Stencils and a gel plate are like peanut butter and jelly. They were meant to go together and they bring out the best in each other! https://youtu.be/JmHIRpNb5AY Watch The Rainbow Room & How to Use Stencils on a Gel Plate on YouTube. More ways to use stencils and a gel plate are included in my workshop, [...]
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My husband was so excited about gel printing after editing the welcome/getting started pages of my workshop, Gel Printing FUNdamentals that he WANTED to make a print. And he let me film it! You’ll see him go from being very hesitant to far more confident, in just one print! If he can do it, you can [...]
Why did I not use my usual bright rainbow colors that I had on my palette? It was because of an O.O.P.S., an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly, that happened as I created a full page of pattern in my art journal with just one small stencil. https://youtu.be/66jUIaAlLRA Watch How I use a small stencil to fill an [...]
I had a plan and didn’t follow it from the very first moment. I had intended to just cover up part of a ho-hum layer, but in a flash, the whole thing was covered in gesso. In fact, it seemed that every time I had a plan, I didn’t follow it! https://youtu.be/TLYmCs_IYko Watch Wet paint + [...]
It slices, it dices…well not really, but the Gel Press plate did just about everything for this art journal page! It masked, it stamped, it added the title and of course, made the background. https://youtu.be/f8BWolgkx_U Watch Stamping, stenciling and masking all on a gel plate on YouTube. Using a gel print from my stack of papers [...]
How can you use deli paper in your art journaling? One of the ways is layering it on top of a pattern so that the pattern peeks out! https://youtu.be/6rnzUR8mT3Q Watch Using deli paper in art journal on YouTube. Here’s the pattern created using the Pebbles Layer Me stencil. New to layering stencils? See the video of [...]
A little found poetry did not go as expected on this art journal page. I had high hopes for it since I was using a page out of a Danielle Steele novel. Turns out…I don’t know Jack but I do know how to play and have fun! https://youtu.be/rSOyRzNpfrw Watch Using found poetry in an art [...]
Aquarelles are a watercolor pencil…but I’m not going to use them with water! Check out my video and design team post over on the Faber Castell DesignMemoryCraft.com blog! Here’s an up close photo of the layers of color thanks to the watercolor pencils and Stamper’s Big Brush pens. And yes, I mix the pens [...]
The day had been filled with grown up thinking and decision making and I had become a bit of a stress monster so my family banished me to the art studio to play. I wasn’t up to starting with a blank page so I flipped through my journals and found a stenciled page to begin the process of shaking [...]
Finding images inside free Sparks of Art-spiration is like spotting objects and characters in the clouds. In this one, I saw Bed Head Betsy, a very happy woman waking up excited about the wonders the day holds for her. In the video, you can see how I bring the image out and use it to build an [...]
