Made By Humans
Here’s another creative idea that was inspired by a book, though the book version is immensely more detailed and cuter. The inspiring project is the Cut Tissue Paper Greeting Card by Cynthia Shaffer in the book Beautiful Paper Cutting. Hers really is beautiful, with pretty layers of flowers and cardstock cutouts of stems and a […]
We’ve covered our slow art canvases with paint, paper, more paint and fabric, and now it’s time to draw. I had some paint pens I’d purchased for a long-ago project that I decided to use to draw with paint pens on my canvas. Admittedly, my canvas was a little busy for a drawing, and my […]
Yesterday we started a week-long slow art project by painting a canvas. I like that as a first step even if it eventually gets mostly covered up because it takes away the fear of a blank canvas. The next step I did was to add some texture by Mod Podgeing some paper to the canvas. […]
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 my mind, so I decided […]
Some days require a simple, fun challenge, and today was one of those days. One-line drawings, also known as continuous line drawings or contour drawings, are pretty much exactly what they sound like: you draw something all in one line, without ever picking up the pen or pencil as you go. It’s actually a kind […]
I love a good washi tape craft. It’s been a long time since I played with this fun patterned tape, so I thought I would try using some of it to help me make some last-minute Valentines, but this is a great idea for all sorts of card making occasions. My card isn’t quite finished […]
Something about vision boards rubs me the wrong way. I know some people swear by them, saying they made a collage of all the things they wanted and actually ended up getting them. It’s the law of attraction on overdrive, and I don’t completely buy into it. I get that positive energy and focusing on […]