UV RESIN USING NAIL ART MATERIALS AND JUNK MAIL IMAGES This was supposed to be an entire session dedicated to making inroads into my UFOs (UnFinished Objects) but as usual I ended up doing something else! The second half of the session did go according to plan though, and there will be details…
ALL MY GOLDS - AN UPDATE In my previous post on this subject, I thought I'd remembered all the golds I have in the studio, but there were several that I forgot. In this post I hope to remedy the situation, and this time I hope I haven't forgotten any! This is page…
VINTAGE GERMAN BOOKS For some time, I have been looking for old German books with their classic Gothic typeface which is highly decorative. I love using old book pages in my art and wanted to include this, to go with a stamp and stencil in my possession which feature it. Book of Hours…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - SCRAP BUSTING PROJECT After quite a lot of precise, detailed work recently, I felt the need to splurge a bit, and have a session splashing about in the studio and getting inky and making a general mess (needing to mop the floor afterwards!). Tea and coffee-dyeing, inking, stamping, stencilling... all…
ALL MY GOLDS Sorry, Mr. Shakespeare - "All that glisters IS gold" - at least in Shoshi's book! A friend recently asked me about what gold I like to use in my art, and rather than just replying, I thought I'd do a post about it because it might be of interest or…
DARTINGTON TREASURES Just over a week ago, we had another sketching outing at Dartington. I picked up several beautiful little natural treasures and stowed them away in my bag to take home and draw. There is such beauty in these tiny fragments of nature! I love trees We had lunch in the shade…
UV RESIN - SMALL CIRCULAR DIGITALS Shoshi is resinating with a new art form! I've done a bit of UV resin work with a small starter kit, but the lamp proved rather inadequate. I have now bought a new one which is much better. Some time ago I downloaded some digitals from Dragana…
UV RESIN - NEW UV LAMP I have recently taken up UV resin work, in order to make small embellishments for my mixed media projects. I began with an inexpensive starter kit which included a small UV lamp. This proved to be pretty weedy and it took ages to cure anything, so I…
DIY WASHI TAPE - FINALISING THE CANDY STRIPE PROJECT A quick addendum to my previous posts about this DIY washi tape. Cutting the strips After thinking about this further, I managed to cut the strips using my guillotine. With the faulty-printed edge on the right, I lined up the other edge to the…
DIY WASHI TAPE - PAPER, PRINTING, CUTTING AND STORING The washi paper I really shouldn't say "washi paper" because "washi" means paper in Japanese! Anyway, the paper arrived. I was a little disappointed initially because it was not self-adhesive as I'd expected. After further research I discovered that the self-adhesive version is only…
