I have a confession to make: I almost never finish a cup of coffee. I drink some at breakfast, usually make a to-go cup to take when I take the girl to school, drink a little in the car, sometimes have a little while I’m doing chores or other morning …
One thing that is a fun creative challenge is to combine different materials or genres of art or craft into the same project. I know somewhere once I saw a list of a bunch of different crafty mashups, and I’m pretty sure I pinned it, but of course now I …
It seems like just about every project, in whatever genre, leaves leftovers, and I’m always reluctant to get rid of those little leftover bits, even when it would be easy to. For example, I keep a lot of tiny bits of paper left over from other projects even though it’s …
This is another one that is sort of inspired by my library trip, but mostly not. There’s a book in that stack on paper cutting, and the projects in it are amazing. I can’t wait to give it a deeper look. In the meantime, though, I had paper cutting on …
This is a little bit of a cheat day because there’s nothing exciting happening here, just putting our DIY journal together. Unless of course you get inspired and start filling up your book, too, which is great if you do! Take your signatures that you made yesterday, pile them together, …
Yesterday we talked about pulling together supplies to make an art journal — or any other kind of DIY journal you like! — and I mentioned that we’d be putting the pages together in signatures for this project. Each signature is like its own little book, and depending on the …
I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff lately about making your own sketchbooks and art journals, and I thought it would be a great use for some of the embarrassingly massive collection of paper I have. I wanted to spread the process out over several days because we don’t need …
