Ever get excited when you make a mistake? I mean excited in a good way.  That’s what happened as I made this art journal page.  It took a few OOPSies for me to catch on to what the muse was telling me, but eventually I did as I played with the gel plate goodies Ranger [...]

What is the “right” way to monoprint with a stencil? Do you put the paint on the gel plate first or do you put the stencil on first?  Both ways work wonderfully which means however you want to print with a stencil is the right way! What about the size of the stencil and gel plate?  [...]

Have you seen those letter boards or sign boards with the white plastic letters?  They are a quick way to put a quote on the wall but there is a huge problem.  The letters are all white.  I had to do something about that. There needed to be some color. https://youtu.be/YrOuFQ5XpwI Watch Coloring Plastic Letters for Felt Letter [...]

Decisions can be overwhelming, even paralyzing.  I was trapped trying to make the right decision for how to color these wood letters. All the vowels could be one color and the consonants multi colored.  I could randomly color each letter.  I could use patterns to make different or I could make them all the same. [...]

How do you get those gel prints with little bits of color here and there that give a print the wow factor and do it in one pull?  By color transference which is a fancy way of saying transferring the color from one area to another on the gel plate.  What fancy tool does this?  Recycled cardboard. [...]

  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 [...]

Do you have to know where you are going when you start? Nope. I wanted to capture a feeling on this page in my art journal but had no idea which feeling until I started splattering Pam Carriker’s paint. Then it was crystal clear which emotion belonged on this page. This journal is a giant 150 [...]

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 [...]