Create the look of old books with these NEW Vintage Book stencils from StencilGirl® Products! Six videos including 5 tutorials to inspire you and show you how one stencil can be used for various sizes and mediums to create that incredible that Vintage look in your art journals and cards.
Read MoreThis post also includes over 14 ideas and links to stenciling tutorials. Check it out and be inspired!
Read MoreI am happy to introduce three new stencils designed for StencilGirl® Products! These versatile stencil of lines within circles can be used to sculpt the edge of a journal, a background pattern and a retro looking edge. Tutorial on embroidery sewing and another using a pencil and eraser.
Read MoreI am happy to introduce three new stencils designed for StencilGirl® Products! Two of the stencils feature a variety of paint and drawing supplies that fit wonderfully in a journal or on artist trading cards. These techniques can be used with any stencils.
Read MoreGet inspired with NEW stars stencil-masks and video tutorials to make journal pages that are out of this world and sparkling with starry borders.
Read MoreLooking back on 2020 requires bravery. I found myself wanting to bundle up the past year and take it out to the curb like the trash, but when I stopped to ask what good things have come in 2020, I found myself feeling grateful. Here are a few of my favorite things
Read MoreThese NEW planner stencils will help you make your planner, calendar, cards and art special with banners and 2 styles of lettering planner stencils that include a grid to make drawing the calendar squares a breeze!
Read MoreChoosing and living out a Word of the year has been one of my most rewarding personal practices. It gives me a focus and mindset to learn about and grow in. When I combine the word with a journal for the year it gives me a place to focus, explore ideas, pour out my heart, keep a record of the highlights and low points of the year, and helps me know how I am growing. This year has been so strange that as I look over the questions, I expect to approach my word in new ways that will reflect this. I’m also considering ways to help and interact more. Would you answer the following question:
Read More2020, I’m so ready for this year to be over… so I decided to set up my journal for 2021 early. What I love about setting up a new journal in a blank dotted journal is the versatility to include what is important to each person as an individual.
Read MoreThe message of the New Moon, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is compelling and significant during the time we’re living in. It came to me in an unexpected way.
Read MoreI’ve found combining my creative pursuits with nearby family, and home improvement has brought a joyful diversion during the stressful times of the pandemic lockdown and unrest. The new stencils are large 12x24” and so versatile for decorative applications as well as art-making, journaling and wonderful for gel press printing. I hope you enjoy the video tutorials and inspiration!
Read MoreThis is more than a season of change, with huge shifts on every front for most of us. Creating a new website is one of those new shifts for me. I really liked my old website, but needed a simpler, more user-friendly platform. I found that…
Read MoreSometimes our heart knows things ahead of our experience. The calendar and journal pages in this post were made and written in April through the first week of May. With what is going on in the world now, including my home city of Portland, Oregon, the messages and prayers are more relevant than ever. The first of June is also the reveal of the new Stencil Club Mash-up set with Mary Beth Shaw. Here's the stencils and some ideas of what you can do with them...
Read MoreAs I was making my monthly calendar page, I was reminded how each day and how we live it is still important.In our Living Your Word of the Year facebook group, Bernice put out a challenge that seems just right for this month. As usual, I'm adjusting it to my own liking, and am finding comfort in the simplicity and the daily exercise of looking back on the day, and responding with a simple symbol, drawing or words.
Read MoreThe people I've talked with and stories I’m reading on social media are encouraging and empowering. There are also the opposite harsh messages. In art terms, they provide contrast, but also brings sadness. I'm not denying or minimizing the difficulties we are facing in the world, but I believe we have power and what we say actually can create good or ill in the spirit realm. Making Art with meaning is important to me, and art reflects life. Make an acrostic poem with meaning.
Read MoreObviously I planned the Keys to drawing Celtic Knots & Illumination course to be offered as we Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. What I didn’t expect is for it to coincide with the pandemic of the corona virus, limiting our in-person interactions and activities. An online course makes sense and can give some personal interaction around some common ground. If you're like me, it helps the stress level to do something creative and rhythmic with my hands, and the spiritual encouragement helps keep my thinking positive and fosters emotional well-being.
Read MoreOne of the ways to focus on and contemplate my word of the year is through visually designing the word itself. If you aren't interested in doing that, you can always look for a font on your computer and print out your word in the font, adding color, definitions, quotes, symbols etc.Each year I dedicate a page to this in the journal used for everyday things, but you can also post it where you can see it each day.
Read MoreOnly a week into the new year and decade and I was feeling overwhelmed. Not good. Numerous 'opportunities' were coming my way in addition to the already scheduled commitments and events on my calendar. As I wondered what to do, and not do, confusion started swirling in my head. My thoughts were not linear so I decided to do a mind map. This post shows the process I went through and three easy steps to make your own mind map.
Read More
