One of my favorite ways to start a journal page is by using the leftovers from another journal page.  The 14×17 page below was used to protect my counter while spray inking pieces of paper.  There are a few stamps that were cleaned off too.  I rubbed a few colored pencil stix (basically a colored [...]

I’m still riding the high of being published!   Granted, it is a short video, but it is still my video.  I wanted to capture the good feelings in my journal so I started creating with one of the many backgrounds I made while filming the video segment over and over.  I have such respect for [...]

  The latest Collage in Color is here and I am excited!  Why?  Because I have  a video in it!  This was my first time doing a video with step outs- where you have parts already finished and can quickly go from step to step.  It took more than one time through to get the [...]

Seth Apter over at The Altered Page is hosting his annual hunt for buried treasure – in your old posts.  I looked back and found this book I still love. Check out his site- so many great places to unearth creative treasure! Junk Journals Once I started these journals I’m excited to see junk mail [...]

“Polite ladies use their napkins,” said my mother when I was a little girl.  I listened.  I remembered.  So when this perfect patterned napkin came into my hands I knew I had to use it.  The colors in the napkin inspired this page.   A background made with gesso and spray ink and paint a [...]

Strawberry and lemonade ice cream was the inspiration behind this week’s Summer of Color fun!  Yet again this week I was stumped as to what to do so I turned off my brain and let the colors take me on a journey. About half way through the process I picked up my new stamps from [...]

I looked at my girls today and realized that they are growing up and I like who they are becoming.  They are growing up right and right now. A background made of paint &   a scrap of inked map glued on long ago.  This was a forgotten background until I was sparked today to use [...]

The colors this week for the Summer of Color threw me for a loop.  I don’t use browns very often so baseball nut colors of  raspberry and brown stumped me. To get moving on it I decided to stop thinking and just do.  I wish I could tell you that I carefully planned out using [...]

The little person, looking all befuddled to me, jumped out at me when I was flipping through my journal looking for a spark to start a page.   I am usually a type A kind of person (which serves me well in many many areas of my life), but in my art I find my type [...]