Time was on my mind around the start of new year and I wanted to capture that in an art journal page. Start of the new year? It’s March! Well, this video got lost in my files and I just found it again. Better late than never! Little did I know when I started this page, that [...]
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The small stencils and masks are fun to play with but storing them has been a challenge for me, until now! I could hang them all up on little hooks, but I just don’t. It feels too much like cleaning to me so my masks would just sit in a pile on the counter. Then [...]
Once I started looking around my studio for neglected supplies, I found there are plenty of them. The good news is that it gives me plenty of ways to let myself play! For this week’s Let’s Play link party, I’m using Tim Holtz’s Tissue Wrap. How does showing some love to neglected supplies help me play? [...]
What inspires me to make a stencil? It can be anything. In fact, I never know what will spark the muse until it happens. What sparked my latest designs at StencilGirl Products? Dancers! After watching a classical ballet performance, I was struck by all the effort, the hard work, and the commitment that goes in to being a [...]
The colors I use most often of the Dylusions paints have become thicker right in the jar. We can talk about all the possible reasons the water evaporates but the biggest one is I leave the lids off for extended periods of time. I’m working on getting better about it…but if I never get better about it…my life [...]
Have any art supplies that haven’t been used in a while? I definitely do! I’ve bought things, enjoyed them, and then somehow they just end up in the bottom of a drawer for a very long time. But not today! I’m going to use one them, glass floral marbles which have been collecting dust in [...]
While flipping through my art journals to find a page to play with today, I landed on one that was horrifically ugly in my eyes. I could have cringed in horror when I saw the page. I could have ripped it out and thrown it away. I could have hidden the journal and never looked at [...]
Put a Gelli Plate® and a stencil in my hands and I just can’t stop playing! This was supposed to be just one page..or that was my plan..but I didn’t want to stop…so it became 2 pages of play! Today, I’m not the only one playing around, so is Mary Beth Shaw over at StencilGirl [...]
What’s the play for this Tuesday? It’s a grocery bag! I’m using something I would have thrown away as my canvas for a little Gelli Plate® and stencil mask play. Technically this wouldn’t have been thrown away…it would have been recycled the traditional way. The “rules” for the Let’s Play link parties are open to interpretation… [...]
For this week’s Let’s Play link party, I’m upcycling an old picture frame, mixed media style! This frame had no glass in it…no photos…and the backs were missing. Why was I keeping it? No idea but it was either time to get rid of it or add some color to it! So how does [...]
