This 150 year old Grantee ledger was destined to become an art journal the moment I saw it. This is a one of a kind journal and it called for something special. After getting the journal home, a little research enlightened me as to to what it was originally used for. It was for recording the receiver of property, the [...]
Art Journaling
What can you do when you love a background but want to add an image on it? Use an image transfer because it will let some of the background peek through. But some techniques are wildly unpredictable and can be a lot of work. Granted, they look cool, but I prefer an easy no fail way to do it by [...]
What do I do with plain white envelopes before I mail them? I add the rainbow…and stencils! This one in particular went out to Erika, who won the 10 stencil giveaway recently. How did I do it? It’s all in the video, including the OOPSies and the part where I unexpectedly felt a ton of resistance! https://youtu.be/y6cGEFqucK0 [...]
It was the end of the day and I had a ton of paint left on my palette. At this point in the day, thinking was a challenge but I couldn’t waste that paint. So I grabbed a couple of stencils and started making O.O.P.S.ies…Outstanding Opportunities Presenting Suddenly! Things got sketchy in my art journal that is! [...]
This was one of those days where I could feel perfectionism and critical thoughts getting louder and louder in my head. Days like this used to squash my creativity and chase the muse away. But they don’t any more, in part because I call upon my inner teenager to handle it. I wish I could [...]
This stencil solved 2 problems for me. One, how to get a word to perfectly coordinate with any background and my impatience when stenciling words when I want them precisely lined up. ***If you’d like to win this stencil (and 9 others) check out the giveaway*** https://youtu.be/491QN6QOozo Watch This stencil solved 2 problems for me on [...]
I had a quote by Elizabeth Gilbert that I was stenciling into my journal with a pen. I was looking at the words and was so lost in the moment that I lost track of the actual words.OOPS! Silly part is I didn’t notice until after I was coloring it in! Not only is this O.O.P.S., [...]
Rainbows are happy and colorful but they symbolize so much more that just that! They are the hard won reward for making it through a difficult storm. Arting with my Painted Rainbows stencils is one way that I celebrate the journey of making it through those tough times. In the video, you’ll see 2 techniques – how I create the rainbow and how I [...]
What do Sketchy Women with Class have to do with Painted Rainbows? What do Figments of Imagination have to do with Kandinsky’s Garden? They are just some of my new stencil designs just released at StencilGirl! Here’s a look at some of what I’ve been creating with these new designs. It’s my version of a journal flip through…why [...]
What’s a fast way to stencil when you’re working in a large art journal (or any thing else that is big)? A gel plate! Not surprisingly, there was an O.O.P.S., an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly while I played in this vintage journal. https://youtu.be/lHoP3NnvVqc Watch Gel printing in a vintage ledger as an art journal on YouTube. [...]
