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Completion of the Second Teabag Mini-Album, Our Anniversary and the Kitties’ Fifth Birthday

Teabag Mini-Album Number Two After setting this aside for a period while I was busy with other things, I was keen to get back to it and complete it. Please refer to this post for details of recent progress. What I intend to do in this current post is to show the photos…

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25th May 2022

Books and Albums / Mixed Media Art / Studio Equipment / Teabag Art

Ruining a Perfectly Good Ruler, Fun with Spray Inks, More on my Teabag Mini-Albums

Why spoil a perfectly good ruler? A couple of weeks ago I found a spare plastic 12-inch ruler and knew I would put it to good use, having seen a really good YouTube video recently. This person had taken her ruler out into the garden and deliberately damaged the edge of it against…

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19th May 2022

Drawing and Painting / Paper Art

Some Melting Experiments, Preparing for my New Spray Stains, and my “Dangerous” Blog

Multi-coloured chocolate wrappers A while back someone gave us a box of chocolate truffles, and each one was individually wrapped in very attractive plastic foil wrappers in several colours. They were far too pretty to throw away so I kept them after the chocolates were finished. Unusually, they were a different colour on…

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24th April 2022

Books and Albums / Mixed Media Art / Teabag Art

Teabag Mini-Albums – Continuing to Work on Book 2

I had another session in the studio this afternoon and completed two more page spreads for the second teabag mini-album. Pages 6 and 7. For page 6 I found a nice stained teabag to stick down with soft matte gel medium, as a background for three more butterflies. These were coloured with a…

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7th April 2022

Books and Albums / Colorectal / Drawing and Painting / Health Issues / Mixed Media Art / Studio Equipment / Teabag Art

Teabag Mini-Albums – Improved Photos, New Pens, and a Health Update

Photographing my teabag mini-albums I always edit all my photos, and this usually just involves adjusting the levels, straightening perpendiculars, cloning out distractions, etc. I always check the colour balance as well, as many of my photos are taken in the evening under artificial light, and you do tend to get quite a…

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6th April 2022

Books and Albums / Mixed Media Art / Teabag Art

Teabag Mini-Album #2

Today I resumed work on the second of two small teabag mini-albums. You can see the first one here. I had already made the backgrounds for album #2, and I have also made the cover, which I will share once I've finished the rest of the book. As before, I had great difficulty…

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3rd April 2022

Drawing and Painting / Paper Art / Studio Equipment / Teabag Art

Wonderful Rice Papers and Some More Teabag Stain Doodles

Rice Paper Most of the papers I ordered have now arrived, and I am just waiting for a few stragglers. I ordered mostly rice paper, with some napkins thrown in for good measure - I found a shop online where you can buy single napkins for creative purposes, rather than having to buy…

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31st March 2022

Drawing and Painting / Paper Art / Studio Equipment / Teabag Art

At Last! An Inkpad Storage Solution that Works! – and More Teabag Stain Doodles

Inkpad Storage For many years, I have been looking for a solution to the inkpad storage problem. Many people have beautiful wooden shelf units with them all on display on the wall, but I have not got room for that, and those units are very exensive, and not expandable. Several years ago I…

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30th March 2022

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Pink Teabags, Grey Stains and the Completion of Teabag Mini-Album #1

The Results of my fruit "tea" experiments All the papers and teabags from the fruit "tea" experiment are now dry. They didn't take as long as I thought they would. The ones at the bottom of the pile in the sink were stuck on and some of them ripped when I got them…

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27th March 2022

Drawing and Painting / Mixed Media Art / Teabag Art

2nd Post – Flower Pressing and More Work on Teabag Mini-Album

Well, I have been busy. I can't remember the last time I did two posts in one day! Pressed into service Thinking about my larger teabag mini-albums, I thought it would be fun to add some pressed flowers and leaves. Several years ago I bought a second-hand flower press on Ebay, not with…

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24th March 2022