If you have ever stopped into the shop, you know I have a thing for ATCs, or artist trading cards. ATCs are 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 pieces of art. Mine are usually mixed media abstracts, but they can be anything you do creatively-collage, drawing, stamping, painting, printing, e...

I picked up a new pen set and I'm so excited by them I am going to order them for the store. If you grew up in the 80's you know about LePens. Well the company that makes them, Uchida, has a line of blendable marker pens called ColorIn, and I've been playing with the b...

You may have noticed the "Make Your Own Craftiness Journal" link is now active, and on that page I show you how to hand bind a hard cover journal. I reference something called book cloth in the article, and now I want to show you how you can make your own. Book cloth i...

So, what makes an art journal? A journal is defined as:

1. A daily record of news and events of a personal nature; a diary.

And art is defined as:

1. The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or...

When I closed the Urban Craft Center in 2012 I knew there would be a part of me that was going to go unexpressed for a while. I'm not sure what to call that part of me, but this last year or so it has been clamoring louder and louder to be noticed. Hence this new ventu...