So excited to share with you 3 new stencils I created for StencilGirl! These are big bold patterns with just a hint of wonky. The bold shapes mean wide open spaces allowing for lots of opportunities to make colors play off of each other! In the video, I’m sharing 3 different ways you can use these [...]
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22¢. That’s a price I can get excited about! This metal washer was only 22¢ so a handful cost less than a gallon of gas! One of the ways I found to help myself play was to use things from the hardware store. They’re often cheap…like today…I can get as many I could possibly want, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What neglected supply did I find to play with today? A roll of stiff white lace. Anything that is white in my studio begs to have some color added. But what colors? Darker colors that I rarely use. Why? Using often ignored supplies makes playing exciting because it is almost like the supplies are new again [...]
Ever stumble across an art supply that was made for kids but you just had to try it? That’s what happened to me. Loved these paint sticks when I found them, used them a few times, and then forgot all about them. The embarrassing thing is they were actually on a shelf where I saw [...]
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 [...]
