This Collagraph design incorporates three Collagraph plates made with Sticky-back craft foam and stencils designed by Gwen Lafleur. Hi Everybody, I'm back to share with you another tutorial for Gwen Lafleur Studios Artist Tribe. In this post I’m going to show you how to use your stencils to make a collagraph. If you don't know what a collagraph is, let me explain. We all know what Gelli prints are, right? They are all over FaceBook, Instagram, and Pinterest these days. Well, Collagraph prints are a distant cousin of the Gelli prints; they just haven't gotten as much attention. Gelli prints... Read more →

Hi Everyone, Popping in today to share with you a brand new Infinity Flip and my overwhelming excitement about being published for the first time. I'm absolutely thrilled that my tutorial for making this Flip was published in the March/April Issue of Cloth Paper Scissors! (My Mom would have been so proud....) It's been really hard not to shout it from the rooftops about it before now. I'm so appreciative that Cloth Paper Scissor gave me this opportunity. The staff a the magazine Cloth were wonderful to work with and they made it a great experience for me. You can... Read more →

Through out the month of February, Gwen Lafleur Studios and the Artist Tribe are celebrating Chinese New Year. I’m especially excited about this theme because 2018 is the Year of the Dog. And I’m definitely a dog person. To spice things up a bit, I'm presenting this project to you as if I were staging a play. I turned to a thrift shop found book titled Chinese Mythology by Anthony Christie, (Hamlin, 1968) for some inspiration. It included a story about a dog who married a Princess. I began speculating about the rocky start to the dog and his father-in-law's... Read more →