I was Gelli printing® with the Doodle it Dream Landscape stencil and had the idea to use it as a coloring page.  All those wonderful lines in black paint just screamed opportunity to play to me.  You can see how how to make a reverse print with the Gelli Plate® in a video here. But…there was an [...]

What am I sharing for this week’s Let’s Play link party?  Plop, plop, but no fizz fizz, but oh what a relief play is…okay I might be a little slap happy from the play…As I was playing with a little Gelli Plate® and a stencil, I got the most wonderful thrill plopping it right on the paper. In [...]

Ever since I saw Maria McGuire’s Butterfly and Butterfly Duo stencils I wanted to make a book out of them.  Well, I finally did it!  And along the way…made a few Oopsies but one totally pushed me to use a tool in my studio that I try to avoid at all costs!  You can see [...]

It’s Tuesday and that means a new Let’s Play link party for all of us to share what we’ve been creating!  What play have I been up to?  I’ve been making a plan and then not following it.  The plan came about while I was checking out the all the fun stuff shared in last week’s [...]

Is creating always easy for me?  Does it always go well?  Do I always feel happy about what I create?  Is it always easy to say Oops?  Heavens NO!  Here is what happened in my art journal on a particularly challenging day.  Nothing serious or anything, just one of those days when everyday stress collided [...]

I love creating big pieces of color and play.  It’s my happy time when I am  just letting the pattern and color build up.  But what do I do with all those papers?  One thing I do is die cut them. Here’s the paper I made with paints and spray inks and my Connected Eyes [...]

“Can I go over to Christi’s house?”  “Can Maria come over?” As a kid, I was always asking to go to a friends house or to have a friend or two come over. Now I am an adult and I still want to play!  So I am interrupting my grown up day for a little play! [...]

  I am going to gush a bit here.  I am a huge fan of Brené Brown and her message about shame and vulnerability.  I loved her And I Thought it Was Just Me…and The Gifts of Imperfection changed how I saw the world…and Daring Greatly spoke to my soul.  So I wondered what on [...]

I am absolutely addicted to the fineline applicator. Why? Because it lets me write on just about anything in any color I want.  The way the tip is designed, it doesn’t clog which is critical for me because I am not willing to clean.  Not one of these has clogged on me yet.  Beth Figiel [...]