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…
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 1 Following along with the tutorial on the YouTube channel Chasing Paper, I am making two folios from empty tissue boxes. I am made them as a production line, working on them together for each stage. The owner of the channel has done two videos on this subject. The…
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…
A BOX OF DELIGHTS Recently I decided to make a gift for my artist friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum, who continually inspires me with her fabulous art, her encouragement and her wonderful sense of humour and fun. I had several tiny gifts I wanted to send her, which were trivial and amusing…
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER - MAKING USE OF PACKAGING I recently searched online for some black striped washi tape which I have seen several people using, and which seems quite hard to find. Eventually I came across an online shop called Curiouser and Curiouser - the name itself was enough to make me want…
HIDDEN PAPERCLIPS FROM EMBOSSED TOILET PAPER ROLLS - ADDING THE EMBELLISHMENTS I have completed the embossed toilet paper rolls project for now - although I may come back to it and make some tags. For the moment I am setting aside the making of elements for albums and doing something different - I…
POUCHES FROM EMBOSSED TOILET PAPER ROLLS - ADDING THE EMBELLISHMENTS This is a follow-up to my earlier post on how to make little pouches and hidden paperclips from toilet paper rolls. Here are the pouches after I had finished constructing them. Time to have some fun with embellishments! These are the fronts of…
POUCHES AND PAPERCLIPS FROM TOILET PAPER ROLLS Continuing with my album elements project, I have made a collection of items from the cores of toilet paper rolls. I recently came across a YouTube video and learnt how to emboss the toilet rolls and make tiny pouches out of them. As I folded and…
OVAL WINDOW POCKET WITH PULL-OUT TAGS - CORRECTED AND COMPLETED When I first worked on this element, I intended to make a pull-out tag for both the larger oval window and the smaller round one, but forgot the latter. I thought it would be too late to do anything about it as I…
