“What I most love about scrapbooking…is that every time I fill a page with photographs, quotes, and mementos, I am collecting proof of a good life.”
— Amy Tangerine, Craft a Life You Love
Big Announcement - A New Online Class!
As much as I love to travel to teach classes all over the world, the reality is that I just cannot get to most places. Someone needs to invent teleportation! Until then, I am excited to announce that Jamie Waters and I are launching our first class together, The Creative Life: Documented!…
Share Handmade Kindness Challenge
Absolutely love this new movement and challenge that Jennifer McGuire is putting out for the month of November. Watch her video, and then you can also watch mine. Hope you're inspired to take on the challenge as well!…
October Favorites
A round up in video form of 10 (or so) random things I am loving right now. Definitely thinking of making this a monthly series - hope you all like some of the stuff I'm currently crushing on!…
DIY Halloween Tee Shirt
With Halloween just around the corner, I've come together with some other Kin Community creators to bring you a Trick or Treat collaboration. I really wanted to showcase the reverse applique technique we've been using on tee shirts for over 12 years,…
Jack's 2nd Birthday Party!
We had a total ball at Jack's 2nd birthday party a couple weeks ago. I wanted something where everyone would be able to come over and enjoy the backyard festivities, with just enough DIY elements to make it feel special…
2 Easy Watercolor DIY Projects!
How about two super easy watercolor DIY projects that don't even actually involve any paint or water? It might feel like cheating, but I absolutely love the results…
DIY YAY Tee Shirt!
As most of you probably know, I have been designing tee shirts for many years. Since 2002 to be exact. I was 24 years old, working as a freelance stylist and cocktail waitress…
DIY Photo Mugs!
I can't even tell you how excited I am about a little thing called a mug press. For my collaboration with Pro World, I started to dream up ideas for making custom items and felt giddy. It reminded me of when I was 23 years old, thinking about starting a tee shirt line back in 2002…
DIY Bus T-Shirt
As much as I didn't want to go too crazy for Jack's 2nd birthday party this weekend, I may have already gone a bit overboard…
Easy Letterpress at Home Tutorial
Call me crazy, but I really didn't want to even try letterpress at home because I didn't want to get hooked on another crafty obsession…
DIY Wedding Projects!
First, I just have to admit that though JC and I recently got engaged, we haven't done any wedding planning yet... whatsoever. We haven't set a date…
Paper Gems
As it turns out, most of my paper crafting experience has resulted in flat projects. Flat in a flattering way, meaning 2D, not 3D…
Scrapbook Albums That Rock
Turn old records into the covers of your scrapbook albums. It's easy and fun! It makes for a cool personalized album that can contain pages that go along with the theme of the record if you'd like…
Design On Time || Episode 04
Happy Tuesday everyone. We had our first food related challenge this week on Design On Time, care of food blogger and author Landria Voigt…
Thrive Canvas
My One Little Word for 2014 was "thrive". Jack was just a few months old when I chose the word. It seemed fitting as a new mom…
4x4 Gift Album by Shanna
I love taking that extra step when giving gifts!!!! Last year for Christmas Addison got an instax camera (she has wanted one for years) so I wanted to get her a little album…
From Start to Finish Stitched Layout
We've been trying to set up the studio in a way that I can shoot more videos of my process. I love seeing techniques and how other folks do the things they do in short, concise videos…
Happy Valentine's Day
Yesterday I took Jack, my dad and his wife (they are in town from Atlanta for the long weekend) on an adventure to The Grove for the Paper Crown + Rifle Paper Co Pop Up shop…