Since I started making artist trading cards, I realized I could repurpose pages I made for zines.

I cut these cards from the background I made for So You Met Your Past Self.

Message me if you're interested in trading. These are also listed on ATCdex.

They're all available to trade! (I'm happy to trade for small art or mini zines, if art cards aren't your thing. I'm based in the U.S. and will send mail anywhere in the world. 🌎)

Please contact me if you're interested in trading.

Hand drawn and hand painted with watercolor, acrylic paint, and ink.

I've made ATCs in the past, so technically these are not my first ones. But they are my first ones in a while. 😃

Earworm series

(See number references below.)

1.  "All I Really Want" by Alanis Morissette

All I really want is a wavelength

2. "Overboard" by Sail North

Treading water, shipwrecked and free
I could leave by all I know is
I'm in too deep

3. "Lore" by Dom Fera

Then you held your phone like a rosary

4. "Karaoke Downtown" by Dom Fera

But please, I'm trying harder now
And the linings on the clouds
Put colors in my eyes
I've never seen

5. “Marked” by Dom Fera

There’s fate and there’s moving like you’re marked

6. “Over” by CHVRCHES

Keep me in the dark
Then fast-forward to the part
With endless nights and neon lights
I'II be beautiful and starry-eyed

Nine pages held together with a fish paperclip (it’s cute!), inside a decorated Altoids tin. Each tin was decorated a little differently, and the stamped fish page varied. But the zine was the same in each tin.

This was a limited edition. I made 6 (and I kept 1 🤭), so 5 copies were available exclusively at Lancaster Zine Fest in 2026.

Details:

• 8 pages (including covers)
• All text is typed
• Printed in full color, double-sided, on white paper
• Finished zine measure 5.5 inches high x 4.25 inches wide
• Folded by hand (French fold)

This zine is organized and produced by Pocket Thoughts. Copies are available on Etsy.

I have contributed pages since 2021 (issue #3). Check out my pages below.

Issue #3

I made this astronaut illustration.

I wanted to go for a collage look, but still where I made each part of it. This is what the elements looked like, before I put the page together.

I started with black cardstock and a white gel pen for the stars in the background.

I drew the astronaut on white cardstock and the cloud thing on black cardstock with a black fineliner and white gel pen. Then I cut those out.

The white strips on the left of the photo are pieces of white cardstock.

I printed the text using my Phomemo printer. It’s so handy for little things like this!

Then I glued everything into place. To send it in for the zine, I scanned it, so I could send a jpg.

Making this page took a while since I created each element separately, but I’m really happy with how it came out.

Issue #4

I continued my astronaut theme from the previous year. Hand-drawn astronaut. Text added in Canva.

Issue #5

I made this collage by hand with scrapbook paper and stock photos. I added the text in Canva.

Issue #6

I drew this illustration by hand and then added text in Canva.

Issue #7

This was a page I made for Spaced Out. I converted it to black and white for Pocket Thoughts Annual.

Issue #8

This is a digital collage I created.

Here’s a rundown of my process for making this page:

1. Searched for images on Unsplash. (See image credits below.)
2. Uploaded the muse image to Canva to convert to black and white and edit the background. Downloaded as png.
3. Opened the edited version in Affinity to add the texture image. Downloaded as png.
4. Went to Pixlr and opened the edited image. Added the glitch filter and adjusted settings. Downloaded as png.
5. 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:

1. 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). Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash
2. Blue, red, and yellow abstract painting (free to use under the Unsplash License). Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

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
• Pages are printed in full color on white paper
• Folded by hand and bound with staples

Issue 2 includes three pieces of bite-sized fiction: “The Flame,” “Rain Check,” and “Downtempo.”

Zine details:

• 8 pages (including covers)
• Finished zine measure 4 inches wide x 5.25 inches high
• Printed in full color on 32 lb white paper
• Folded by hand and bound with staples

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

A digital version is available in my Ko-fi shop (free/pay what you want).

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.)

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
• Printed in full color on 32 lb white paper
• Folded by hand and bound with staples

"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.

Images of each page are below. You can download a printable PDF version in my Ko-fi shop (for free/pay what you want).

I had a zine listed in the Summer 2025 issue, and I was excited to see what other work was included!

