After we learned that we needed to make Valentine’s Day cards for B&B’s classes, I took a cue from one of their school materials: the Metal Insets. A couple of wooden hearts, wooden pegs, and wood glue later… TA DA! ‘Wooden’ Insets (all from JoAnn’s).
The kids have gone to town with these. They love tracing [...]
Last year for my birthday, my ILs got me something I had been coveting for a long time: a Wacom tablet. I miss drawing and since I’m always on the computer anyway, I thought this might ease me back into it. Unfortunately I haven’t had as much time with it as I would have liked, [...]
The makings of our Chrismukkah holiday card:
Before
After
The Photoshop laundry list: extend the background on top, clean up the lights, remove the props holding up the tree and the menorah, mess with the colors, and take Buddy’s face and cape from another photo. Also, angle his hands so his candle is touching the star. Oh and [...]
Some of you asked, so here are the steps for Bean’s Hello Kitty mask.
To be honest, it was a bit of a pain in the ass, but that was partly because I had never used Sculptamold before (I was looking for some papier mâché type of material, but JoAnn’s didn’t have it), and partly because [...]
Welcome to my online studio. Since I like to take up — nay, copy — (you’ll soon see what I mean by that) random projects and bury myself in fabric, instructions, yarn, glue, paper, etc., I thought I would maintain an online journal to document the process. Sometimes I create something and months later, want [...]
