Tutorials

• A few uses for decorative scissors
• Acrylic and baking soda background
• Alcohol and acrylics don't mix (or do they?)
• Alcohol and Sharpie markers
• Altered book embellishments
• Altering playing cards to make a junk journal
  
• Anything you can do (to paper, you can do to fabric, and vise versa)
• Art Flags: from dyeing to putting them together
• Baby wipe background
  
• Bubbles from soap background
• Celebrate Easter using Sculpey III polymer clay
• Cling wrap and fiber backgrounds or overlays
• Cling wrap backgrounds
• Color mists and handy wipe backgrounds or fabric accessories
• Color mists and paper towel backgrounds
• Comparing chalk and oil pastels
• Comparing gelatin printing plates 
• Comparing watercolor pencils to watercolor crayons
• Crackle technique and more
• Crayon (or wax) background
• Creating a background using a rubberized mat
  
• Creating an inexpensive background
• Creating backgrounds using coffee, Part 1
  
• Creating backgrounds using coffee, Part 2 
• Creating spreads in an altered book using only recycled materials 
• Creating stencils from used file folders using scissors
  
• Discharge (removing color from fabric) dyeing
• Dyed paper towels background
• Dyeing fabric using cabbage 
• Dyeing fabric using coffee
  
• Dyeing fabric using grape juice 
• Dyeing fabric using onion skins
• Dyeing fabric using orange peels 
  
• Dyeing using black beans
• Dyeing using turmeric 
• Dyeing using turmeric: a follow-up  
• Easy Backgrounds
• Easy Faux Rust (using cinnamon)
  
• Easy Faux rust (using paint and fusible web)
• Eco Fabric Dyeing, part 1
• Eco Fabric Dyeing, part 2
• Fabric and acrylic paint
• Fabric paper
• Fabulous paper flowers 
• Faux Cloisonné
• Faux shibori
• Faux Shibori, a follow-up 
• Faux tissue and washi tapes 
• First experiments using beeswax 
• Flower pounding on fabric
• Flower pounding on paper 
• Four ways to use petroleum jelly (aka Vaseline) in your art
• Freezer paper and alcohol ink background
• Fun fabric embellishments 
• Gel mediums
• Gel medium and watercolor background
• Gesso, masking, UHU temp glue
• Glitz and Glam background
• Grunge background 1
• Grunge background 2
  
• Handmade shimmer color mists (updated) 
• Handmade shimmer craft acrylics
  
• How to have an effective swap
• How to identify and shrink plastic from your recycle bin
• How to make a collographic plate
• How to make a fabric art journal cover
• How to pick a book to alter
• How to use a mask when rubber stamping
• How to use Evie's Emporium's steel forming block
• Ideas for making backgrounds using coffee (Part 1)
• Ideas for making backgrounds using coffee (Part 2) 
  
• Lutrador part 1: what it is and where to buy it
• Lutrador part 2: Portfolio Oil Pastels 
  
• Make your own Faux Alcohol Ink
• Make your own herbal or wine vinegar 
• Make your own vellum
  
• Making a MOO masterboard 
• Making bakers twine using Sharpies
• Making collage fodder pages 
  
• Making handmade stamps without special carving tools  
• Making Moulds For Handmade Paper
• Masking for dummies 
• Masking tape and magazine images background  
• Mixed media used with fabric in small art quilts
• Napkins and UHU glue background
• Napkins, paint, and rubber stamps background
• Nevr-Dull and magazine images as backgrounds
• Oil pastels and gesso background
• One stamp, one color used to make a masterboard
• One way to add tip-ins to a book
• One way to add tip-ins to a book (traditional)
• Organizing your work space (part 1)
• Organizing your work space (part 2) 
  
• Painting cheesecloth
• Painted papers (part 1) 
  
• Paste paper backgrounds (part 1) 
• Paste paper backgrounds (part 2)
• Piano hinge paper bag book
• Playing with polymer clay
• Playing with Twinkling H2Os
• Playing with UTEE
• Prepping a bird stencil
• Preserving leaves to use in an AB
• Protector sleeve and reinker background
• Quick and easy backgrounds 
• Quick and easy holiday cards 
• Quick stencils using a hand held punch
• Recipes (2) for making your own texture paste 
• Recycling newspapers into an "art" project 
• Recycling old acrylic paint
  
• Reinkers and craft sheet background
• Resists on paper using acrylics
• Resist painting on fabric with flour
• Resist: Part 1 (supplies, recipes, creating the resist)
• Resist: Part 2 (adding color)
• Resist: Part 3 (removing the resist)
• Rit fabric dyeing experiments
• Rusted Tea Dyeing 
• Rusting fabric and paper: the process
• Rusting fabric: process
• Rusting paper: process
• Rusting paper: results
• Sharpie play on fabric 
• Shaving cream backgrounds
• Shaving cream backgrounds using a different technique
• Shaving cream backgrounds using paper and fabric (updated) 
• Shaving cream and dye ink stenciled onto fabric
• Shibori fabric dyeing (using dye reinkers: updated)
• Shibori fabric painting (using Simply Spray Fabric Paint) 
• Smoosh and twist background
• Solvent ink and alcohol background
• Spray starch backgrounds
• Stencils
• Sunprinting fabric
• Three ways to add napkins to your art projects 
• Tips for creating scrappy journal pages
• Tissue paper and Sharpie background
• Tortured felt
• Transparency, shoe polish, and phone book
• Turn a clothes pin spring into a jump ring for jewelry
• Turn a snack food or cereal box into a textured canvas
• Turpentine and magazine background
• Two ways to make a catalog style envelope
  
• Two ways to make a fabric book cover 
• Tyvek: a pseudo tutorial
• Tyvek and acrylics background
• UHU glue and scrap paper background
• Understanding acrylic paints
  
• Using a steel forming block to make an altered book
• Using freebies, recyclables, and trash in an altered book or journal page
• Using paint or glazes and fabric with your collographic plate
• Using Shiva/Markel Paint Stik with your collographic plate
• Using various powders in your art 
• UTEE resist background
• Watercolors with gold leaf resist
• Waxed paper and ink background
• Water soluble crayons background turned into a frame
• Ways to use Shiva/Markal Paintstiks with stencils and rubbings
• Who can resist crayons?
• Who can resist crayons, too?