I’ve been out of town relaxing with troublemakers, I mean friends.   I have a huge stack of “should do” work after being gone, but I decided to play instead.  Better to take care of my creative soul than my laundry right?  As I was catching up on my internet friends, I found all sorts of [...]

As  a kid I wanted to be an archeologist.  The magic of unearthing history was so enticing to me until I learned about real archeology.  Any time I found a real dig to go on it involved potential snakes (South America), intense heat, bugs galore and sparse accommodations.  I wanted to do archeology in an [...]

A story of friends, two young artists at heart Inspired together, though so far apart Maria just loved to Believe Dream Create A Colorful Journey was Carolyn’s fate They arted their artiness each other week And found that a challenge is what they would seek So then they decided that it would be fun To [...]

First I had artist’s block.  So I decided I would do a challenge to overcome the block.  Then I couldn’t decide which challenge.  Then I had writer’s block while putting this post together.  A trifecta of indecision!               While enjoying the art at Marjie Kemper’s blog I found out [...]

Pure precision work-that’s what is NOT on this canvas.  There are no scientific formulas here.  But there is fun.   I had my spark of inspiration which took me out of my head and into my art- Dina Wakley’s new paint lids stencil and a canvas.  The circle theme made me happy so I grabbed old [...]

My art journaling is off the page and on the canvas this week.  I am excited that I left so much white space here since I rarely seem to do that! Every time I thought about adding something it only detracted from it so that told me it was complete. I’m working with a painfully [...]

It’s week 3 of Dina Wakley’s Out of the Journal Challenge,  Paint Party Friday ,  Art Journal Every Day and Frilly & Funkie’s canvas challenge so I needed to get painting.     Started by gluing down old newspaper that protected the table when I was spray inking something.  Don’t remember what I inked but [...]

My kids wondered why I was so happy- it was because of the mail.  Not any  mail but the package filled with Tangie Baxter’s new rubber stamps.  I’m a huge fan of her digital goodies at Scrapbookgraphics.com so when I saw she was making stamps I had to buy them.  Here is the first one [...]

Dina Wakley’s Out of the Journal challenge has been making my head hurt. It’s not her fault.  It’s me.  Is this a canvas or an art journal page (just not in a journal)?  I’ve pondered (which lead to the head hurting) how I would define art journaling and the answer that is best for me [...]