I figured I would get the hang of taking good photos eventually, practice makes perfect, right? I felt like one out of every 20 snaps I took was good enough to use, and that was a little aggravating. To make my photos instantly professional (ha!), I picked up a light box. It's very fancy. It came with led lights, …
Category: Learning something new
My first Gelli prints
My first experimenting session with Gelli printing was a ton of fun. A Gelli Plate is a monoprinting tool that allows you to print backgrounds, unique art pieces, and pretty much whatever you want. I first heard about Gelli printing from Carolyn Dube's great YouTube videos and her website, A Colorful Journey. Her demos are fun …
Let’s try something new . . .
with some things old! A sewing kit that's been languishing A snippet of the 1000's of feet of baker's twine I can't help but buy A favorite sheet of polka dot paper 10 sheets of card stock that I thought was too huge to use A few funky stamps that I love And I've got …
Artist’s block
Okay, so I admit it, I have been sucked into the land of Pinterest-enabled malaise. I am spending way too much time envying other people's work, and not enough time creating my own. Am I afraid? Am I lazy? Am I any good at this? Maybe if I look for just a few more minutes at these …
And so begins my love affair with letterpress
Last week I was fortunate enough to take an orientation to letterpress class at Dartmouth Book Arts. For three hours, I learned the terminology: typeface, furniture, quoins, pica, Vandercook; played with lead type and wooden type; chose typeface (out of 100s of fonts!); set my quote using a composing stick; watched as our instructor proofed our page; …
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Learning something new
So, have I taken my last post to heart? Have I been investigating new forms of paper crafts? Well, I took a quilting class! Which for me was also a rotary cutter class, an ironing class, and a sewing machine refresher course. Over the last few weeks I spent 12 hours with my friend Ruth, …
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