Index Cards are not the best substrate to create on, if you ask me. It’s not good for most wet media and the index card I bought yesterday are super flimsy and thin… But all that aside, I am joining the index-card-a-day challenge, ICAD, to create “something” on one index card each day for the […]
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Make Handmade Postcards and join the Spring Swap
It is really fun to make handmade postcards, don’t you agree? You can paint, collage, do textile art, mixed media, embroider them, sew on paper, draw or doodle. The possibilities are endless. If you haven’t tried yet and don’t want to take my word for it, I suggest you make a few and see for […]
Making a few Extra Postcards
To some of you I know that the thought of making 10 postcards can be overwhelming, but if you give it time its very doable. You start with a background, painting it or finding it (cutting out a pretty paper or magazine images) and then you go from there and let the process “just happen”. […]
Word Poetry Postcards
I got a good start with my postcard this year, totally in the flow while painting my big papers, as you can see in the postcard video I made. When my papers where covered in paint and dry, I added lots of patterned tissue paper, and glitter! When the postcards where cut to size (four […]
The Artful Storybook by Terry Taylor – a book revi
I have a few books that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while now. First out is this fun how to-book called The Artful Storybook: Mixed-Media Artists Create Handmade Tales by artist Terry Taylor. This is a inspiring book about how mixed-media artists (yes, that includes you and me!) can start to make […]
Alphabetica by Lynne Perrella
I’m reading Alphabetica – An A-Z Technique Guide For Collage & Book Artists by Lynne Perrella. I really enjoyed her first book (Artists’ Journals and Sketchbooks), it made me start a visual journal, doing collages wish lead me to the world of ATC and trading them, which lured me in to other mixed media adventures […]