Blog
Art Journaling for the Soul
Today begins the year-long journey of Creative Art’n’Soul Journaling … and I am so excited to get started! Over the years I’ve come to enjoy art journaling, both as a process for creating beautiful stitched art journals, and also as a way to track and record events in my life. Some events are big and …
Vintage Style Stitched Mixed Media Journal: Online Video Workshop
In this online workshop, learn how to make a vintage-style journal with a stitched mixed media cover. I designed this particular journal as a way for beginners to get started with stitched journal covers, and although the cover might look complicated, it’s a simple design and quite easy to assemble. The pages are tea-dyed to …
Vintage Style Stitched Mixed Media Journal: Online Video Workshop Read More »
Join me for a Year of Creative Art’n’Soul Journaling
Let’s play with fabric, thread and paper in a whole new way to make beautiful creative journals that can be used as a place to hold and treasure our personal stories. Journals can be used in lots of different ways. Although I have a lot of different types of journals that I use for different …
Join me for a Year of Creative Art’n’Soul Journaling Read More »
How to Tea-Dye Lace and Thread for a Vintage Look
When making stitched mixed media journals, I love to use lace and thread that have an aged and vintage look. It just seems to complement the other bits and pieces I use to tell my stories. Dyeing lace and thread using tea (or even coffee), is a quick and easy way to create that stained …
How to Tea-Dye Lace and Thread for a Vintage Look Read More »
My Latest Art Journal: Wings
My latest art journal is a contemplative themed journal titled “Wings”. Contemplative journals give us a safe space to explore our feelings and emotions in a creative way. I used wings as the theme for this journal. With wings we can fly to new heights. They give us the ability to soar up and away …
Digital Design for Fabric: Repurpose and Reuse
One of the best things about creating your own PhotoArt, fabric designs and other types of digital imagery, is that the images can be reused in many different ways. With digital files, images can be resized larger or smaller and easily changed and manipulated. This means that you have limitless possibilities for repurposing them and …
Vintage Botanicals Printable Journal Kit
New in the CreativeArt’n’Soul online store The Vintage Botanicals Printable Journal Kit is designed in vintage colors with botanical floral images and torn edges. The neutral color makes it perfect for incorporating into other types of vintage journals. Printable journals kits can be used to make junk journals, or you could incorporate the pages into …
Vintage Botanicals – New Digital Paper Packs
New in the Creative Art’n’Soul store! These Vintage Botanical Digital Paper Packs are perfect if you enjoy working with printable papers for paper crafting such as scrapbooking, journaling, mixed media, altered art, collage, and printable stationery. The Vintage Botanical collection is currently available in two sets of 10 papers size 8.5″ x 11″ in the …
Rambling Rose Printable Planners
If you love to use beautiful planners, you’ll love the new Creative Art’n’Soul “Rambling Rose” printable planner collection which is now available here in my Etsy Store. This planner collection is undated so you can use it over and over again. Individual planner pages which include daily and weekly schedules, monthly calendar, notes and todo …
Injured Prints – what they are and what you can do with them
Have you ever printed an image onto fabric and have it turn out a little less than perfect? It happens to me more often than you’d think. But there’s no need to throw those prints away – there are lots of creative ways to recycle and reuse them. I have several different Epson printers that …
Injured Prints – what they are and what you can do with them Read More »
How to Make a “Creative Ideas” Journal
Over the years one of the things that I’ve learned about being a creative business owner is that if you don’t write things down, they are soon forgotten. This is particularly true when creative ideas arrive in a flash of inspiration because they often arrive at the least convenient times, so I always make sure …
Scrappy Garden Fabric Journal Cover
This week I’m sharing a quick and easy fabric journal cover project. I was inspired to print one of the pages from the Scrappy Garden Printable Journal Kit onto fabric, to make a journal cover for a new journal that I’m making. I love the fun floral designs on the pages of this printable journal, …
