by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor If you can cut shapes from a square of black paper, you can design your own personal fabric prints! Yes, I am talking to you! Don’t believe me? Then you have not tried out the nifty method for designing repeating patterns in Design Magic For Paintstik On Fabric. […]
Archives for July 2014
What Are You Going to Make From That?
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor Video: Just What Are You Going To Make From That? In today’s video, I explore three ways to shut off that nagging little voice that says, “just what are you going to make with that?” whenever I want to play. I hope you find my strategies helpful! “Things […]
30 Days of Design Magic
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor In 2010, I published my second book called Design Magic for Paintstiks on Fabric. I did extensive work with the design method laid out in the book for a couple of years before and after the book was published. Then I set it aside and moved on to […]
Care & Feeding of the Creative Business Owner
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor As an artist who loves to write, I was thrilled when Morna McEver, CEO of the International Association of Creative Arts Professionals (ICAP), asked me to write a column on Creativity for their quarterly journal. This article appeared in the Winter 2014 issue under the title Five Ways […]
From Kaleidoscope Fabric To Beautiful Bag
In last week’s tutorial, I told you about my process for creating overlapping rubbings from the new Kaleidoscope plates. (Click here to read that article if you missed it.) This week, I am happy to show you my beautiful new handbag. I love making handbags from fabric I create. They are one-of-a-kind bags that do […]
