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 [...]
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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 [...]
Rubber stamps with stencils bring out the best in each other. Bold lines come from the stencil contrast the fine details of a rubber stamp. Working together they created a quick art journal page. There is lots of inspiration for using stencils with rubber stamps in this blog hop with Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps and StencilGirl [...]
No pens were harmed in the making of this art journal page! Although it was risky to use a regular pen on paint that hadn’t dried completely, my pen made it through the ordeal as I played in my art journal with some new text stencils! In the [...]
http://youtu.be/IdsXHUq-PkM Watch Stretch your stencil by turning it on YouTube. Stretch your stencil with a simple turn. Just a quarter of a turn of a stencil can create unexpected bold patterns. To show you the power of turning the stencil, I used the Trio of Houses stencil. Of course, I can create the expected image of [...]
