CLEAR PACKAGING TAPE TRANSFERS Following Maremi Small Art on YouTube, today I made some more washi tape substitutes using clear packaging tape. I have got some old catalogues which came as junk mail from a local garden centre and they've got some pretty good pictures in them. I spent some time fussy cutting…
SQUARE TISSUE BOX FOLIO 1 - FLORAL Fortunately I have not had to pray for a cold! We are getting through my order of 12 cube-shaped tissue boxes fast enough for me to start upcycling the boxes. Again I am following Chasing Paper on YouTube for another of her excellent tutorials, and again,…
FUSSY CUTTING DIGITALS I have recently downloaded quite a few digital kits for printing, mostly freebies from very generous artists who often create these to celebrate milestones in YouTube subscriber numbers, or for their birthdays and so on. I have also purchased a few kits. These are always very reasonably priced. Once you've…
SHOPPING HAUL Yesterday we had a shopping trip to Newton Abbot. I don't get out that much and a day like this is a real treat! My hubby took himself off to the museum after dropping me off, and I made a beeline for The Works for starters. I spent far longer in…
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…
FAUX VINTAGE TAPE Grunge Rules, OK! I am following Crafty by Toni, and Sevenplaza with Margareth from the Netherlands on YouTube, and love their grungey mixed media and mass makes. A lot of people lately have been reproducing the look of old Sellotape which you often find mending the pages of old books…
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…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - SECOND GEOMETRIC PATTERN This is pattern B1 from Samira Mian's collection of 6-fold patterns. For further information about this, please see my earlier post. This is the layout for Pattern B1. As before, the basic pattern repeat (on the small piece of tracing paper on the left) looks pretty…
FAUX WASHI TAPES For a long time I didn't really know what to do with washi tapes, and what I'd seen online of people using them hadn't impressed me much - not that I had looked much beyond their use in decorating planners etc. Once I got into the serious mixed media stuff…
MESSING WITH MESH - PLASTIC DECO MESH Shoshi the Mad Scientist has been at work again... Some time ago, I bought a set of four rolls of a kind of plastic mesh which is used for forming Christmas wreaths and other decorative items. (This is Amazon's picture.) The main reason for this was…
