“How to find your whimsy” is a zine that includes a variety of ideas and photos for adding everyday joy to your life. ms.writteninthestars and I made this together!
Printed copies are available in my Etsy shop (U.S. only) and via trading (anywhere mail can go).
Details:
16 pages (including covers)
Finished zine measure 5.25 inches high x 4 inches wide
Covers are printed in full color on white cardstock
Here’s a rundown of my process for making this page:
Searched for images on Unsplash. (See image credits at the end of this post.)
Uploaded the muse image to Canva to convert to black and white and edit the background. Downloaded as png.
Opened the edited version in Affinity to add the texture image. Downloaded as png.
Went to Pixlr and opened the edited image. Added the glitch filter and adjusted settings. Downloaded as png.
Uploaded the edited version to Canva. Added text. Downloaded as png.
There are definitely other ways of making a digital collage like this. Probably with less jumping between apps. But for this collage, I went to the apps that I knew could do the work I wanted. Streamlining the process wasn’t my priority.
Images credits:
Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry 1798 Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832) France, late 18th-early 19th century oil on canvas Overall: 275 x 177 cm (108 1/4 x 69 11/16 in.) Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2003.6.4 (public domain)
New zine! 💫 “Your Home on the Web” is a 16-page zine about low tech, low cost ways to make a simple website or blog. Notes for each platform include a description, key features, and pricing.
The zine encourages you to have your own space on the internet, away from mainstream social media platforms.
Details:
16 pages (including covers)
Finished zine measure 5.5 inches high x 4.25 inches wide
Printed in full color on white paper
Folded by hand and bound with staples
How to read this zine:
Physical copies are available in my Etsy shop (U.S. only 🇺🇸)
Here’s a quick video that shows how I use a pencil mug to flatten my zines. Very simple, low-tech. But I’ve gotten a few questions about it, so I thought it was worth showing.
I drew some background pages for a new zine I’m working on.
Pretty simple process.
Draw a lot of random dots on a piece of paper.
Draw straight lines to connect dots. I change direction when going to a new dot. It’s okay to cross over an existing line, but I do not go through an exisiting dot.
Planetesimal is a zine series where each issue includes flash fiction. Some stories are interconnected while others stand alone.
Issue 1 includes one story, “The Accident.”
Emily recently discovered she has special abilities related to weather and nature. A truck accident forces her to choose between keeping her abilities a secret or revealing them to her friend, Mark. (This story originally appeared in a podcast episode for VLASINDA’s Desolate Library.)
Printed copies are available in my Etsy shop (U.S. only). I’m also open to trading (anywhere mail can go).
Zine details:
The zine cover is a handmade collage
All text is typed
8 pages (including covers)
Finished zine measure 4 inches wide x 5.25 inches high
With no particular timing in mind, I’m going to move the non-zine-related posts on this site to my personal site, kalikambo.com. Keeping this site for zines only and then everything else on kalikambo.com is easier for me.
As is, when I have art to post, I have to decide where it fits more – here or kalikambo. And sometimes it’s hard to be consistent about what goes on which site.
Just a head’s up, if you notice some posts are no longer here.
Someone on Etsy asked if I planned on making more copies of “Timers for travelers.”
I’m not planning on printing more copies any time soon, but I thought it was a good opportunity to make a digital version. The PDF version of “Timers for travelers” is now available on Ko-fi (free/pay what you want).
One hundred copies of my PDF tutorial, “How to design a mini zine in Canva,” have been downloaded on Ko-fi. 😃 I’m glad people continue to find it, and hopefully they’re making lots of zines!
How I Keep a Journal is a zine about my journaling habit. It includes a short background on my journaling style, how I set up my notebook, and how journaling helps me. I wrote everything by hand, which is not my norm for zines with a lot of text. 😅 But it fits the journaling theme.
The zine is printed in color, double-sided, on white 8.5x11-inch paper.
I’m not sure what zines I’ll be working on this month, but I am always open to trading zines! I’ll send zines anywhere mail can go. Check out my trading page for details. 📬 🌎
I made my first cyanotype today at a local print festival. This is a printing process that uses photo-sensitive paper and chemicals to produce a blue-colored print.
The first step is arranging items on the paper. Then you put a pane of glass on top to keep everything in place. This setup has to sit for about 5 minutes, like exposure time for the paper.
Then the paper gets washed in water. For this specific paper, you can put a few drops of hydrogen peroxide on the page and wipe it over the surface to make the blue more saturated.
After drying (easy in a heatwave) and flattening the paper, it looks like this.
The new issue of Carrier Pigeon Quarterly is available! This is a guide to new zine and comics releases, organized by Joe Hohman.
I have a zine listed in this issue, and I’m excited to see what other work was included!
