When I started playing with this wonderful peacock stencil in my art journal, I just let it take me where it wanted to go.  I wasn’t in control – the paint was completely in charge.  So freeing to let go of any expectations, any stress, and just create.  It felt incredibly  meditative – and this [...]

  The craziest thing happened when the mail arrived with Mary Beth Shaw’s newest stencil, Flower Tiles!  I was inspired to play.  That’s not the crazy part.  I was inspired to play with Inktense pencils.  Nope.  That’s not crazy either.  The crazy part?  That I created something very subtle compared to my usual play.   [...]

As a former elementary school teacher, snow days will always hold a special place in my heart.  Snow days meant unexpected artful days in the studio.   We didn’t get the snow today that the weatherman promised, okay, predicted…But I decided to take a snow day for play anyway with icicles on a canvas! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-aPtyGE78 You [...]

  Cue the noisemakers!  Throw the confetti! It’s 2014 and time for January’s Colorful Gelli Print Party!  2013 was an amazing year and 2014 will be even better!  New to the party? You can see all of the Colorful Gelli Print Parties here. I’m playing with the brayer on the Gelli Plate for the Party [...]

A bit of Dylusions spray inks and a stencil, Use Your Words, brought a touch color to my art journal.  In the video, you’ll see how I used the back of the stencil to get these words onto my page.  One of the great things about Dylusions is how it reacts to water and did [...]

  This little  stenciled ornament should be called Oops.  Why?  Because there was one after the other while I was making this using Sue Pelletier’s Loose Dress stencil over at StencilGirl.  This was supposed to be a little purse/bag to give as a gift…then an Oops happened so that wasn’t possible…My carefully thought out plan [...]

When Kiala Givehand invited me to join her hop announcing the Mixed Media Inspiration Deck I was honored.   This is such a fun and creative deck to play with and it even helped me get unstuck in a jiffy!  I only had a few minutes to play and guess what – that is all I needed [...]

  December already?  Time sure does fly when I’m having fun…especially this time of year! This month’s Gelli Plate tutorial  is all about using hot glue and circles.  You can find the round Gelli Plate here.   When I have used found lids in the past they made very thin lines on the Gelli Plate- and [...]

I’d heard about the high flow paint from Golden.  I wondered was it really that different from all my other paints?  I lucked into a sample of it and wow, was I hooked! So ordered a few more colors.   Turns out it is different from my other paints. Why? Because it is like an [...]