it to good use, having seen a really good YouTube video recently. This person had taken her ruler out into the garden and deliberately damaged the edge of it against…
Completing the completion! When I did my previous post, I reported that this storage unit was complete - until I decided to order a couple more boxes of the trays and really complete the job! (This photo is of the original sets I bought.) There are six trays in each box, with three…
Ink Storage Unit Today I completed the construction of my revolving ink storage unit. This latter part of this project, making the storage for my spray inks, was much more troublesome than I had hoped, and as a result it took much longer than I'd hoped, too. It isn't quite as neat and…
Storage for my spray inks It's been a good few days since I posted. I have been working hard on my ink pad/spray storage unit. This job has proved to be a lot more protracted than I had hoped, but I am on the home stretch now. From my previous post, you will…
A false start Following on from a previous blog post where I described my original plan for storing my spray inks, I have now had a major rethink about this. I bought a revolving spice rack from Amazon, thinking I could adapt it to hold my spray ink bottles, but the holes for…
Spray Stains Storage Today the spice rack I ordered from Amazon arrived, to store my Distress Spray Stains in. Unboxing: It is quite substantial, and very well built. The glass spice jars have a plastic sprinkler top inside, under the metal lids (which have a blue protective film on them). It turns very…
