“No one thinks like you, talks like you, or makes art like you, and that is an extraordinary thing.” Alena Hennessy just stopped me in my tracks with this sentence from her book, Cultivating Your Creative Life. Every time any of us creates anything it is an extraordinary thing! Yes, every time and every one- [...]
Art Journaling
It has been tough keeping this secret until now…big bite marks on my tongue as I held it when I wanted to share…but now it is ready for the full reveal! My free workshop, Use Your Words, was sparked by the endless creativity I found when creating with an alphabet stencil. Once I had that [...]
Who knew when I started playing I would end up in Outer Mongolia! I’ve been secretly working on a new free workshop, A Colorful Workshop: Use Your Words and the “stuff” from that is all over my counters. So are Gelli Plate papers from the February Gelli party. Okay, confession time, there is stuff all [...]
Two artists may look at the same Spark of Art-spiration, but how it speaks to each individual is unique- and that is the magic of the sparks. What is a Spark of Art-spiration? It is a snippet of a larger work. Something about the snippet sparks my creativity so I go with it. I print [...]
Welcome to the latest Stencil Test Drive! I’m working with Jessica Sporn’s Random Squares stencil. The first time I saw this stencil, I knew I had to have it! So many possibilities! Be sure to stop by and check out what everyone did with this stencil! Diana Trout Seth Apter Corrine Gillman Kristin [...]
A Gelli Plate is just like having your own private paper store. Using old scrapbook papers and dictionary pages with the Gelli Plate I unintentionally created a coordinating set of papers! These papers sparked my art journal page for Artsy Fartsy. Why did I have my Gelli Plate out? Because it is time for another [...]
Nathalie Kalbach is the guest artist for the last Fall Fearless and Fly! Her work is inspiring! I have had an absolute blast co-hosting this with Jessica Sporn! Thank you to every person who has participated from guest artists to artists who linked up to the people who stopped by to taken in all [...]
This week has flown by! Can’t believe this is the last day of the party! Thank you to every party goer for helping me kick off 2013! It is going to be an amazing year full of color and creativity! In all the excitement I had neglected my rubber stamps so I brought them to [...]
Romance was in the air as I made this journal page! You weren’t expecting romance at A Colorful Gelli Print Party were you…well neither was I! I just kept staring and staring at these blues – I do love blues. This is just experimenting around with lines of colors in misc. ribbons and [...]
Welcome to day 2 of A Colorful Gelli Print Party! My family has come to accept the fact that I have abandoned them for the Gelli Plate this week. Truthfully, the teenagers are not too upset to be left alone and I wasn’t really going to do much housework this week anyway… When you [...]
