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Triangles galore! Making a texture plate out of Contact paper

What goes around comes around -- to my mailbox

Deck the halls with bags of coffee -- my upcycled holiday door wreaths

Vintage books finds, from pop art to scary nurses

Revenge of the Felines, part 3

Revenge of the felines part 2

Revenge of the felines -- postcats for iHanna swap

Nothing to fear -- collage of faces from 1940

A gallery of shadowy figures

Charmed, I'm sure -- repurposing word tiles from a second-hand board game

Trick or treat or…de-stash?

Two more new (to me) art journal techniques

Gonna mail myself a letter -- making custom postage stamps from old books

Most likely to succeed -- turning old yearbook photos into collage art

Gelli plate to the rescue! Junk mail makeover

Drawing at the museum, Part 2

2 New Postcards

Make your own abstract stamps for just a dollar

Another accordion book -- more colorful, more bizarre

Watch the art unfold -- An accordion book filled with tiny collages

Fun with Foam Stamps

Contemporary art in the Windy City

Rewind: Using old VHS cases to organize my colored pencils

5 things I learned from making art every day for 2 months (ICAD)

Looking at My Chin-Colle Collage

Can art prevent another giant spider invasion?

Book review: Collage Sourcebook

Let's go goggling

Collage is never dull -- Making 40+ abstract backgrounds in just 15 minutes

What on earth can I do with paint chips?

A few of my favorite June ICADs

Part 2 of my art-intensive week -- starting a mixed media art journal

Part 1 of my art-making-intensive week: Gelli plate workshop

Sketching at the museum

Treasury of truly kitschy art and photos from the 50s

Blinded me with science: Another Gelli print collage

Stamp nirvana at the Artist Garage Sale

Doodling on Gelli Prints

Raining caterpillars and hopping blogs

Why we do what we do -- around the world blog hop

Abracadabra -- making magic stamps for Gelli plate printing

More Gelli and Googie -- an eye-catching design

Maybe mambo -- making a stencil for my Gelli plate

More postcards, more art

Postcards in my mailbox! Birds and circles and sparkles, oh my!

Googie meets Gelli -- Retro 50s Design

Postcards 9 & 10: Things that go bump in the wind

Postcards 7 & 8: London falling

Thank-you cards made from practice Gelli prints

Postcards 5 & 6: Let's bungle in the jungle

Postcards #3 and #4 in shades of grey

Just say "yes" -- to a new Scrabble tile creation

Postcard swap redux -- a peek at my first two collages

How a mixed-media collage unleashed my subconscious

Playing with Gelli

Everything you ever wanted to know about Scrabble tiles. Almost.

Making bookmarks out of money -- play, money that is!

My favorite part of upcycling

Carving repeating stamps -- it's all in the details

Creating art without Undo

Turning a goofy photo into a cool stamp