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Make your own DIY Mod Podge with this easy, two ingredient recipe! What is Mod Podge? Mod Podge is a line of products made by Plaid Crafts. It works as a glue and acrylic sealer that provides different finishes including clear matte, crackle, sparkle and high gloss, among others. (The name is a trademark that’s […]
A travel art kit is a handy thing to have if you keep an art journal or notebook that you doodle and create in. Keeping some basic supplies with you on the go is an antidote to scrolling on your phone and helps you cement your creative practice by allowing you to do it wherever […]
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, and put glue on the […]
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 size of your cover material, […]
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 to rush, and it’s fun […]
This one is for my friend David, a scientist and blogger who was home for a visit over the holidays. On New Year’s Eve he was telling a story about how short he was in high school. He’s not short any more, so he declared himself a “late bloomer.” Which is fine. But I’ve been […]