Who doesn’t love a butterfly? They are such beautiful creatures and are so helpful as pollinators. Not to mention how colourful they are! This inspired…
Tag: mixed media art
When inspiration strikes
I was in the car with the kids on a long drive the other month, and we were chatting about random things, when we saw…
Stick Binding Tutorial
I do love including nature in a lot of my work, and one of the simplest ways to do this is by adding a stick…
Five Ways to use Tea Bags in your Junk Journals
Tea bags. Many of us like to collect them, and then we hoard them for ages, waiting to use them in our junk journals. They…
Making a Folio from Paper Scraps | Tutorial
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…
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,…
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…
Making Paste Papers
Paste papers are a traditional type of paper decorating, used mostly to make end papers. But they are pretty amazing works of art on their…
Abstract Accordion Artist Book | Bright and Colorful
A while back I took a free online retreat called Collage Fodder School and one of the projects was to make painted papers using a…