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January 2012

My eldest daughter asked me if this old journal was mine & if I wanted it back.  I totally recognized it.  It had been a half birthday gift from my mother.   She’s been gone a long time, but she manages to be a continuing part of our lives. Written on the inside cover was “Recieved [...]

  I was in my head and needed to loosen up today.  Finger painting is now my favorite way to do that!  After it dried I added the circles and foam number stamps and they are wonderfully incomplete stampings.   In the process I learned that I loved the multicolored circles.  Getting painty let my muse [...]

Watercolors can add a subtle background to an art journal page.   This is a very serendipitous way to add a layer to a background.  Here is my purple tag background after stamping with watercolors.  You can see it in a finished journal page here. It started as this: Step 1: Start with a prepped journal [...]