FUN WITH DIGITAL IMAGE MANIPULATION, AND ANOTHER UTI Seeing design everywhere! Over the past few years my eyes have become much more attuned to design and pattern everywhere, even in the most unlikely places. I often take photos of curious things, so that I can store them away for future use in projects…
NEW HOME CARD This afternoon I made a New Home card, using one of my recently created teabag collage elements. I had cut out quite a few little houses from New Home cards we had received, and I chose one of these teabags for the focal image of my card. Here are the…
TEABAG EMBELLISHMENTS AND KITTY CONTORTIONISTS Teabag embellishments A few days ago I had my first session in the studio for 2023. I recently watched a YouTube video showing how to make gorgeous little embellishments from teabags and book pages. I started the project without re-watching the video so ended up doing things in…
Warning: This is a very long post! Click on the links to take you to the relevant posts for more details. Quite an eventful year, one way and another. On the artistic front I have embarked on some new ventures, I've acquired quite a bit of new stash, some lovely books... Several gorgeous…
COLLAGE FRAGMENTS, RECYCLED PAPERS, AND A QUIETLY PERFECT CHRISTMAS DAY A few days prior to Christmas and a couple of days subsequently, I have found time to be in the studio. Much of the time was spent organising things and trying to tidy up a bit (an ongoing struggle!) but I have did…
CELEBRATING THE IMPERFECT In a previous post, I described how one of the embellished teabags for my art journal page hadn’t worked out right, and before I ditched it, I looked at the back and realised that I could use it after all, where the ink had soaked through. I had a lovely…
Fun with teabags I do love teabag art! Yesterday I began a new page in my beautiful Organic Journal, by decorating a dozen teabags to stick down in a grid pattern as a kind of teabag design sampler. I kept the colour palette limited to black, white and copper (gorgeous metallic acrylic paint)…
Teabag Mini-Album Number Two After setting this aside for a period while I was busy with other things, I was keen to get back to it and complete it. Please refer to this post for details of recent progress. What I intend to do in this current post is to show the photos…
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…
I had another session in the studio this afternoon and completed two more page spreads for the second teabag mini-album. Pages 6 and 7. For page 6 I found a nice stained teabag to stick down with soft matte gel medium, as a background for three more butterflies. These were coloured with a…
