Ever since I saw Maria McGuire’s Butterfly and Butterfly Duo stencils I wanted to make a book out of them.  Well, I finally did it!  And along the way…made a few Oopsies but one totally pushed me to use a tool in my studio that I try to avoid at all costs!  You can see [...]

What’s my play for this week’s Let’s Play link party?  It was inspired by a little Black Friday shopping when I impulsively bought some ribbon on super sale.  And some clear glitter.  This is the season for glitter! But when using glitter, you need a way to make it stick.  But I am impatient and [...]

The holidays have arrived faster than I realized…and I am running late getting my nephew’s advent calendar together.  The fact that I have zero holiday wrapping paper isn’t a problem because I am going to make my own.  But I needed to get this mailed out yesterday…so I need to get lots of wrapping paper [...]

It’s Tuesday and that means a new Let’s Play link party for all of us to share what we’ve been creating!  What play have I been up to?  I’ve been making a plan and then not following it.  The plan came about while I was checking out the all the fun stuff shared in last week’s [...]

“Can I go over to Christi’s house?”  “Can Maria come over?” As a kid, I was always asking to go to a friends house or to have a friend or two come over. Now I am an adult and I still want to play!  So I am interrupting my grown up day for a little play! [...]

The way a piece of art play starts does not always give me an hint as to where it will go.  As was the case with this piece of cardboard and paint…who knew this would end up being Marie Antoinette on a gameshow? I was playing around with my Arched Aqueduct stencil with absolutely no idea [...]

I am absolutely addicted to the fineline applicator. Why? Because it lets me write on just about anything in any color I want.  The way the tip is designed, it doesn’t clog which is critical for me because I am not willing to clean.  Not one of these has clogged on me yet.  Beth Figiel [...]

I had a great time talking with Heidi Easley for her free online event, Creating From Your Soul.  If you’ve just listened to the interview (and you can watch it here), here’s a link to the free workshop I mentioned.  She asked each artist to share a tip or trick so I showed my way [...]

  Want to print words on a Gelli® print?  If you’ve ever tried it, you might have learned the way I did…with a great big Oops!  Text is reversed on a Gelli print®.  If you’re using a stencil with words that just means flip the stencil over. But what if you want stamped words.  Stamps don’t flip [...]