Last night I carved up a new stamp: I designed it so that it could be printed in a repeating pattern two different ways: I'm totally loving the way it turned out! In honor of Halloween I thought I'd make a little Halloween tag using this new stamp: I'm looking forward to carving many more of these repeating pattern stamps! Thanks for stopping by! Read more →

If you're new to Art Journal Every Day, all the posts can be found here. Please read this post first. There is a flickr group for sharing right here. Remember, it's just ten minutes of nourishing your creative self every day! No need to finish anything or even like it. Just play! Linky list for October is right here. I'll post the list for November on November 1. Where has this year gone? Can you believe that October is almost over?! Eeek! November and December can be challenging months to art journal every day in with all the holiday hullabaloo.... Read more →

I'm delighted to be participating in another Sizzix Blog Hop featuring dies designed by Eileen Hull. To see all the projects in the hop, simply click the "hop forward" link on the logo below: Today's hop features the Sizzix Bigz Die - Flowers, 3-D #2: You can use this die to create these cool three-dimensional flowers: (image from the Sizzix website) But you can also use this die to create a collection of cool foam stamps! Simply die cut a piece of craft foam and glue it to a thicker piece of craft foam and you have a fun stamp!... Read more →

My husband and I recently celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. When I looked up the traditional gift for a fifth wedding anniversary I discovered that it's wood. What a lucky coincidence that I was reading one of my favorite blogs and saw a piece of art for sale that is made from wood! It's a beautiful piece of art from Tammy Smith (her etsy shop, her blog), whose gritty style I just adore! And it's huge! Almost three feet tall and even better in person than in the photos above (both are photos Tammy took of the piece). Here's what... Read more →

WARNING: There are drawings and paintings of female nudity in this post. Please do not read any further if this is an issue for you. Thank you. I thought I would share some more photos from my adventures at The Art Students League: The left side of the painting felt empty, so I sketched in a profile of the other model. I liked it, so I added some paint. And here begins the 'battle of the nose" -- just can't seem to get it to work. Sigh. And at the beginning of week four, we got two new models. This... Read more →

On Friday I flew to San Antonio, TX. We changed gates several times, so I got a really good look at JFK. On Saturday I drove the three-and-a-half hours to Houston, TX, taught a card class (got in trouble for swearing)... ...and ran some make-and-takes that evening. On Sunday I demoed stencil techniques from 10am-5pm... ...and then drove back to San Antonio, TX. On Monday I taught a fabric collage quilt class at Crafty Girls Workshop in San Antonio. There were lots of dirty hands. On Tuesday I flew home to New York City and taught Art Journaling Club at... Read more →

The winner of the Clouds Stencil in 6x6 and 12x12 is... And the winner of the Rain Stencil in 6x6 and 12x12 is... Congratulations, ladies! Send me your mailing address and I'll get those stencils out to you! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Read more →

If you're new to Art Journal Every Day, all the posts can be found here. Please read this post first. There is a flickr group for sharing right here. Remember, it's just ten minutes of nourishing your creative self every day! No need to finish anything or even like it. Just play! Linky list for October is right here. One of the first things that I did when I got the prototypes of the stencils I designed for The Crafter's Workshop was to test drive them by creating tons of gorgeous collage papers! Not only did this give me a... Read more →

I wanted to share my second guest layout for the sketch and journaling challenge site Once Upon a Sketch. (Find the first one here.) Sketch: Journaling Instructions: A most embarrassing/awkward/uncomfortable moment. Journal at least 2 sentences on a moment that you will remember for all the wrong reasons. Examples: something you said/did, something your child said, something your pet did etc. My interpretation: I really love the separated photos on this layout. I tend to clump my photos all together and so I'm digging this. You can see that I used orange to unite the two halves (strip, asterik, title).... Read more →

By far the most frequently asked question about my new online class 30 Days in Your Journal is, "What supplies do I need?" I haven't released a full supply list for a couple of reasons: One of the focuses of the class is on using what you already have. That's why every single lesson comes with a guide to possible supply substitutions. We are using an enormous range of products. I would hate to have you go out and buy a product, then see it demonstrated in class, and not even like the way it works! My intention is for... Read more →