Do Over! Kids shout it all the time and so can we! This months Let’s Play strategy for rediscovering how to play is all about changing your mind and giving yourself a do over! There is no legal binding contract between us and our art journal pages. We do not need to put an attorney on retainer to change [...]
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Congrats to Judy Hodges who won April’s Let’s Play giveaway! What did she win? $50 gift certificate to BlueMoonScrapbooking! Just send me an email (carolyn at acolorfuljourney dot com) Judy and I’ll get your prize over to you!
Should my art supplies have an expiration date on them? These mistable puffy frames are from 2010…and I still hadn’t used them. Why? Because I liked them too much. What a silly reason! For this week’s Let’s Play video and link party, I’m forcing my inner hoarder to use them! How? With one sentence. Use it [...]
Negotiating with my muse is not a wise thing to do. My muse is not affected by whining, whimpering, or wishing. She was a total task master as I filmed this week’s Let’s Play video. I am so grateful she stood her ground! Use it or lose it is this month’s theme and this week was [...]
The spring cleaning continues as I use my hoarding tendencies as a way to jump start my creativity for this week’s Let’s Play video and link party! I have all these paper badges that I bought to make a couple of travel albums for each of my kids. Some of the trips were a decade [...]
Are they treasured supplies or am I hoarding? No matter what the name of it is, it fills up my studio with stuff. Spring time in the US means spring cleaning for the studio. But how can I get myself to use these precious things I have been saving so long? By freaking out the [...]
The punchinella that I found at the hardware store for this week’s Let’s Play video and link party isn’t officially punchinella but it sure works like it. Punchinella is the leftover part when sequins are manufactured. Usually mylar and shiny. But I actually prefer this drywall tape to official punchinella. Why do I like it better? [...]
The hardware store is full of potential art supplies that can encourage play. In this week’s Let’s Play video, the kindergartner in me came out to play. Which isn’t surprising because in the store, as I walked past the sandpaper, I just had to touch it. That sandpaper got me thinking about chalkboard art…I love the look of [...]
Play: Mission Impossible or Mission Possible? 2016’s Let’s Play is all about sharing how I have learned to play so I chose to accept the mission from the muse! This week’s Let’s Play video, I found an art supply at the hardware store, Mesh Drywall tape. How does the hardware store help me play? There is [...]
22¢. That’s a price I can get excited about! This metal washer was only 22¢ so a handful cost less than a gallon of gas! One of the ways I found to help myself play was to use things from the hardware store. They’re often cheap…like today…I can get as many I could possibly want, and [...]
