Attaching Your Earthshard Faces: A Free Mini-Lesson

I am so grateful to have sold thousands of my Earthshard Faces all over the world to Spirit Doll makers and other inspired artisans. Perhaps you have made a spirit doll using one of them. This lesson is designed to give you easy, effective ways to attach those faces to your creations whether they are flat or three dimensional. You can use these techniques with any small, concave faces - they certainly don't have to be the ones I make for my Etsy Shop (www.etsy.com/shop/EarthShards). You can make your own faces using air-dry clay and flexible molds and do the same things. And you can use the same ideas to attach other kinds of objects to various surfaces.

Course•By Lyn Belisle

BEHIND THE VEIL: Beeswax and Collage

An all-level exploration that gently introduces you to the magic of encaustic in mixed media

Course•By Lyn Belisle

Connected Collage: An Art Journal Page

Course•By Lyn Belisle

COOKING UP A COLLABORATION

Two Artists, One Theme, Unlimited Possibilites

Course•By Michelle Belto

NEO SANTOS: New Interpretations of Folk Art Saints and Angels

Simple assemblages that reflect pesonal reflections and vision

Course•By Lyn Belisle

Objects of Devotion: Creating Contemporary Reliquaries and Icons

A small shrine for someone—or something—you never want to forget. Some gifts arrive in the form of people. Others come as places, animals, mentors, memories, or moments of unexpected grace. In this workshop, we will create a small shrine of gratitude—a reliquary honoring something that has profoundly influenced who we have become.

Course•By Lyn Belisle

Objects of Devotion: The Offering Banner

Creating a Personal Devotional Banner in Paper, Cloth, Image, and Found Materials n this mixed-media workshop, we’ll create a single personal Offering Banner: a layered hanging artwork built around memory, meaning, and intention. Using paper, fabric, photographs or imagery, stitching, found materials, and simple fusion techniques, we’ll explore five layers of meaning: Ground, Image, Symbol, Fragment, and Offering. Your banner might hold a remembrance, a gratitude, a wish, a promise, or a blessing. It can be secular, spiritual, deeply personal, or simply intuitive. Along the way, you’ll discover intriguing ways to combine paper and fiber, incorporate meaningful fragments, create hidden pockets and offerings, and add dimensional details. The result will be more than a collage or textile—it will be a personal object of devotion, made to honor what matters and carry something meaningful forward.

Course•By Lyn Belisle

Pretty Paper Pendant Pockets

A delightful all-level mixed media paper project with unlimited possibilities

Course•By Lyn Belisle

SACRED SERENDIPITY: NATURE SHRINES & ASSEMBLAGES

Art inspired by the discovery of natural objects and a reverence for ourselves and the earth

Course•By Lyn Belisle

SECRETS OF THE SPIRIT BOX

Mixed-Media Assemblage with a Secret

Course•By Lyn Belisle

Spirit & Form: Creating Vessels of Passage and Purpose

Spirit & Form: Creating Vessels of Passage and Purpose is a richly layered mixed-media workshop that invites you to explore the vessel as a metaphor for memory, transformation, and the stories we carry. Using tied cane and mulberry paper as the structural foundation, you’ll craft sculptural boats and vessels imbued with personal meaning. Along the way, you'll incorporate beeswax, rust, found objects, clay, and wire—materials chosen not only for their texture and form but for their resonance with the themes of holding, passage, and spirit. Whether you're new to mixed media or a seasoned maker, this course offers an intuitive, soul-nourishing approach to both materials and metaphor.

Course•By Lyn Belisle

STRANDS OF LIGHT: A Prayer Flag Sampler

Five brilliant ways to fuse fiber, paper, words, and images that promote compassionate creativity

Course•By Lyn Belisle

Sumi-e Painting: Simplicity and Serenity

Practice this ancient painting process to discover your centered artist self

Course•By Lyn Belisle

The 30-Minute Chapbook Journal

An all-level simply-sewn booklet with infinite uses for artists and writers

Course•By Lyn Belisle

The Amazing One-Page X-Book

A versatile little art book with endless variations

Course•By LYN BELISLE

THE ENDURING KIMONO: FORM AND PATTERN

eclectic surface design techniques through origami

Course•By Lyn Belisle

The Keeper of Fragments: A Devotional ReliquaryFigure

This is a figure that not only watches over your space, but holds what you cannot throw away. Description: A dimensional collage figure that serves as both guardian and archive—designed to hold letters, papers, and fragments that carry personal meaning. Part spirit figure, part archive, this piece is designed to hold what matters—letters, fragments, and veiled remnants of memory—offering them a place of presence and protection. In this workshop, we will create a wall-mounted guardian figure that functions as both a symbolic presence and a keeper of personal materials. Using layered papers, textiles, and sculptural elements, you will build spaces within the piece to hold documents, notes, and fragments that carry meaning.

Course•By Lyn Belisle

The Listening Vessel: For Stories Spoken and Unspoken

This workshop is about developing a relationship with your work as a listener—an object that receives stories, absorbs meaning, and offers a place for things to rest. Some of these stories are clear and remembered. Others are partial, unfinished, or never spoken at all. The vessel does not ask them to be complete—it simply makes room for them to exist. Like a whispered secret offered into a small, protected space, the Listening Vessel becomes a place of quiet trust—where what is given does not need to be explained or revealed, only held. The Listening Vessel becomes a space for presence rather than answers— a place where stories and meaning can gather in their own time, and where not knowing is allowed to remain.

Course•By Lyn Belisle

The Lotus Book

Unfolding Beauty

Course•By Lyn Belisle

The Simple Grace of Spirit Dolls

Bring healing and heartfelt purpose to a simple twig and fiber creation which reflects the best of yourself

Course•By Lyn Belisle

Tokens and Talismans: Personal Objects of Meaning and Small Devotional Collections.

Tokens and Talismans celebrates the art of gathering and remembering. Using collage papers, clay fragments, fiber, beads, and found objects, you'll learn to create two small devotional pieces—one a magnetic collage talisman that can be worn or displayed, and another a fiber-and-found-object pendant or wall hanging. These tiny companions become personal markers of memory, hope, gratitude, and wonder—small objects meant to be kept close and revisited often.

Course•By Lyn Belisle

WANDERERS

enigmatic figures wrapped with handcrafted grace and spirit

Course•By Lyn Belisle