Tea Cup Art-Collaboration Project

  Collaboration Fun! Over in the LineWeaving community forums we have about 11 artists who signed up for our tea cup shaped book collaboration and everyone has sent in their cups now.  I’m still waiting for a few of the packages to arrive and then my work...

Gelli Plate Play Time

  Last year I started playing with Gelli Plate prints.  I had fun experimenting with various color schemes and different paint products.  After going at it for several days and letting all my prints dry, I set them aside for several weeks wondering all the while,...

You Are My Sunshine – Altered Book Spread

  Here’s the video showing you the creative process for my little book spread called: You are my Sunshine.  I did the background wash about a month ago when I was doing a little tutorial for the folks inside our LineWeaving community forums, and then I set...

Quiet Places – Altered Book Spread

Recently I shared with my friends in the LineWeaving community one of the pages from an altered book I’ve had in the works forever. After a couple questions about how to do acrylic wash backgrounds I did up a little series of videos showing several super easy...

ATC Sleeves – Quick Tutorial

In my last posting I mentioned these little paper sleeves or envelopes (without a flap) that I sometimes make to present my Artist Trading Cards in. Here’s a super quick how-to for making them: Steps to Make ATC sleeves: Cut a piece of decorative paper to size:...

Mixed Media with Repeat Pattern Doodles

  I’ve been back in the studio for a wee bit here lately and managed to pull together several pages in art-journals and altered books.  It’s been fun getting my hands messy again.  So I thought I’d share with you a couple of mixed media...

Doodley Update

  Hello everyone!  Yes I’m finally updating my blog!  In case you didn’t get a chance to log into the LineWeaving.com forums lately let me tell you that the winner of our ScorPal giveaway was BeckieLouHoo.  I sent the product to her in a pizza size...

Mail Art Score-Pal Giveaway!

  Miss Diana Crick is the designer of several crafty tools/toys to include those the family of Scor-Pal products.  Several weeks back she sent me a Scor-Pal to play with and an extra one to give away as a gift.  I really wanted to give this toy a good work out...

Creating ATC Series

  So I’m getting ready to host another ATC swap for the community in the LineWeaving.com forums. This one may be a little challenging for some of my line-art friends. That’s because the theme of this swap is “Serendipity Color First” and...

Cards with Windows and Fancy Edges

I finally got the video put together for the window cards and a few with fancy edging too. The pre-cut cards in this video were purchased at my local Michaels store. They come 8 in a package (with the envelopes too) and can be found in the dollar bin. Yes,...