My mom, Kathy, put together a video showing how she makes “tea bag” style ephemera for her junk journals! Kathy does a lot of interesting things with used tea bags and other “junk” items. She…
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Be a more confident artist: share your art online!
There comes a point when you want to share something you’ve made. You’re really excited about a particular collage and want to show it off– so you join a few Facebook groups, make an account…
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Where to get free fonts for digital art (and how to upload fonts to Canva)
Normally collages are pretty image-heavy, and don’t have a whole heap of text. But if you’ve started making digital art journal pages (like me), then you’re suddenly including a lot of text in your collages!…
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How to make a digital collage: Finding a subject
Collages are an excellent way to tell a story or show your perspective on something. While it’s fun to just slap images onto a background and see what happens, it can be even more satisfying…
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Get organized! How to store digital collage elements in Canva
The more digital collages you create, the more image elements you end up collecting. It’s just a fact of life for a digital artist! I started off with a tiny collection of vintage photographs and…
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How to make a digital collage: Focus image
Depending on your collage style, you may or may not want to have a “focus image.” I come from the world of mixed media art journals, where usually there’s a specific photo or drawing that…
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How to declutter a paper ephemera collection
If you’ve been crafting for a while, you’ve probably collected a huge amount of paper, photos, magazines, and junk— not to mention all the paint, ink, stamps, and stencils that you need to make an…
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