ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM PART 1 BREAKING NEWS - UFO crash lands in Shoshi's Studio! No alien bodies reported found Great news. One of my longstanding UFOs (UnFinished Objects) is now complete! I began this project in the spring of 2023, with one or two bursts of enthusiasm to work on it further in…
UV RESIN USING NAIL ART MATERIALS AND JUNK MAIL IMAGES This was supposed to be an entire session dedicated to making inroads into my UFOs (UnFinished Objects) but as usual I ended up doing something else! The second half of the session did go according to plan though, and there will be details…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - BOOK PAGE COLLAGE I have just added another page to the masterboard book which I recently started. It is a book page collage. This was relatively quick to do, because I had a pile of book pages after trimming away the white borders, ready for making tags and other projects.…
TAGS FROM CAT FOOD BOXES My hubby was throwing some cat food boxes into the recycling bin the other day and I intervened on their behalf, offering them a new lease of life. These boxes contain several small tins of the food we get on subscription online. The boxes have some nice plain…
TAG TOPPERS I am currently making a collection of tags from recycled packaging, and as part of the process, I am making tag toppers. This project is also a stand-alone one, because I'm making a large number of these toppers which will go in my stash, ready to be used when required. The…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - SCRAP BUSTING PROJECT After quite a lot of precise, detailed work recently, I felt the need to splurge a bit, and have a session splashing about in the studio and getting inky and making a general mess (needing to mop the floor afterwards!). Tea and coffee-dyeing, inking, stamping, stencilling... all…
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…
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…
