TISSUE BOX FOLIOS PART 3 - COMPLETION OF VINTAGE GRUNGE FOLIO I have now completed the Vintage Grunge Folio and am very pleased with how this turned out. It has more elements to it than the Floral one and is pretty grungey. During the making of it, I incorporated a few ideas that…
TISSUE BOX FOLIOS PART 2 - COMPLETION OF FLORAL FOLIO Continuing to follow the "Chasing Paper" YouTube video, I steamed ahead, working solely on the floral folio, which I completed in a couple of sessions in the studio. I didn't photograph every stage but once it was completed, I photographed the whole project…
EXPERIMENTS WITH UV RESIN AND SOME TINY CHARMS I had another session in the studio today, experimenting further with my new UV resin kit. Tiny charms I got out my "Rings, Shapes etc." box and had a rummage. This small box contains all kinds of rings - curtain rings, split rings, openable rings...…
EMBELLISHED SKETCHBOOK To go with the Box of Delights that I made for my friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum, I made a small sketchbook. I have a few sheets left from an A3 pad of Daler Rowney hot-pressed watercolour paper. This is pretty heavy-weight and I've been using it for my detailed…
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER - MAKING USE OF PACKAGING I recently searched online for some black striped washi tape which I have seen several people using, and which seems quite hard to find. Eventually I came across an online shop called Curiouser and Curiouser - the name itself was enough to make me want…
2025 - END OF YEAR REVIEW It's been a relatively quiet year, all told. Not a great deal to report on our normal activities. Most of my activity this year has been art-related. Studio changes I got some great new shelving units for the studio and reorganised things to make life a lot…
OVAL WINDOW POCKET WITH PULL-OUT TAG This is the album element I made this afternoon from some Easter egg packaging. This interesting piece has been in my stash for ages and I wanted to do something which would feature both windows - the oval one and the small round one. Folding and trimming…
ALBUM ELEMENTS FROM CHRISTMAS TRASH I'm slipping. I'm definitely slipping. I actually threw something in the bin before I looked at it to see if I could make art out of it! It was the cardboard wrapper which had been round the Christmas pudding I'd bought. On examination I decided it definitely had…
POCKETS AND PAPERCLIPS Continuing my plan to mass-make various elements for future album projects. Rescuing materials from the recycle bin I have a large box of all kinds of intriguing rubbish - cardboard packaging, greetings cards (often with detachable or interactive elements), window envelopes and so on. Having just made a load of…
CLUSTERS AND ALTERED PAPERS I am currently working on producing some embellishments for my "Make a Joyful Noise" junk journal as it approaches completion. Rather than making one-offs, it makes more sense to bulk-create, and generate some ready-made stash for future projects in the process. I recently made some butterfly clusters, following Luise…
