Do you have a lot of junk mail and paper scraps laying around your creative space? If you are like me, and don’t have the…
Author: live_wild
Making Book Cloth at Home
Making your own books is so much fun, but one of the things we need to do is make covers for them. In junk journalling,…
Slow Growth is Good Growth
Welcome back to the daily collective podcast! I know it has been a while, but life is what it is, and it has been quite…
Free Printable | Art is the Act of Making Something Beautiful from Nothing
I’ve decided to create a free printable for you to download and print to put up in your creative space. I think we all need…
Making Wheat Paste for Book Binding
Wheatpaste or wheat starch paste has been used since antiquity as a natural adhesive. It is cheap, quick and easy to make, and lasts for…
Sloth Junk Journal Flip Through |Commission
I was commissioned to make a junk journal for a lovely young lady with a passion for sloths. I will say this was an exciting…
Make Glue from Pasta Water!
Oh yes, you heard me right – you can make glue from pasta water! So if you are in a bind, make a plate of…
Wabi Sabi | Artist Book Flip Through
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ‘wabi sabi‘ means: Relating to or designating a Japanese aesthetic or world view characterized by finding beauty in imperfection,…
Combining Macrame and Book Binding
Being the person I am, my creativity ebbs and flows, sometimes pulling me in one direction, sometimes in the other. Recently, the pull brought me…
Make a Book Cover from a Plastic Bag
Yep, you read that right! You can make a book cover from a plastic bag! Sometimes some shops still give out real plastic bags, and…