Blog | Linda Matthews

Journaling using the Moon as your Guide

In next month's Creative Art'n'Soul video workshop, join me as we explore journaling, rituals, and creative journal-making using the mystical moon as our guide. Moon journaling is a slightly different way to create a regular journaling practice. Instead of using the...

A Quick Start Guide to Printing Photos and Images onto Fabric using an Inkjet Printer

I've been using inkjet printers to print my own images and photos onto fabric for over 15 years. Back in the "old days" it was quite the challenge to print images onto fabric and get good results, however thanks to today's technology it's has never been easier to get...

New in the Store: The Creative Vision Planner Journal

The Creative Vision Planner Journal is part planner, part journal. It’s a place where you can dream your big dreams, and than take small consistent steps to bring them to life. It’s where you get to blend your logical left brain with your creative right brain and...

New in the Store: Watercolor Garden Printable Writing Journal

This printable writing journal kit is perfect for capturing your thoughts and ideas. The journal includes both lined and unlined pages, a cover with pockets, and additional note paper. You can find full details about this printable journal here in my online store. PS...

An Art Journal Page: The Path of Dreams

The path of dreams is not always easy, and sometimes we give up on our dreams too soon simply because the going gets tough. Looking at things from a different perspective or considering a different direction can really make a difference, and instead of allowing our...

The Book of Winter Shadows

This year as part of Creative Art'n'Soul Journaling, I'm very excited to be sharing my processes and techniques for making beautiful journals and art books as a way to record and remember the things in our lives that are precious to us. I've started this year with The...

An Art Journal Page: New Beginnings

With this art journal page I decided to work with some of the techniques that I've explored in my art journal during the last several weeks. I really love the process of collage, as well as layering colors and texture to create rich and complex backgrounds, so I used...

I’m Now Teaching on Skillshare – Join Me!

For over 10 years I've been offering online classes and workshops here on my website, so I'm excited to share that I'm now also offering some of my online classes and workshops on Skillshare which is an online classroom hosting thousands of different types of classes...

How to make a simple printable journal

There's nothing like the feeling of using a beautiful journal to write in, and printable journals and notebooks are quick and easy to print and assemble. They are perfect for giving as thoughtful gifts to special friends, or just to keep for yourself. While there's...

An Art Journal Page: What you Believe

For this art journal page I had fun playing around with collage papers, stamps, and paint, and it was interesting to watch the design emerge after building layer upon layer of visual texture. This was a quick and easy way to add background color, and I really enjoyed...

An Art Journal Page: Changes in Nature

With this art journal page, instead of looking within and contemplating the changes that can affect us at a personal level, I looked outward at the changes that occur as a part of nature. Over time, nature's elements of wind, rain and sun, can create changes to even...

New in the Store: Printable DIY Creative Inspiration Card Deck

The Printable DIY Inspiration Card Deck includes 36 cards size 5" x 3.5" plus a printable storage box. Each card has a unique design on it plus space for you to write your favorite quotation, saying, or other inspirational words. You can print the cards and write on...

An Art Journal Page: Honor the Journey

For this art journal page I chose to work with a butterfly because it's a symbol that appears often in my art, and for me represents the creative journey. I can think of nothing more creative than the journey the butterfly takes from caterpillar to chrysalis to...

An Art Journal Page: In the Space Between Thoughts

Silencing the mind doesn't necessarily mean in meditation, it can be any time at all when you step back from what you're doing and pause for a few minutes. When you listen quietly, in-between all those random thoughts you will hear the voice of your creative spirit....

Looking Back … Looking Forward

Welcome to a brand new year! I hope this year is one full of brand new creative opportunities, and brand new memories to make, keep and share. Looking Back One of the things that I've enjoyed most over the last several years is keeping a daily planner style journal...

The “Creative Sewing & Surface 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...

New in the Store: Vintage Roses Printable Journal

The Vintage Roses Printable Journal Kit is designed with vintage roses in soft vintage colors with a touch of grunge. You can use this kit to make your own junk journal, or incorporate the pages into other journals. This kit can be used for altered books, printable...

How One Word Can Change Your Life

Every December 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 my word as a way to stay focused and move my life in the direction that I want it to go. When I feel like...

Looking Forward with a Creative Vision

As we move toward the final month of the year, I'm already preparing myself for an amazing year ahead. December is one of my favorite months and not just because it brings with it the holidays, family get-togethers and good cheer. In my mind I see December as the the...

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...

Designing and Cutting Stencils using the Silhouette Cameo

Not so many years ago, designing and cutting stencils was a time-consuming job. After sketching the design, or designing it in a software program and then printing it onto paper, you then had to transfer the design to a piece of stencil plastic and cut it out by hand...