RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - DIGITAL ELEMENTS AND SPECIMEN SLIDES An update on the third folio Looking at the front page, I noticed that the pointing finger at the top of the page wasn't really standing out, so I added some shading around it, and this has improved things. Also, the tag with…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - COMPLETING THE THIRD FOLIO The third folio of this recycled album is now completed, with its steampunk theme. So far I think this is my favourite. The front page Most of the images are from the Graphics Fairy Premium Membership site, but many of the papers are my…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM - BEGINNING THE THIRD FOLIO Now that the first two folios of this recycled album are completed, it is time to begin on the third folio. I have decided on a steampunk theme for this one. Organising my recent dies I got some new dies recently from Ali Express…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM - COMPLETING THE SECOND FOLIO, AND FINISHING MY LABELS Finishing the centrefold This is where I left the centrefold of the second folio of this recycled bag album. I was mulling over what else to add to this page, and remembered that I had seen a video recently where…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM - WORKING ON THE SECOND FOLIO Both the front and back pages of the second folio (made from a single bag) of this recycled paper bag album are now complete. I have begun work on the centrefold but so far only the background is done. As a reminder, here…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAGS ALBUM - COMPLETION OF THE FIRST FOLIO I have now completed the first folio, made from the first bag, of this recycled bag album. This has been a lot of fun. Completion of the centrefold In my previous post about this album, I showed the photos of the centrefold, pretty…
MORE ON EPHEMERA Yesterday I spent some time trawling through my downloaded Graphics Fairy Premium Membership bundles and selected various images and pdf printables in order to create some more ephemera. Working as usual with my desktop publishing software I was able to convert the US paper sized pieces to A4 and to…
FUSSY CTTING DIGITAL PEOPLE, STUDIO ORGANISING AND THE EPHEMERA DILEMMA Fussy cutting Digital People I have long been intrigued by Tim Holtz's Paper Dolls and have toyed with the idea of buying them, but when I signed up to the Graphics Fairy Premium Membership site, I discovered that they had a bundle called…
ORIENTAL-STYLE ALBUM - PUZZLE PAGE Out there in YouTube land, I found a wonderful interactive album on an Alice theme by Rosa Kelly, and she included a puzzle page with flaps that could be lifted to reveal a second picture hidden underneath, a bit like an Advent calendar. I loved this idea and…
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…
