The always fabulous Barbe Saint John turned me on to The Artful Storybook, which arrived this week via Amazon.com. It’s a mixed-media approach to creating storybooks—so, rather than making an altered book with a general theme and random artwork, you use your artwork to tell and illustrate a story from beginning to [...]

Dover has released McCain & Obama paper dolls designed by Tom Tierney. Who knew paper dolls could be political?
I used to collect Tom Tierney paper dolls when I was a costume designer. His drawings are wonderfully full of detail, and he does a lot of historically accurate designs. All of them are available from Dover, [...]

I’ve been a long time user of Ranger’s Adirondack alcohol inks ever since Tim Holtz slid me my first set of them at a trade show. At the time, I thought he was kind of nuts, because I truly didn’t see what was so great about them. After spending some time splashing about with them, [...]

When I updated the article on my favorite glues last month, Kelli got in touch with me about trying some Amazing EcoGlue from Eclectic Products. They’re the folks that make my favorite stinky, brain-cell killing adhesive, E6000.
Well, two packages of Amazing EcoGlue arrived at my house yesterday, and I’ve been gluing this to that [...]

I talked about this book last year when I bought it, but for those who missed it: this book is a MUST for folks who love altered books!
Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason is a cross between an altered book, an art journal, and a mystery novel. It tells a [...]