Not everything that is created has to take lots of time because there isn’t always lot of time available in a busy day. I’m sure I am not the only person who wishes there were 48 hours in a day! This was a quick art journal page made while playing around with Cecilia Swatton’s Marbles 6 [...]
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I had a piece of messy playful stencil paper that I had just made that was calling to me. Before you ask, yes, the paper did talk to me. When the paint and paper talk I have learned to listen! I captured how I made this paper and how I used it to [...]
StencilGirl Products and Xyron are playing together with a hop filled to brim with ideas for both stencils and adhesives! While playing around in my art journal with Xyron’s adhesive dots I found Kleenex gave me just the look I wanted. http://youtu.be/-uMdckmIdtk You can watch Xyron Adhesives and Kleenex on YouTube here. [...]
This workshop is currently closed to new students. If you’d like to know when the next mixed media workshop begins, keep an eye out in my newsletter. There will be a special newsletter only discount in there too when the next one launches! You can sign up for the newsletter here. They say that it [...]
This month’s stencil for Stencil Club are so peaceful and relaxing. Jessica did a great job designing them! The spray inks and glitter just called to me as soon as I saw her designs! You can find all the details about Stencil Club here. Now the button to join Stencil Club is right on [...]
Where did my art play take me today? Around the world with Mary Nasser’s Latitude and Longitude stencil for StencilGirl Products. While I stayed in my studio I did end up in a very unexpected place as I played- a land of the monochromatic. Who would have guessed that I would not use the [...]
I like color. I know you are shocked since it is such a well kept secret that I like color….Well today I am playing in the stencil hop with Pam Carriker’s Primary, Secondary, Tertiary color wheel stencil for StencilGirl Products. I started with a tag by gluing on some old writing and [...]
Need a helping hand? How about a round of applause because these hands are handy! Okay, I promise, no more puns…I’m hopping with Jessica Sporn’s new Hands stencil from StencilGirl Products. I had this tag on my counter that has taken all sorts of paint and mess over [...]
Do you know about Art Lessons over at Interweave (the Cloth Paper Scissors people)? Each month there is a new digital download and this month I am very excited to see my name on it. (Confession- excited is an understatement…) This $1.99 digital download is all about stencils (shocker) and modeling paste. You can find [...]
Seth Apter has outdone himself with his stencils for StencilGirl Products! There are so many possibilities in each and every one of them! What I love about it is I can pick and choose the parts that I want for each project I am doing. In the video you’ll notice how many colors [...]

