I was running behind schedule. There wasn’t much time.  But there was no way I was going to miss out on the fun of trades at Art Is You.  Trades are a a little something you trade with other people at the retreat. There are no rules for this which allows each and every person [...]

  This was a total accident, an Oops of the best kind, that led to this discovery!  As I ran around the house, shouting Eureka, my family just looked at me like I was a crazy woman….But I know you will understand the glee I felt when I realized thatbthe Color Bloom spray ink was sealing PanPastels in my [...]

I’m a big fan of spray inks and when there is a new one I have to try it out.  I bought some Color Bloom spray inks and started playing.  They sprayed fine. The big handle was easy to use. They had some shimmer.  But there was one way they were far superior to other spray inks I’ve [...]

  This is not a major feat of engineering in my art journal…it can’t be since there was no measuring involved!  But it sure is fun to flip those birds back and forth in an interactive art journal page!  They’re double sided and I am having a blast flipping the birds from side to side… [...]

  There is something I HATE to do, really HATE to do.  Every week I must do this and I spend most of the week dreading it.  What is it? Paying the bills.  I detest writing the checks, abhor stuffing and stamping the envelopes.  Until today.   Thanks to Seth Apter’s newest stencil, Inside Out, [...]

    I had a blank canvas in front of me and I just could not make a decision on how to begin. Paint or spray ink or watercolors?  Stencil or collage or sketch?  Blue or green or purple? The questions just kept coming.  I was completely in my head.  Frozen. Not a decision could [...]

My muse sends me messages.  She doesn’t call.  It’s more like a telegram.  Just short instructions.  I made the choice to follow the art journaling ideas from my muse. But first I had to get out of my head because I was thinking way way way too much.  In the video, you’ll even see me [...]

  Welcome to April’s Colorful Gelli Print Party! The packing tape video by Gelli Arts (here) inspired my play today.  But, alas,  I am patience impaired and did not want to wait for the layers to dry so I played with the tape on the Gelli Plate in a different way.   What did I [...]

In the process of making a pattern with  Thanks A Lotus  I backed myself into a corner. But you’ll see that if I back myself into a corner, I can get myself back out.  The tragedy was averted (pretty easily too…) as I played with Andrea Matus DeMeng’s incredible stencil for this jumbo blog hop celebrating her designs [...]