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Crayon Resists & Vintage Sheet Quilt

I read about another type of collage paper to make.  It sounded like fun, so I gave it a try.  (At some point I need to actually do some collage… But making the paper is fun in its own right!) Making Wax-Resist Paper is Simple! Start with paper, some crayons, and a textured surface.  Paper:I […]

Older Watercolor Exercises

Recent crafty doings: Started cutting the vintage sheets, but I haven’t gotten very far (at all)… Made a bunch of gel prints, but haven’t done anything with them, yet… Nothing else. With little else of a crafty nature to write about, now seems as good a time as any to post all the photos of […]

Cardstock Stencils & Watercolors

Keeping with the effort to blog more frequently, it’s time for another quick blog post!   You may remember from a few posts back that I cut some Sheltie shapes from cardstock.  I saved the pieces they were cut from, with the plan to see how they worked as stencils.  I specifically thought of using them […]