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The Studio Mercantile The Paper Alchemist's Kit - Volume 1: Pages & Patina
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The Paper Alchemist's Kit - Volume 1: Pages & Patina

$8.00

A gathering of timeworn beauty and quiet texture—layers waiting to be reimagined.

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A gathering of timeworn beauty and quiet texture—layers waiting to be reimagined.

A gathering of timeworn beauty and quiet texture—layers waiting to be reimagined.

The Paper Alchemist’s Library: A Collection in Four Volumes
Spun from gathered fragments, layered textures, and whispered stories, this digital ephemera library is an invitation to create from what was once forgotten. Each volume is a chapter in your own unfolding—filled with vintage papers, ephemeral treasures, and poetic prompts to stir your creative soul. Download them all, or let intuition guide your hand. There’s gold in every page.

Volume I: Pages & Patina
A gathering of timeworn beauty and quiet texture—layers waiting to be reimagined.

Step into the studio of the paper alchemist—a place where aged letters whisper stories and layers bloom into art. The Paper Alchemist’s Library is a collection of four volumes of digital ephemera. Each volume contains 7 different printable collage pages, each designed to ignite your visual storytelling. You’ll find:

  • Vintage Background Papers: Timeworn pages, handwritten documents, and aged textures that feel plucked from forgotten archives.

  • Layered Collage Spreads: Pre-arranged visual compositions you can cut apart or use whole—ideal as journaling prompts or focal points.

Whether you're crafting layered stories in your art journal or building your own collection of creative ephemera, this kit is both a beautiful standalone offering and a natural companion to my Found & Layered workbook.

This digital kit includes a curated collection of layered collage elements to print, cut, and use in your art journal.

Need help with printing or downloading? Visit the Download & Print Tips page for guidance.

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The Paper Alchemist's Kit - Volume III: Cuts & Curiosities
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I’m on a mission to:

Create a space for women like you who are ready to slow down, step back, and give themselves permission to be seen – not as they think they should be, but as they truly are.

You’ve lived a life, full of moments and seasons, and now you may be wondering how to integrate those pieces, how to honor what has been and make room for what is yet to come.

That’s the essence of The Soulful Journey. It isn’t about striving or pushing forward. It’s about allowing.


Allowing yourself to soften into your own becoming.
Allowing your story to reveal itself, layer by layer.
Allowing your creative spirit to lead you, gently, into a deeper relationship with yourself.

Welcome. You’re right on time.

The Train to Varenna

The train pulled away from Milan just as the afternoon light began to soften the city’s hard edges. She sat by the window, fingers wrapped around a small paper cup of espresso gone cold, watching her reflection flicker ove
The Lavender Path

She’d signed up for a month-long artist’s retreat at the edge of a small village, a quiet cluster of shutters and slate roofs perched above the Dordogne. Her room overlooked a garden filled with rosemary, thyme, and sof
Sometimes the most profound shift isn’t something new—
It’s the quiet recognition of what’s always been true.
The breath you didn’t know you were holding,
finally released.
The deep yes beneath your longing.

This week o
The Window on Rue des Martyrs

She arrived in Paris on a drizzly Wednesday, her suitcase wheels clicking over the wet cobblestones like a heartbeat. She had rented a small apartment in Montmartre, just above a florist’s shop where the scent of
Soul Truth: I am being revealed to myself.

Last fall, during a quiet retreat, I wrote this phrase in my journal without fully knowing why.
Not “I’m finding myself” or “I’m becoming someone new.”
But:
I am being re
There comes a moment—quiet and unmistakable—when a woman realizes her story isn't behind her.

It’s unfolding still.
Layer by layer.
Brushstroke by brushstroke.

She begins to see her life not as something to edit or perfect, but as
She almost didn’t open the sketchbook that morning.

There were dishes in the sink, emails in her inbox, and a voice in her head whispering, What’s the point? But something softer stirred too—a quiet tug, a pulse of longing, a tiny
I used to think “becoming” was a forward motion.

Something you moved toward.
An arrival.
A before and after.

But now I think it’s softer than that.

Becoming feels more like circling.
Returning.
Tending.
Letting go and beginning a

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