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Serendipity Squares
With the cost of good paper constantly on the rise, I feel compelled to save every little scrap leftover from my projects. After a flurry of activity, that pile of leftovers grows into a mountain. What...
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Throw Away Collage
Like many artists, I fall into habits when I’m working. I’ll find myself grabbing the same colors of paint or paper, or the same rubber stamp, even though the selection laying around in my studio is...
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Tiny Collage Squares
My birthday is next week, and I’ve learned to ask for cards and mail art if I want any sort of celebration. I posted a note in my blog asking for a little postal love, and one of the packages that...
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Scrap Paper Penants
This week, I decided to use up some of my scraps making some wall art for various arty friends. Rather than doing another square collage, I settled on triangular penants. They seemed sort of fun and...
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Quick Serendipity Bookmarks
In my local mixed-media group, we’ve been discussing the idea of leaving art in public places. I decided to make a few things to leave at this month’s meeting. Since our meeting is being held just a...
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Quick Pocket Calendar Fix
Here’s what I started with—your basic, ugly, dollar calendars. If I’m going to be stuck with carrying one of these around for two years, it had better be pretty! Luckily, these have clear vinyl covers...
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Inchie, Rinchie, Twinchie, Moo
Like most web site owners, I have a stats program attached to my sites that tells me what people are searching for when they visit—and lately, they’ve been searching for the term inchie. I hope this...
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How To Make Faux Tintypes
I’ve been collecting vintage photographs for about 15 years. Along the way, I’ve managed to aquire a small collection of tintypes. I thought these would look wonderful in a recent altered book project,...
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Altered Cabinet Cards
What’s a cabinet card? Here are some examples. They’re old photographs taken late in the 19th century or early in the 20th, mounted on heavy board. They usually have some sort of embossed section on...
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Faux Cabinet Cards
These two antique cabinet cards are complete fakes, made for an altered book layout about a train crash that happened in 1896. They started as a single black and white photo of a train that was taken...
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