My Favorite Supplies
Decoupage Papers & Napkins
Beautiful papers and napkins I like using for decoupage, mixed-media projects, jars, bottles, home décor, and handmade gifts.
Decoupage Rice Papers
Rice paper is one of my favorite choices for decoupage because it's easy to work with, layers beautifully, and enhances artwork on bottles, jars, wood pieces, canvas, and mixed media projects.
Decoupage Napkins
Decoupage napkins are one of my favorite ways to add beautiful patterns and soft detail to jars, bottles, wood pieces, ornaments, and home décor. I love how they blend seamlessly into the surface, creating a delicate, hand-painted look, especially when protected with a quality varnish.
Craft Tools
Welcome to my collection of favorite craft tools! These are the little helpers that make a big difference in my creative process. I’ve chosen tools that I personally use and love to help you enjoy crafting even more.
Bowdabra
Create beautiful, professional-looking bows in minutes with the Bowdabra Bow Maker. Whether you're decorating wreaths, gift packages, home décor, floral arrangements, or craft projects, this handy tool makes it quick and easy to create perfectly shaped bows every time. It works with a variety of ribbons and takes the frustration out of bow making, so you can spend more time creating and less time fussing with ribbon.
Cup Cradle
Don't let your projects roll away! This durable silicone cup cradle keeps bottles, mugs, tumblers, glasses, vases, and other round items securely in place while you work with decoupage papers, paints, varnishes, and other favorite crafting supplies. It's perfect for painting, mixed media projects, resin art, and decorating, giving you better control while helping prevent smudges, spills, and accidents.
Mini Hand Sander
This compact hand sander is perfect for smoothing wood, MDF, resin, clay, painted surfaces, and more. Its comfortable grip provides better control for detailed sanding, making it ideal for preparing surfaces before painting, decoupage, and mixed media projects. A beautifully smooth surface helps create professional-looking results every time.
Mona Lisa Pink Brush Soap
Clean, condition, and help preserve your paintbrushes with Mona Lisa Pink Brush Soap. This versatile cleaner removes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paint from brushes while helping reshape and condition the bristles. To clean brushes, place a few drops in the palm of your hand and gently work the soap through the bristles until the paint is removed. Rinse thoroughly and reshape the brush before drying.
Nail Art Liner Brushes
Nail Art Liner Brushes are one of my favorite tools for adding fine details and delicate finishing touches to craft projects. They're perfect for painting intricate lines, highlighting raised details, adding shading, and applying small accents with precision. These versatile brushes provide the control needed for decoupage, mixed media, painting, and DIY home décor projects.
Polyvine Varnish Brush
The Polyvine Varnish Brush is the perfect tool for achieving a smooth, professional finish on all your craft and DIY projects. Designed specifically for applying varnishes, this high-quality brush provides even coverage while minimizing brush marks and streaks. It's ideal for decoupage, painted furniture, mixed media projects, and home décor, making it easy to seal and protect your creations with beautiful results.
Princeton Select Synthetic Detail Brush
The Princeton Synthetic Detail Brush is perfect for adding crisp lines, fine details, and delicate finishing touches to your craft projects. Its high-quality synthetic bristles provide exceptional control for intricate painting, highlighting molded details, and other precision work. It's an excellent choice for decoupage, mixed media, decorative painting, and DIY home décor projects whenever every detail matters.
Round Synthetic Artist Sponges
Round Synthetic Artist Sponges are one of my favorite tools for creating soft, blended backgrounds, adding texture, and achieving beautiful paint effects. They're perfect for stenciling, shading, antiquing, and decorative painting, making them a versatile addition to your craft room. Reusable and easy to clean, they're ideal for decoupage, mixed media, and DIY home décor projects.
Sponge Stippler Set
A Sponge Stippler Set is one of my favorite tools for creating beautiful texture and soft, blended finishes. They're perfect for stenciling, pouncing paint, antiquing, and adding depth to decorative painting, decoupage, mixed media, and DIY home décor projects. Reusable and easy to clean, they're a versatile addition to any crafter's toolkit.
Synthetic Sea Sponges
Synthetic Sea Sponges are one of my favorite tools for creating beautiful texture, soft color variations, and unique decorative finishes. They're perfect for faux painting, blending, antiquing, and adding depth to decoupage, mixed media, and home décor projects. Durable, reusable, and easy to clean, they make it simple to create beautiful, professional-looking effects.
Uchida Double Ended Jewel Picker
The Uchida Double Ended Jewel Picker is one of those little tools that makes a big difference. It's perfect for picking up and placing rhinestones, pearls, gems, sequins, and other tiny embellishments with ease and precision. Whether you're decorating mixed media projects, home décor, greeting cards, or handmade gifts, you'll wonder how you ever crafted without it!
Water Brush
A Water Brush is one of my favorite crafting tools because it's so versatile. I use it to separate decoupage napkins and rice paper without tearing, blend watercolors, soften paint, and add delicate details to my projects. Its refillable design provides excellent control, making it an essential tool for decoupage, mixed media, and DIY craft projects.
