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.     [...]

    Words have become an important part of my life both personally and as a part of my art.   I chose  words and phrases for this stencil that captured the feelings that are important in my art and my life.  No surprise this one is called Words to Live By.       [...]

  Let the fun begin a bit early for this month’s Colorful Gelli Print Party!  I am making texture plates on leftover cardboard for my playtime on the Gelli Plate this month.     The magic texture maker is Tulip Dimensional Paint. Those butterflies are so consistent thanks to a great Judikins stamp.  As the [...]

    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 [...]

Apparently, I only buy gift wrap for Christmas, baby showers, and weddings.  I needed to wrap a gift and could not find an appropriate wrapping paper so I made some!  This award ribbon, celebrating friendship, was supposed to go on a gift bag…after making this, I just wanted to put into my art journal or [...]

    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 [...]

Nathalie Kalbach has outdone herself with her Elephant March stencil for StencilGirl Products!  I am in love with it for so many reasons.  All the texture in it, all the different patterns hidden in this beauty, and all the fun titles and quotes that go with an elephant!   Not to mention the memories I [...]

I had, notice I said had, a whole drawer full of washi tapes that I hadn’t been using.  I loved them when I bought them but they just sat in the drawer.  Until I started transforming them with color and pattern.  Suddenly they started being used.  That is the seed that led to my latest [...]