Spoonflower.com allows you to print custom fabrics by uploading your own digital images.

When I was working in a library a few summers ago I came across a beautiful old map of Boston from 1858 – I made several copies of it, and one of them I used on the cover of this book.

Tiny red poppy drawings.

This is my first front page on Etsy under my new shop name of RuthBleakley.etsy.com – woohoo!

before and after photos of creating knockout white backgrounds

Step-by-step photos of Japanese Decoupaged Washi Eggs!!

I use a lot of snap-off utility knife blades when cutting through paper and cardboard – I was surprised when I opened the latest package to find little crystalized patches of rust on the back of one of the blades. I think they look like cool cross sections of wood.

Step-by-step of how I upcycled a pink gold-stamped journal into a nice black leather journal with fancy endpages.