Ease Your Nerves, Blow Your Mind

Packing Tape Transfers = Magic!

If you know how or why a week has blown by in five minutes, do let me know. I have a draft in process for HHB “regular programming” but it’s a skosh delayed because I wanted, no, needed to get this next craft to you.

I stand by the healing power of making things. It’s pretty much the original mindfulness technique. The technique this week, packing tape transfers, has the added benefit of image-making magic so it’s sure to spark a bunch of other ideas. New ideas are the anecdote to anxiety, rumination, the hum-drums, worry, boredom, fiddle-faddling, wallowing, etc.

Just like the Party Flowers last week, this one doesn’t take a lot of time or set up.

What You’ll Need

Magazines, packing tape, container for water, and scissors

Extras/Good to Have

Towel/rag and any glass or clear plastic thing you want to slap a cool image on

The video above goes over the whole process. You’ll be a multi-media artist in the time it takes to check your email. As an emailer of craft videos and blog posts, I should say I am glad you check your email.

If you catch the image transfer bug, I highly recommend Playing with Image Transfers: Exploring Creative Imagery for Use in Art, Mixed Media, and Design by Courtney Cerruti.

And if you missed the Party Flowers party, here’s the post with all you need to know:

Flower Obsesh

And and if you missed my previous post about flowers and grief and life:

You’re The Best

Thank you again for reading, and now watching¹. I’d love to hear what you think, how it’s going, or even see what you made.

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Until next time!

1. In case anyone reading is a video production professional, I appreciate y’all looking past my blown-out footage. Still working on my set up and cannot afford a colorist at this time.