I was smitten with a piece of my clean up paper while Gelli Printing®.  It was just where I cleaned off my brayer but I couldn’t stop looking at it.  I had to make an art journal page with it.  It was the perfect place for me to do lots and lots to it!  Lots of color.  Lots of layers.  Lots of writing. LOTS!

My muse however, did not agree with me.  She decided I needed to practice restraint and not load this page up with lots the way I often love to do.  When I tried to do more to the page she just thwarted me at every turn until I finally decided to try it her way.

My muse can be pretty bossy some days (as you’ll see in the video) but she was right.  Doing it her way allowed me to keep all the wonderful colors that I fell in love with on the original print.

Watch Art Journaling with a Bossy Muse on YouTube.

When I arrived many months ago for filming, the crew was pretty sure I was moving in for 6 months.  I had a van load of supplies to create these videos and still had that feeling I had forgotten something.  Good news- didn’t forget a thing!  And they were a wonderful group to work with- each and every one of them! Plus they trusted me with spray ink in a room with white walls.  They are brave brave souls!

During that trip, I filmed 4 videos/DVDs.  Here are previews of each one and little bit about them.

In the collaging DVD or video download, I am sharing what my process is for creating collages.  And you will see how I work with some incredibly ugly layers I’ve created and then make them more colorful.  I even enlist the help of Amy, my wonderful producer who bravely agrees to work blindfolded in this one…

Stencils are a tool to me just like a paint brush is a tool.  How you use that tool can give you different results. In the preview you can see how I finger paint with a stencil.  Of course, with all this wet paint, there is the risk of mud.  In the full video, I share how I avoid my colors all going to that color that scares me the most…mud!

You can purchase the Breaking the Rules, Beyond Stenciling Techniques here.

I love handmade journals but I just have a problem with patience.  My way around that is using a hardback book then adding a wire binding to create junk journals using all sorts of stuff.

I have bought supplies over the years and not used them all up.  But I love them all.   So I look for different ways I can use those same supplies.  This video is full of the ways I combine and mix my materials to get a new look!