Do you have to know where you are going when you start? Nope. I wanted to capture a feeling on this page in my art journal but had no idea which feeling until I started splattering Pam Carriker’s paint. Then it was crystal clear which emotion belonged on this page. This journal is a giant 150 [...]
Carolyn Dube’s Stencils
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 [...]
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 happens when I actually use some of my stash of washi tape? Wild things thanks to a little stencil fun inspired by Mary Beth Shaw. Stencils are tools that can be used more than one way with washi tape and you can see how in the video plus how using tissue paper makes stenciling words [...]
You can put just about anything on an Impressable gel plate…including modeling paste! The texture these two create together is magnificent…can you tell that I love texture? What can you do with this flexible piece of colorful texture? I used it create a golden jeweled canvas. https://youtu.be/5boB4wdqJIk Watch Modeling Paste on an Impressable Gel Plate on YouTube. [...]
They are making clothes for the Elf on the Shelf, but they aren’t the colors or style I wanted, so I decided I could make her skirt. How hard could this be? A little gel printing, a simple running stitch, and a bunch of glue. Let’s just say I don’t think I’ll be on Project [...]
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 [...]
