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Pages from my Book of Days + Tips for Stitching on Leaves
Nature journals are one of my favorite types of journals to make. As an amateur photographer and nature lover, I love to capture the things that I see through the lens of my camera and use those photos in my journals. I also like to incorporate real bits of nature onto the pages of my …
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How One Word Can Change Your Life
Every year for about the last 10 years or so, instead of making new year’s resolutions, I choose a word that will become my guide for the coming year. I use this word as a way to stay focused and move my life in the direction that I want it to go. When I feel …
The Book of Days: a Memory Journal
What are your favorite memories of last year? Or the year before? Most of us tend to keep our memories inside our head or inside our heart, and over time they tend to fade away until something stirs the memory back to the surface. The Book of Days is my latest online class where I …
Explorations in Natural Dyeing using Fruit and Vegetables
In this year’s series of Unraveling the Mystery Online Workshops, I’m including with each session a workshop on natural dyeing which is a simple and easy method of making hand-dyed fabrics and fibers that we can use in our stitched journals. In the last workshop, I included the process for natural dyeing with fruit teabags …
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A Quick Handmade Card Tutorial: Sentiment Cards
Handmade Sentiment Cards are perfect to make for yourself, or to give as gifts that will become special keepsakes to be treasured and enjoyed for years to come. These types of cards can be personalized for any occasion using inspiring images, words and quotations all woven together with stitched fabric and paper collages. In this …
The “Creative Sewing & Design” Gift Guide
There’s no getting around the fact that gift-giving season is almost upon us! I don’t know about you, but since I spend so much of my time sewing, dyeing and working with surface design, I always love getting gifts that are creative and sewing or surface-design related. And I particularly love it if they’re also …
DIY Printable Gratitude Journal
Keeping a gratitude journal is not only a great way to remind yourself of all the wonderful things in your life, it can also transform your life in amazing ways. According to Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, leading researchers into Gratitude, their research shows benefits such as greater connection to others, increased personal joy, better …
Design a New Story for the Coming Year
This month begins another fun year of Creative Art’n’Soul Journaling video workshops with a special theme – Unraveling the Mystery. During this series of workshops we’ll attempt to unravel the mystery of our personal stories and translate them onto the pages of our stitched mixed media journals. This is one of my favorite methods of …
Explorations in Natural Dyeing using Herbal Tea Bags
With a new year of Creative Art’n’Soul Journaling about to commence on 1st November, this coming year I plan to include additional technique-based art processes for making and painting journal pages, and assembling and embellishing our journals. Guided by the philosophy of wabi sabi, which is a Japanese aesthetic of finding beauty in that which …
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Free Beginner Tutorial – How to Make a Printable Junk Journal
I love to use printable pages and journal kits to make my journals because they’re so easy and creative to use. Printable journal kits usually have a theme and color story, as well as beautiful imagery, which gives a cohesive look to your journals. Plus, you can sew on the pages just like fabric. You …
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New on Skillshare: Vintage Memories PhotoArt Tutorial
In this video tutorial, discover how to use whitespace and the Rule of Thirds to create interesting PhotoArt layouts; create complex backgrounds by layering textures and colors, and add a vintage-style color and feel to your PhotoArt. You can find details here.
New! The Moondance Printable Mini Junk Journal
My new series of printable mini journals have been such a huge success, I’ve just added a new design – the MoonDance Printable Mini Junk Journal. This mini junk journal kit features lovely mystical night-time imagery in beautiful nightshade colors of purple, and includes 10 printable pages including two covers, 10 page sets, a storage …
