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…
MORE OLD BOOKS I have recently acquired a couple more vintage books to use in my mixed media and album projects. Cassell's Concise Cyclopaedia I got this book on Ebay. As you can see, there is some damage to the spine. It dates from 1898 and contains a wealth of information and plenty…
VILLAGE FETE 2026 On Saturday we returned to the village where we used to live, to attend the annual village fete which always takes place on the last Saturday in June. After the extreme heat of the previous days, the morning began slightly overcast and there was a tiny bit of rain, after…
STASH BUSTING - TAGS FROM TRASH I'm on a stash busting binge at the moment because I've got far too much stuff in my studio, and it's time I used some of it. Today I used recycled packaging as the base or initial embellishment for several tags. I have some odd sheets of…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 9 - COMPLETING THE PROJECT - THE CLOSURE, DECORATING THE COVER, AND FINISHING TOUCHES On Saturday night I completed this project, working till 2 a.m. to get it done!! I wanted it complete to show to my friend at our lunch out on Sunday, and it took…
DOUBLE TRI-FOLD JUNK MAIL FOLIO PART 8 - DECORATING THE CHECKATRADE FLIER Change of plan My original plan was to introduce some fun interactive elements into this late add-on to the folio. However, over two afternoons, I spent many hours trying to perfect these elements, without success. I found video instructions online showing…
