Creative Artn’n’Soul Journaling
Ancient Earth Journal + Rust Dyeing Online Workshop
Welcome to Ancient Earth – the latest Unraveling the Mystery Video Workshop. In this online class you’ll learn how to create a handmade journal with blank embellished pages that look worn and aged and a little rusted around the edges. Also included in the workshop is a comprehensive course on rust dyeing where you can …
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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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Ancient Earth Mini-Journals – a quick tutorial
I finally completed one of my Ancient Earth Mini-Journals that I started about a week ago. Because the pages are small, it went together very quickly. I named this particular journal “Meditations from the Heart” and attached some small stitched collages to the pages. I hadn’t intended to write a tutorial, but these small journals …
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 …
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! 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 …
Soul Whispers – a Transformative Visual Journal
I absolutely love making visual art journals that tell a story. Rather than writing in a journal as most people do, the story emerges on the pages of the journal in a very personal and artistic way using a combination of images, words and phrases, paper, fabric and stitch. Soul Whispers which is the latest …
