I altered this sturdy cardboard box - which is about 5 inches by 5 inches - to turn it from a plain brown box into something slightly more a...

Many years ago I created a 'faux vellum' by adding baby oil to copy paper. the results were not inspiring enough for me to try it a...

Well, it's been a long time since I posted to this blog. A lot has changed in the last few months, and the desire to create has been ch...

I've been a bit quiet of late - a week in Germany visiting family and the ongoing loss of my muse following the collapse of my marriage ...

This was quite a quick project using fabric paper. I used remnants from 3 sheets of fabric paper I'd made a while ago - deep pink, purpl...

I have been on a couple of Angie Hughes courses at Ledbury Artspace recently. The first course was all about working with velvet, transfe...

Altered Element sent me some Paverpol fabric stiffener, some Paverplast , and some 'fabric' for use with Paverpol which is made fro...

Some of you may know that I was diagnosed with breast cancer 5 years ago. Next week will be the five year anniversary of my mastectomy. I ca...

Oh my goodness. This month's Altered Element Design Team pack is Paverpol. I have a sheet of Paverpol Reliefdecoration, to 'decorate...

I am taking part in a chunky book where the pages are shaped like gothic arches. The pages need to be grungy with a touch of metal. I'...

My last Altered Element DT pack included some Grungeboard . I've never used this stuff and was not quite sure how to work with it. I u...

I absolutely love these Patera metal jewellery findings from Nunn Designs. They come in a range of shapes in gold, silver and copper, and b...

I thought I'd try another way of working with Tyvek, so I gave one side of this piece a thin layer of watered down fluid acrylics in Nic...

Tyvek is funny stuff - it is used in the building industry and in textile art. I remember the Guardian printing a newspaper supplement on i...

I once received a beautiful Stampboard triptych from Trizzy - this is my version, which is very different! I used watered down lettuce and...

A couple of weeks ago, two friends of mine pointed me in the direction of a brand new Merrylock Embellishing machine on EBay. I was very f...

Shrink Plastic. Versatile stuff which comes in black, white, translucent and clear. Reputation for being tricky to use. But is it? If you w...

Read more about how you can get 'World Cup discount' on all Altered Elements orders of wonderful goodies during England games: http:...

This month's Altered Element DT pack is all about surfaces. It contained sheets of metal, tyvek and translucent shrink plastic, mini can...

My purple pack of pure pleasure arrived from the Altered Element last week - each item is beautifully wrapped in brown paper bags and purple...