LITTLE TEA BAG BOOK Have you ever gone into your studio intending to do one thing, and coming out having done something completely different? I have - this afternoon. I am in the middle of a major tidy-up in the chaos pretending to be my studio, and have made good progress. I fully…
DANGLES WITH UV RESIN DISCS AND BEADS Having finished adding UV resin to the small circular floral images, I have now made them into a set of dangles with beads. I have spent two afternoons and an evening working on them. It's a pretty fiddly job and I was glad of my magnifying…
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…
HOW I START A NEW PROJECT USING UPCYCLED RUBBISH A little lesson in recycling! I thought you might be interested in seeing how I begin to plan a project using packaging to create folios and elements for albums. Whenever I'm about to throw something away, I examine it to see if it could…
A TINY FOLIO FROM A BISCUIT PACKET I think this is the first time I have ever produced an album or folio in a single day! I spent all afternoon and most of the evening yesterday, working on this project, and it was a joy to produce. It is very small, measuring about…
STASH BUSTING - TAGS FROM TRASH I'm on a stash busting binge at the moment because I've got far too much stuff in my studio, and it's time I used some of it. Today I used recycled packaging as the base or initial embellishment for several tags. I have some odd sheets of…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 9 - COMPLETING THE PROJECT - THE CLOSURE, DECORATING THE COVER, AND FINISHING TOUCHES On Saturday night I completed this project, working till 2 a.m. to get it done!! I wanted it complete to show to my friend at our lunch out on Sunday, and it took…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 8 - DECORATING THE CHECKATRADE FLIER Change of plan My original plan was to introduce some fun interactive elements into this late add-on to the folio. However, over two afternoons, I spent many hours trying to perfect these elements, without success. I found video instructions online showing…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 7 - DECORATING THE SECOND FOLIO I have now completed the decoration of the inside of the second folio of this project. I am continuing the vintage theme, with red as the focal colour, but in this case with the addition of a little bit of green…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 6 - BACKGROUND INFO FOR SECOND FOLIO DECORATION - ANTIQUE BOOK I'm digressing from the main project in this post, because I want to share with you the source of some of the decorations for the second folio. If I included this in that post it would…
