Sometimes I need to reassure myself….. The page layouts are coming along rather nicely. The yellow showing through this round design is actually the next page, as the design outlines an aperture through the pages. Some text, a bit of stitching and a wee tad more embellishment and this spread is done. There are a…
Category: work
Printing on organza
The new printer is a hit. It’s an Epson C-88 with Durabright inks and I have to say, I’m very pleased. I’ve tried it out on paper and it does a great job. The colours are good, it handles a variety of paper thicknesses well and I have only has one jam and that was…
Review: The Decorated Page by Gwen Diehn
I picked this book up the other day while looking for inspiration for page layouts and the possibilities of books that integrate imagery and text. I wasn’t actually looking for a book about scrapbooking so much as a book about artists who use journals as something a little more communicative and meaningful than a daily…
A trip to the bookstore
We don’t indulge our love of good books nearly as much as we’d like, largely because book-buying has gotten to be a fairly pricey endeavour. Two people buying books is one thing. Add a kid with literary input to the mix and you increase the cost of such a trip more than you should. But…
Something to judge the book by
This weekend I’ve made some good progress with the book. I also just ran out of glue, and so will be forced (possibly fortuitously) to explore some different techniques for a bit. I got the covers done before the Jones Tones well went dry, though. Here are the black foam sheets with the dried designs…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 