DIY WASHI TAPE - FINALISING THE CANDY STRIPE PROJECT A quick addendum to my previous posts about this DIY washi tape. Cutting the strips After thinking about this further, I managed to cut the strips using my guillotine. With the faulty-printed edge on the right, I lined up the other edge to the…
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…
PACKAGING PAPER CLUSTERS WITH GOLD HEAT EMBOSSING I am indebted to Luise Heinzl for her layered moths on heat embossed coffee-stains tutorial for this project. I have adapted it slightly for my own use. She used a cup dipped in coffee to make her circular marks for the base layer of her clusters,…
INVASION OF THE KILLER COURGETTES! Recently, our lovely next-door-neighbour gave us one of her weird courgettes. She grows a lot of vegetables and is always giving us lovely fresh produce, amongst which are various varieties of courgette. Her grandchildren always fall about laughing when they see them, and think a lot of them…
FUSSY CUTTING IMAGES FROM OLD BOOKS Before anyone gets aerated about destroying books, I would only usually do this with books that were damaged or destined for landfill. However, there are a lot of second-hand books on Ebay, full of beautiful images, and I don't really have any qualms about cutting these up…
FROTTAGE - A NEW WAY TO USE MY TEXTURE MAKERS Today I discovered a whole new way to use my texture makers - Frottage! Max Ernst I was looking at the work of Ernst Haeckel because of another project I am involved in at present, and in my YouTube feed, the work of…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 2 I have made some progress on this new project. This is the sort of project that doesn't have a definite plan. As I see different materials, I am getting ideas of how to use them, and the project will evolve as I work on…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 1 My first true junk journal! I really don't like the term "junk journal" but I'm sticking with it for this project because everybody recognises what a junk journal is. I would much rather call it an album made from recycled materials but it doesn't…
DRAW AWESOME ALBUM PART 7 - COMPLETING THE COVER EMBELLISHMENT Another session of complete fun in the studio, as I completed the embellishment of the front cover of my book. Working on the title panel The printed title needed a nice frame to set it off from the background of the cover. Punched…
DRAW AWESOME ALBUM PART 6 - BEGINNING THE COVER EMBELLISHMENT Today I had the most fun in my studio that you could imagine. This is Shoshi in her element... After the main construction of the book, this is where the real fun begins! The spine If I had thought about it in advance,…
