Creating a Daily Artistic Practice
This year I'm participating in the 100 Day Project which is an annual event that encourages you to make or do something creative for 100 days straight. You can find all the information about this project here on their website and you can see photos of my project here....
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...
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...
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...
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...
DIY Tutorial: PhotoArt Zipper Pouch
I just love zippered pouches for so many reasons. They're quick and easy to make and can be made in any size and used for storing and organizing things large and small. Because they're so versatile and useful, zipper pouches are the perfect sewing project to make for...
Hand embroidery thread – how to blend custom thread colors
If you do a lot (or even a little) hand embroidery, over time you can accumulate quite a collection of embroidery floss and yarn. But doesn't it always seem that you simply never have the right color hand embroidery thread to finish off a sewing project? The color...
Beautiful Hand-Dyed Fabrics in the Colors of Nature
The next best thing to teaching others how to hand-dye fabrics and fibers, is seeing the results of their efforts, and the fabric collections which are being produced during the current session of my Fragments of Nature Workshop are simply beyond beautiful. It's easy...
Hand-Dyeing the Colors of Nature
It's been quite a busy month so far with a focus on teaching my new workshop - Fragments of Nature - both online and in a live workshop. We are about half-way through the online class, and have so far learned how to mix dyes to recreate nature colors. It all begins...
How to Make a Quick and Easy Traveler’s Notebook Cover
Several years ago I began using a traveler's notebook. When I first bought it, I wasn't sure if I'd like it or not, but over time I've grown to love it! I particularly love the idea of being able to use several different styles of notebooks such as a writing notebook,...
Stick Totem: A Stitched Mixed Media Collage Tutorial + Free Printable
This year my goal is to make a small stitched mixed media collage each day with the intention of making monthly mixed media journals. To make these page quick and easy to create, I'm using pages from my new series of printable journals as backing pages. These pages...
Hand-Dyed Fabrics with Amazing Color and Visual Texture
It's always a thrill for me to see the work that my students produce during my online classes and workshops, and I particularly love to see the beautiful fabrics and fibers that they create during my hand-dyeing workshops. After 30 years of hand-dyeing I never get...
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