Welcome! I’m Carolyn Dube – This colorful journey is all about the freedom of play!
Congrats to Ann -the winner of the October Let’s Play $50 gift certificate to Dick Blick! Ann, send me your information (carolyn at acolorfuljourney dot com) and I’ll get you your gift certificate pronto!
What is the theme for November? Just start! Each week I’ll share a new video with you with sharing a specific way I just start playing!
At long last I have photos of my recent workshops at Creative Communion and Art Is You. I am feeling pretty spoiled because of the people I have been able to spend these days playing with! So many amazing women…and a few men too!
If you’re in the Cincinnati area you can join me in person on Nov. 12th for 2 in-person workshops which are the last of the year. Our host is Joan Benoit of Simply Said Stamps for Stamping with PanPastels and The Gesso’d Art Journal. You can find all the details and registration here.
Extreme Gel Printing, hosted by Glenda Miles in the world’s largest class space! And this is just one of the rooms so we had plenty of space to spread out and play play play! What a blast we had-such a enthusiastic and playful group of printers!
Letting Yourself Play at Art is You was loaded with techniques and specific ways to deal with creative paralysis. These fun courageous souls willing left their comfort zones. Such an exciting day as obstacles were turned into opportunities!
There were so many exciting moments in Unlocking the Magic of Gel Plate as prints were pulled off the Gel Press plates! This group of ladies were a riot to spend the day with as dove in and created print after print!
Cause You’ve Got Purse-onality took some plain purses and turned them into wearable art! Thrift store purses had the rainbow added to them. I couldn’t have dreamt of a nicer group of ladies to do this with- thank you for spending your Sunday playing!
Building an art journal page with PanPastels is instant gratification. No pesky waiting for the color dry. But how do I seal PanPastels so they don’t smear and can pass a white glove test? One way is with a gel printing plate!
In the video, you’ll see how I built this steampunk page by combining pieces and parts of several stencils from StencilGirl and then how to quickly seal them!
Watch How to stencil and seal PanPastels in an art journal on YouTube.
I had the rainbow of PanPastels out for me to play with but only orange and magenta called to me today. Never fear the rest of the rainbow…I’ll use you next time!
The steampunk vibe of the Gears and Machinations stencils called for words. Not just any words but words to fit the colorful factory found on the page.
Adding text to my art journal pages lets me customize each and every page. Having a stencil loaded with a variety of words to choose from means I can find just the right words for each page.
I used the 3×5 size of Gel Press Plate but you can use any size you have. This just happened to be the one closest to me at the moment. Why PPA matte by US ArtQuest? Because of how wonderfully matte it is and it is artist grade so it won’t yellow over time.
Are you new to gel printing? You can see another way these mono printing plates can be used in this playful blog post.
Here are the supplies I used. Some of these links are affiliate links which means I get a small percentage. It doesn’t cost you anything extra and you are helping me keep this blog and my videos ad free! Thank you- I don’t like ads any more than you do!
