Carolyn Hassard

This month my you tube channel passed 16K subscribers. The Facebook group "Learn Gelli Plate Printing" is at 100k this month. I started it about two years ago. What transpired was not intended. I never set out to start a youtube channel. It happened incidentally, and I was completly unprepared for its success. Statistically, both the faceook group and youtube channel are outliers. AI tells me 4% of Facebook groups hit 10k members and less than 1% hit 100k. Only 3% of Youtube channels hit 10k...

Thinking of making youtubes? Just do it. I still cannot believe how easy its been. In February 2025 a video I put up about making Four Layer Gelli Prints went haywire and the tail has been wagging the dog ever since. About a year before that post, I had started a Facebook group about gelli printing called "Learn Gelli Plate Printing". My intention was to learn to gelli print; to find people like me who were having fun with it and trying to figure it out. I made the name something I would...

I am absolutely passionate about 'Art Journaling'. Art Journals can take many different forms and have many different purposes. They can be practice and development 'spaces' for artists. They can be memory or scrap books for anyone who likes to document life experiences. They can be junk journals for collectors or craftspeople. They can be travel journals, quotation journals, reading journals - you name it. Art journaling is an engaging art activity that supports feelings of well being and...