Paints, Varnishes & Finishes
Paints, varnishes, and finishes I use to add color, seal, and protect my projects.
Polyvine Heavy Duty Varnish
This is my go-to varnish for most of my projects. I especially love using it on high-use pieces like coasters, trays, tabletops, and home décor that need extra protection from everyday wear, moisture, and the heat from mugs. It provides a beautiful, durable finish that's perfect for decoupage, painted surfaces, and mixed media projects whenever I need more protection than a standard craft sealer can provide.
Polyvine Multi Surface Lacquer
This is my go-to product for preparing slick surfaces like glass, ceramic, laminate, plastic, and metal before painting or decoupaging. It creates a grippy base that helps paints, decoupage napkins, rice paper, and protective finishes adhere beautifully for long-lasting results.
Polyvine Decorator’s Varnish
A quality varnish is great for sealing and protecting decoupage projects. It provides a smooth, durable finish that's perfect for decoupage napkins, rice paper, painted surfaces, and mixed media projects, helping protect your work while giving it a beautiful, professional-looking finish.
Polyvine Exterior Extreme Varnish
Polyvine Exterior Extreme Varnish is my go-to choice for protecting outdoor craft and décor projects. Its durable, weather-resistant formula defends against moisture, UV rays, and everyday wear while maintaining a beautiful, clear finish. I love using it on painted signs, planters, garden décor, outdoor furniture, and other exterior projects that need long-lasting protection from the elements.
Winsor & Newton Solvent Based Gloss Varnish
Protect finished artwork and craft projects with a clear, high-gloss finish using Winsor & Newton Artists’ Gloss Varnish. This professional-quality solvent-based varnish dries to a transparent, non-yellowing film that helps protect finished surfaces from dirt and grease while enhancing the depth and richness of the colors beneath.
Great for fine-line crackle projects: Because this is a solvent-based varnish, it is a good option to consider as a final sealer for Pentart Fineline Crackle.
Polyvine Metal Leaf Size
Polyvine Metal Leaf Size is my favorite adhesive for applying gold, silver, copper, and other metal leaf. It creates the perfect tacky surface for smooth, even application, helping you achieve beautiful metallic finishes with ease. I love using it to add elegant metallic accents to furniture, home décor, mixed media, and decorative craft projects.
Pentart Paint
Pentart Acrylic Paints are my go-to choice for beautiful color, excellent coverage, and a smooth, easy-to-use finish. They work beautifully on wood, canvas, MDF, glass, metal, and many other surfaces, making them perfect for decorative painting, decoupage, mixed media, and DIY home décor projects. Whether I'm base coating, dry brushing, antiquing, or adding fine details, I know they'll deliver vibrant, professional-looking results.
Dixie Belle Chalk Mineral Paint
Dixie Belle Chalk Mineral Paint is my go-to choice for furniture makeovers and decorative projects. Its rich pigmentation, exceptional coverage, and smooth matte finish require little to no prep on most surfaces. I love how beautifully it blends, how easily it distresses for a vintage look, and how versatile it is for decoupage, mixed media, and DIY home décor projects.
Antiquing Supplies
Create beautiful vintage, aged finishes with antiquing mediums and products designed to add depth, dimension, and character to your craft projects, furniture makeovers, and home décor.
Folkart Antiquing Medium
FolkArt Antiquing Medium is one of my favorite products for creating beautiful aged, vintage-inspired finishes. Simply apply it over a painted surface and wipe away the excess to instantly enhance details, add depth and dimension, and create an authentic antique look. It's perfect for furniture, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects.
DecoArt Glazing Medium
DecoArt Glazing Medium is one of my favorite products for creating custom-colored antiquing finishes. Simply mix it with acrylic paint to create the exact antiquing color you want, then apply it over your painted surface and wipe away the excess to enhance details, add depth and dimension, and achieve a beautiful aged finish. It also extends the working time of acrylic paints, making blending and glazing easier for furniture, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects.
Pentart Antiquing Paste Umber
Pentart Antiquing Paste in Umber is one of my favorite products for adding instant depth and dimension to a project. It's perfect for highlighting raised details, molds, carvings, and textured surfaces while creating a beautiful aged, rustic finish. I love using it on furniture, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects to bring out every detail. Available in 7 beautiful shades—just choose your favorite from the dropdown menu.
Adhesives
The glues and adhesives I trust to create strong, lasting bonds for decoupage, mixed media, home décor, and all kinds of creative projects.
Aleene's Tacky Glue
Aleene's Original Tacky Glue is my go-to adhesive for countless craft projects. Its thick, fast-grabbing formula provides a strong, reliable bond, dries clear, and works beautifully on paper, wood, fabric, embellishments, and many other craft materials. Whether I'm creating, decorating, or repairing, it's one of those products I always keep within reach in my studio.
