Have you seen the incredible ways to wrap gifts on Pinterest? The kind that take hours to wrap and the gift looks like a piece of holiday decor, not something you rip open? This video isn’t like that, after all, I’m giving a gift card. But I want it to be fun, have a personal [...]
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They are making clothes for the Elf on the Shelf, but they aren’t the colors or style I wanted, so I decided I could make her skirt. How hard could this be? A little gel printing, a simple running stitch, and a bunch of glue. Let’s just say I don’t think I’ll be on Project [...]
Art supply guilt can be a good thing. Really! I bought all different types of oil pastels over the years. I used them a wee bit. Since then, these have just been sitting ignored on the shelf and taking up space. Today the oil pastels were radiating waves of guilt because I hadn’t used them in so long. I [...]
What do I do with plain white envelopes before I mail them? I add the rainbow…and stencils! This one in particular went out to Erika, who won the 10 stencil giveaway recently. How did I do it? It’s all in the video, including the OOPSies and the part where I unexpectedly felt a ton of resistance! https://youtu.be/y6cGEFqucK0 [...]
What happens when I go to IKEA? I find textures for gel printing! Just about anything can create patterns or textures on a Gel Press plate so that means there were loads of possibilities. One of the treasures I found was the $2 bamboo placemat. https://youtu.be/JSbV8WyydQk Watch Gel printing with an IKEA placemat on YouTube. Want to [...]
It was the end of the day and I had a ton of paint left on my palette. At this point in the day, thinking was a challenge but I couldn’t waste that paint. So I grabbed a couple of stencils and started making O.O.P.S.ies…Outstanding Opportunities Presenting Suddenly! Things got sketchy in my art journal that is! [...]
This was one of those days where I could feel perfectionism and critical thoughts getting louder and louder in my head. Days like this used to squash my creativity and chase the muse away. But they don’t any more, in part because I call upon my inner teenager to handle it. I wish I could [...]
This stencil solved 2 problems for me. One, how to get a word to perfectly coordinate with any background and my impatience when stenciling words when I want them precisely lined up. ***If you’d like to win this stencil (and 9 others) check out the giveaway*** https://youtu.be/491QN6QOozo Watch This stencil solved 2 problems for me on [...]
These colorful creatures emerged from my rainbow play. It might look like I thought a lot about the pattern and the color, but I didn’t. I had a bit of help, thanks to using both the stencil and mask. How did that make it easy? Check out the video! ***If you’d like to win this stencil (and [...]
I had a quote by Elizabeth Gilbert that I was stenciling into my journal with a pen. I was looking at the words and was so lost in the moment that I lost track of the actual words.OOPS! Silly part is I didn’t notice until after I was coloring it in! Not only is this O.O.P.S., [...]
