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I am always amazed by how art journaling connects me to my feelings.  Cleaning out part of my studio led me to finding the pink graffiti paper I made long ago.   All the bright colors and foam stamps and drips and splats felt right to me so I quit cleaning and made this…at least [...]

I’ve been busy playing with the Gelli Plate! I have 2 more videos that went live today! Check out iCreateFlix’s blog to see video of how I made the paper above and a tag (that is one of my favorites of all time).   Then stop over to StencilGirl Talk to check out the video [...]

  You have no idea how surprised the woman was next to me when I found Velcro dots in WalMart.  I did get a bit excited about it… maybe I shouldn’t have made so much noise…Then I found some round silicon feet in a junk store.  More excitement that only Gelli platers can fully understand. [...]

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Welcome to the StencilGirl blog hop!  The star of our hop is Andrew Borloz’s Crossed Rounds and Squares stencil at StencilGirl Products!  Want to win his stencil?  The details are at the end of this post! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvflEFDJKVE&feature=youtu.be You can watch the video on YouTube here.     Andrew’s stencil repeats extremely well so it can make [...]

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Getting started is the toughest part for me many days. Where do I start?  What do I make?  What colors do I use?  These are just questions from a cranky inner critic designed to keep me from getting to my creative side.   So, I decided I was going to shut that critic up by [...]

Welcome to July’s Colorful Gelli Print Party!  At long last it is getting hot here, just like summer should.  In honor of that beautiful ball of golden happiness I’m playing with hot colors making a page full of my own little Suns!     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIeag3hWj-k&feature=c4-overview&list=UUdXS_Br77vmmJTlHQFL0rNQ You can watch the video on YouTube here. You can [...]

Happy play with my Gelli Plate and Stencil Girl stencils today!  Jessica Sporn’s Jump for Joy stencil made me so happy as I experimented on envelopes from a huge stash I found buried in a cabinet recently. You  know when there is a test drive there are going to others playing too!  Stop on by [...]

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  Artsy Fartsy is back!  Maria McGuire and I took a break for a while due to scheduling and commitments but we’re playing again. Neither one of us has any less to do now (maybe even more)…She has taken on a wonderful new adventure that will be revealed soon and I am working on new [...]

Seth Apter over at The Altered Page is hosting his annual hunt for buried treasure – in your old posts.  I looked back and found this!  Check out his site- so many great places to unearth creative treasure! Excavating Paint Posted on July 10, 2011 by Carolyn Alcohol dissolves paint.  When I heard that I [...]

  I’m playing with the Dots and Dashes stencil today and so are some other great creatives. Stop on by and check them all out!      Maria McGuire Seth Apter  Stop by Jessica’s for a giveaway! I was cleaning out a cabinet, yes, I do clean sometimes but am easily distracted by things like [...]