RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - THE SIXTH AND FINAL FOLIO Very exciting to have reached the final folio of this recycled album. The theme of this one is trees, following on nicely from the previous one which is botanical. The front page I used a fairly large tree stamp for the focal image.…
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…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM - IRIS SHUTTER PAGE It's been over a month since I did any work on this project. I have been mulling over doing an iris shutter interactive element and kept putting it off as it involved getting myself organised, tidying the studio and making room for my downstairs laptop so…
IRIS SHUTTERS AND VOLVELLES I love 3-D paper projects, pop-ups and mechanicals. I finally got around to cutting some pieces to make iris shutters for my Oriental-style album, and making a cutting file for a volvelle. Iris Shutters Some time ago I came across a cutting die to make iris shutters but it…
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…
It's been several days since I've been able to get in my studio and actually create something. We went out for the day on Friday (I will be blogging about that as soon as I've sorted the photos) and yesterday I was too exhausted and headachy to do anything at all. Apart from…
Yesterday I made my first intuitive collage in the Organic Journal. I couldn't think of a title for it so it's just "Intuitive Collage 1." I didn't take any photos at the beginning as I was just sorting through my various papers to decide what to include in this project. Here is the…
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…
