Why did I buy this paper?  Did I ever love it?  I will now!  Add a little spray paint stenciling. Add brown spray inks.  When I wiped the ink off the spray painted area, the white popped & the old pattern got a new life.

Do you have any old scrapbooking papers that you may not love anymore or that you never did but they were part of a larger collection of papers?   Well I do, actually quite a few. My style has changed over 10 years – no shock.  I decided to experiment with them.  Since I might never [...]

If you haven’t done 21 secrets yet – you should!  It is a huge value and they’ve extended it this year!  Dirty Footprints Studio is the place to find out all about it.  In celebration of all her big news she’s challenging us to all come clean with our art journaling secrets! My big secret [...]

Do you ever have those great scraps that you love but aren’t sure what to do with them?  This page was my scrap challenge.  The circles were left overs from die cutting.  The yellow wonky rectangles were from a strip of leftover paper.  This page took 2 months to create – it was my catch [...]

I love digital art journaling as much as traditional inky/painty hands art journaling.  Tangie Baxter has this great new kit, Steampunk Maritime, that is packed with such goodness!  I love the ocean & steampunk so this was perfect!  I usually do digital steampunk just because I don’t have a strong desire to do metal working, [...]

I am totally addicted to this guy from spraypaintstencils.com.   A quick and sloppy border of my favorite color  and it was starting to talk to me. I looked for words to create the story and sure enough, they were there.  I used a black pen and glossy accents to make the words pop.  Then I [...]

I was just playing around with stencils.  No plan.  Just playing.  Actually avoiding what I “should” have been doing…I tend to grab book pages for playing.  I was using Deco Art’s carbon black traditions paint when I noticed how matte it was when it was dry. The photo does not do it justice. What if [...]

Last night was the most magical night of art journaling I have ever experienced!  Both of my kids made art journals and got inky with me.  I taught them a few things but they taught me more!  They experimented without any hesitation.  None.  Ideas came from everywhere. Emma found inspiration in the names of the [...]

I made a background with alcohol inks and blending solution.  The only problem was I really didn’t like it much.  Not sure why I didn’t like it, but I didn’t.  Once I added a few words, it became my favorite page in a long, long time!  I have been wanting to journal about Inspired but [...]