Pixie Spray Stencil Adhesive
Pixie Spray Stencil Adhesive is one of my favorite tools for achieving crisp, professional-looking stencil designs. Its repositionable, low-tack formula holds stencils securely in place, helping reduce paint bleed while removing cleanly from most surfaces. It's perfect for decorative painting, furniture makeovers, signs, mixed media, and DIY craft projects whenever you want beautiful, clean results.
Clay and Texture Pastes
Create beautiful dimension and texture in your projects with versatile clays and texture pastes. Perfect for molds, raised designs, embellishments, and mixed media creations, these products add unique details and artistic depth to your handmade pieces.
Das Clay White
DAS Air Hardening Clay in White is one of my favorite products for creating beautiful handmade embellishments and decorative details. It dries naturally without baking and can be painted, sanded, and finished to match any project. I love using it to create custom mold embellishments for furniture, home décor, decoupage, mixed media, and DIY craft projects.
Stamperia Mix Media Art Cream Paste
Stamperia Mixed Media Art Cream Paste is one of my favorite products for adding beautiful texture, dimension, and raised details to craft projects. It's perfect for stenciling, creating decorative effects, and adding unique embellishments to furniture, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects. I also love using it in extremely shallow molds where traditional clay can be difficult to remove without damaging the delicate details. It releases much more easily, making it a wonderful
Texture Paste Opaque Matte
Texture Paste Opaque Matte is one of my favorite products for creating beautiful texture and dimension. It's perfect for stenciling, adding raised designs, and creating unique decorative effects on furniture, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects. Its smooth, opaque matte finish provides excellent coverage and creates a beautiful surface that's ready to paint, antique, or decorate.
Pentart 3D Powder
Pentart 3D Powder is one of my favorite products for creating custom texture pastes and beautiful dimensional effects. Simply mix it with your favorite mediums, paints, or adhesives to create the consistency you need for your project. It's perfect for stenciling, mixed media, decorative painting, furniture, home décor, and decoupage whenever you want to add extra texture and dimension.
Pentart 3D Balls-Large
Pentart 3D Balls are one of my favorite ways to add fun texture and dimension to craft projects. Simply mix them into your favorite mediums or texture pastes to create unique raised surfaces and eye-catching effects. They're perfect for mixed media, decoupage, home décor, and decorative art projects whenever you want to add extra interest and texture.
Crackle Finishes
Create beautiful aged and vintage effects with crackle finishes designed to add character and dimension to your projects. Perfect for furniture makeovers, decoupage, and mixed media creations, these products help you achieve stunning cracked textures and timeless distressed finishes.
Pentart Fineline Crackle Varnish
Pentart Fineline Crackle Varnish is one of my favorite products for creating delicate, realistic crackle effects. This easy-to-use two-step system produces fine, elegant cracks that beautifully enhance painted surfaces, decoupage, canvas, mixed media, and decorative art projects. It's the perfect choice whenever you want to create an authentic vintage finish with beautifully aged detail.
FolkArt Crackle Medium-One Step
FolkArt Crackle Medium One Step makes it easy to create beautiful aged and distressed finishes. Simply apply it over your base color, let it dry, then brush on a contrasting paint color. As the second layer of paint dries, it naturally crackles to reveal the base color underneath, creating a beautiful vintage effect. It's perfect for decorative painting, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects.
Texture Paste Opaque Crackle
Texture Paste Opaque Crackle is one of my favorite products for creating beautiful raised crackle effects with amazing texture and dimension. It's perfect for stenciling, adding decorative details, and creating vintage finishes on home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects. Once dry, I love highlighting the cracks with antiquing medium or wax to bring out every beautiful detail and create an authentic aged finish.
Metallic Wax Rubs
Add shimmer and elegance to your creative projects with Metallic Wax Rubs. Perfect for highlighting raised details, textures, molds, and decorative finishes, these easy-to-use waxes create beautiful metallic accents with just a small amount of product. Use them on furniture, mixed media art, decoupage projects, and home décor pieces to add dimension, depth, and a luxurious finishing touch.
Sizzix Effectz Luster Wax-Silver
Sizzix Effectz Luster Wax in Silver is one of my favorite products for highlighting raised details and adding beautiful metallic accents. Simply apply a small amount with your fingertip, a soft cloth, or a brush to create an elegant silver shimmer on molds, embossed textures, furniture, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects. A little goes a long way, making it easy to add depth, dimension, and a luxurious finishing touch.
Redesign Decor Wax-Eternal
Redesign Decor Wax in Eternal is one of my favorite products for highlighting raised details and adding elegant metallic gold accents. I love using it on molds, furniture, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects to bring out beautiful texture and add depth and dimension. Just a tiny amount creates a stunning finishing touch, so a little goes a long way.
Metallic Wax Rubs-Approx 20 colors available
Metallic Wax Rubs are one of my favorite ways to add beautiful shimmer, depth, and dimension to any project. Available in approximately 20 gorgeous colors, they're perfect for highlighting raised details, molds, textures, and decorative finishes on furniture, home décor, decoupage, and mixed media projects. Simply apply with your fingertip, a soft cloth, or a brush to create beautiful metallic accents that instantly bring your projects to life.
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