This zine celebrates physical media. Pages feature photos of discs and text about how the graphics connect to the TV show or movie.

The zine includes history about developing food for NASA missions. The back side of the zine (when unfolded) shows vintage Tang ads and a list of sources.

If it’s giving Bill Nye episode, that’s my intent. 😉

I made a collage using space imagery for the background of the zine. All text is typed.

See below for photos and full text of the zine.

Astronaut food

What do astronauts eat?

Freeze-dried food was first used in NASA space missions during Project Gemini in the 1960s.

Since freeze-dried foods are shelf- stable, lightweight, and don’t require refrigeration, they’re an excellent choice for taking into space.

Astronauts use on-board water to rehydrate food in its vacuum-sealed package. Then they cut the package open to eat.

Every food package includes some liquid to hold the food together, so small food particles do not float away in zero gravity.

Food quality and options improved during the Apollo missions.

In the 1970s, Skylab, the first U.S. space station, included a galley with a table, trays, and heating elements to warm up food. The station also had a refrigerator for frozen foods, including ice cream. Yes! Regular ice cream is safe to eat in space. Just not on a cone, because crumbs could float away and get into instrumentation or irritate astronauts’ eyes.

An example of a food tray on Skylab

What about freeze-dried ice cream?

Astronauts don’t eat freeze-dried ice cream in space, so why was it made in the first place?

To sell in gift shops!

Freeze-dried ice cream was a way to excite people about space exploration, by giving them a similar food experience to astronauts.

The original and most popular company that makes freeze-dried ice cream is Astronaut Foods.

You can find freeze-dried ice cream treats in museum gift shops, amusement parks, and online.

A piece of freeze-dried Neapolitan ice cream

Did NASA invent Tang?

Tang, a powdered orange drink mix, is usually associated with space missions, but NASA did not invent Tang.

Tang came out in 1957 and was marketed as a breakfast drink full of vitamin C. Since Tang is a powder, it’s shelf-stable, which makes it convenient at home...and also
in space.

Tang was first taken into space in 1962, when John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. After that, Tang became popular as a
space-age drink.

Because of zero gravity in space, astronauts can’t mix Tang and water in a glass. Instead, they have a vacuum-sealed pouch containing the powder. They use a needle to squirt water into the pouch. Then they shake the pouch and insert a straw.

Tang is still popular around the world and comes in additional flavors, including pineapple, mango,
and lemon.

Sources

What Really is Astronaut Food?
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/what-really-astronaut-food

Former NASA Astronaut Explains How Food Is Different in Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E36F4XG5zcY

The History of the Most Polarizing Novelty Treat of All Time
https://www.seriouseats.com/astronaut-ice-cream-history-8687966

Freeze-dried ice cream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-driedicecream

Freeze-Dried Foods Nourish Adventurers and the Imagination
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2020/cg_2.html

Vintage Space Fun Fact: Tang in Space
https://vintagespace.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/vintage-space-fun-fact-tang-in-space/

Tang, the retro orange drink mix that astronauts & Florence Henderson liked
https://clickamericana.com/topics/food-drink/tang-orange-drink-mix

Tang! The space-age drink that’s still a worldwide staple
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/01/world/tang-space-age-scn-wellness/index.html

Illustrations were hand-drawn in black and white, and color elements were added with space-themed washi tape. All text is typed.

Details:

• 12 pages (including covers)
• Finished zine measure 5.5 inches high x 4.5 inches wide
• Printed in full color on white paper
• Folded by hand and bound with staples

Spaced Out is available in a digital format on Ko-fi (free/pay what you want).

Here are some of the pages:

Process

I drew the black and white illustrations by hand. For all the parts in color, I used washi tape to make collage elements.

Here's what that looks like, step by step.

Draw in black and white. Simple black pen on standard printer paper.

Lay a piece of tracing paper over the drawing. With a pencil, outline the area where washi tape will go. For this page, I wanted a curved shape around the planet.

Use washi tape to cover the area outlined in pencil. I kept even lines of tape but you could overlap pieces or rip the tape into smaller pieces.

Flip the tracing paper over. Use scissors to cut along the pencil line.

Glue the washi tape piece onto the drawing.