My kids wondered why I was so happy- it was because of the mail.  Not any  mail but the package filled with Tangie Baxter’s new rubber stamps.  I’m a huge fan of her digital goodies at Scrapbookgraphics.com so when I saw she was making stamps I had to buy them.  Here is the first one [...]

Dina Wakley’s Out of the Journal challenge has been making my head hurt. It’s not her fault.  It’s me.  Is this a canvas or an art journal page (just not in a journal)?  I’ve pondered (which lead to the head hurting) how I would define art journaling and the answer that is best for me [...]

I was blessed to be able to go to Dina Wakley’s weekend class at Donna Downey’s studio a while ago.   I was blown away by what it offered me- a sense of home.  Not my home but Donna’s home.  We were in her studio and it was Southern hospitality at its finest!  I made quite [...]

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 [...]