I pulled out my paints for some Paint Party Friday fun and the Gelli Plate was in my hands before I knew what I was doing.  If felt so good to let go of control and just play with no pressure.  Trying this paint & that stencil and seeing what was revealed washed away all [...]

Triumph and defeat seem to be best friends in my studio.   Every time one showed up,  the other was just around the corner.  Perhaps what I thought of as defeat is simply being way outside of my comfort zone. The plan was to do the color prompt for Fall Fearless and Fly.  I had [...]

First I had artist’s block.  So I decided I would do a challenge to overcome the block.  Then I couldn’t decide which challenge.  Then I had writer’s block while putting this post together.  A trifecta of indecision!               While enjoying the art at Marjie Kemper’s blog I found out [...]

Pure precision work-that’s what is NOT on this canvas.  There are no scientific formulas here.  But there is fun.   I had my spark of inspiration which took me out of my head and into my art- Dina Wakley’s new paint lids stencil and a canvas.  The circle theme made me happy so I grabbed old [...]

My kids wondered why I was so happy- it was because of the mail.  Not any  mail but the package filled with Tangie Baxter’s new rubber stamps.  I’m a huge fan of her digital goodies at Scrapbookgraphics.com so when I saw she was making stamps I had to buy them.  Here is the first one [...]

“Too many word stamps.  You never use them all,” said my irritable inner critic.  Lately my inner critic has been full of constructive advice said in a gentle tone.  Not tonight.  She was in foul mood.  But I can be a real pain the rear too- just ask my kids!  So I decided to show [...]

Strawberry and lemonade ice cream was the inspiration behind this week’s Summer of Color fun!  Yet again this week I was stumped as to what to do so I turned off my brain and let the colors take me on a journey. About half way through the process I picked up my new stamps from [...]

The colors this week for the Summer of Color threw me for a loop.  I don’t use browns very often so baseball nut colors of  raspberry and brown stumped me. To get moving on it I decided to stop thinking and just do.  I wish I could tell you that I carefully planned out using [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtjch4UT3XY On vacation, my youngest reminded me to be in the moment.  She had grabbed one of my pencils and began drawing in the sand.  The best sand is damp sand however it’s damp because it is near the water.  The ocean has a habit of sending waves of water on the beach.  Kind of [...]