Ever have a day where you don’t want to think? When every decision feels hard?That was today for me. I just wanted to play in my art journal with zero pressure to make decisions. No hunting for things, no looking for the “right” something. Just play. So that meant using whatever was within arms reach. I [...]
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What can you do when the inner supply hoarder flares up? Force yourself to use something sacred. I forced myself to “use up” my washi tape. And by use up I mean use just a little of it. Using the super special Van Gogh washi tape really freaked out that supply hoarder in me. Could there [...]
What do you do when you have a plan but you’re distracted in the middle by your muse? Follow her lead! I had planned to gel print an art journal page but the clean up prints were so scrumptious I had to ditch the journal. Instead, it was watercolor pencil play on the clean up prints, which were [...]
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. [...]
My muse has a twisted sense of humor and she likes to make certain points to me. I have had a lot of monkeys on my back, more accurately in my head, that have been getting in my way. As I was searching for something that should have been easy to find on my computer, I [...]
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 [...]
