Would I like to play with Totem Poppets they asked. The name alone sounded fun to me! When the goodies arrived in my mailbox, I realized how customizable these animals are…which means freedom! I can make them whatever I want. Wish these were around when my kids were little, oh the possibilities. Since my kids are [...]
Art Journaling
Whatever inspires me ends up my art journal, one way or another. The Scripps National Spelling Bee, which was last week, is a family tradition here since we are an entire family of proud word nerds. Perhaps that is why the word on the scrap of dictionary paper called to me. And then that word met [...]
This was a total accident, an Oops of the best kind, that led to this discovery! As I ran around the house, shouting Eureka, my family just looked at me like I was a crazy woman….But I know you will understand the glee I felt when I realized thatbthe Color Bloom spray ink was sealing PanPastels in my [...]
This is not a major feat of engineering in my art journal…it can’t be since there was no measuring involved! But it sure is fun to flip those birds back and forth in an interactive art journal page! They’re double sided and I am having a blast flipping the birds from side to side… [...]
My battle for white space continues. I love the look of white space but color is my addiction. This was a knock down drag out fight between color and white space. Round One Goes to Color It isn’t glamorous but it is a place loaded with color to start! This [...]
Although I can’t hop on a plane to travel right now, I can take a trip in my art journal! My muse is my travel agent and she’s booked me to Venice for this trip. Below is the progression of my art journal page as I played with the newly released, Venetian Large 9×12 stencil [...]
Have you ever been drawn to the art or style of an artist and then when you meet them in person it all makes sense…because they are their art? That is what it was like for me meeting Tangie Baxter in person at her Artspiration Studio in Mesa, Arizona. This studio is like a [...]
My muse sends me messages. She doesn’t call. It’s more like a telegram. Just short instructions. I made the choice to follow the art journaling ideas from my muse. But first I had to get out of my head because I was thinking way way way too much. In the video, you’ll even see me [...]
In the process of making a pattern with Thanks A Lotus I backed myself into a corner. But you’ll see that if I back myself into a corner, I can get myself back out. The tragedy was averted (pretty easily too…) as I played with Andrea Matus DeMeng’s incredible stencil for this jumbo blog hop celebrating her designs [...]
Rubber stamps with stencils bring out the best in each other. Bold lines come from the stencil contrast the fine details of a rubber stamp. Working together they created a quick art journal page. There is lots of inspiration for using stencils with rubber stamps in this blog hop with Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps and StencilGirl [...]
