I really love this girl stencil by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. I think it is the flowing hair that I’ve fallen in love with…and I love that she got me using so many odds and ends! The background was made while coloring ribbons and die cuts with spray inks. I hate to waste beautiful inks so [...]
Art Journaling
I have been purging stuff from my home to make room for my life. It is freeing! I found the box of audio cassettes (it’s an ancient form of recording for those young people) that had recordings of family members. Relatives that are no longer with us. Children who are way too old to be [...]
Recipe for an art tag: Layer cheap craft paints & gesso. Top with a Crafter’s Workshop stencil and Color Wash spray ink. Layer typed words, number, and mini notebook paper on top. Use a butterfly die cut to cut a piece of text. Add gesso for strength & Brillance ink for color. Write on the [...]
Just a reminder – if you’d like to win a spot at 21 Secrets be sure to leave a comment here! It’s a prize worth $59.00! Got around to playing with my marbling kit – it was simple and easy! My kids and I had a blast putting drops of ink into a pan of [...]
Start with a page out of an old book. Die cut some shapes from cheap notebook paper. I used Tim Holtz’s tag with the book plates. Love those! I found really cheap notebooks at Staples this week – 1 cent a notebook! It was darn close to free! Back to the art…I die cut more [...]
I had such fun creating this page! There wasn’t a plan – just play. I’ll share what cool trick I learned while doing it tomorrow!
I was having the kind of day where I needed to be reminded to have faith. I used the paper I made from homework. You can see it here. I don’t think it is finished yet, but it is as finished as it will be for now.
I admire artists who have a vision of their art before they start and then bring it to life. I, do things a bit differently. I often have no idea where something will go or when. This page I started so very long ago. I had the blue, then added the scrap from a heart [...]
I had an odd sized scrap of paper that I just couldn’t throw away – so I glued it to an old art journal page that just never went anywhere. I had the dress on the page from who knows when. Suddenly, this scrap brought it to life for me. My tutorial on making [...]
The Summer of Color focused on orange this week and now orange is one of my good friends. I hadn’t spent much time with this friend for a very long while so I guess I am making up for it now…Creative Every Day has the theme of red for August and I just knew I [...]