Fact: Cloth Paper Scissors makes super cool e-mags. Question: What is an e-mag? Answer: It's an electronic magazine. Electronic magazines come in many forms. Some are .pdfs. Some use special software. Some are an exact replica of a paper magazine. Today I want to talk about a new e-mag called "Art Journaling Exposed." Question: What makes this e-mag super duper cool? Answer: I'm so glad that you asked! Here are just a few things that make "Art Journaling Exposed" awesomely terrific: I'm in it! :) There is no paper version of this e-mag. It is purely electronic only! You can... 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. If you've done some art journaling this week and you've blogged about it, or put it on flickr, please leave a link in the linky list at the end of this post. Thanks! First of all, I want to thank you for all of the amazing comments on last week's... Read more →

Welcome to day four, the final day, of Soup Week! We are celebrating the TV show Scrapbook Soup! I host Scrapbook Soup with long time Scrapbook Memories TV host, Julie McGuffee. The show airs on PBS (you can check the listings for your area here). And now there's great news for those of you who live abroad or don't get it in your area: You can watch Scrapbook Soup TV online!! Currently you can watch a full episode each Saturday on the Scrapbook Soup website. And due to popular demand, starting on April 6, we will air a new full... Read more →

Welcome to day three of Soup Week! We are celebrating the TV show Scrapbook Soup! I host Scrapbook Soup with long time Scrapbook Memories TV host, Julie McGuffee. The show airs on PBS (you can check the listings for your area here). And now there's great news for those of you who live abroad or don't get it in your area: You can watch Scrapbook Soup TV online!! Currently you can watch a full episode each Saturday on the Scrapbook Soup website. And due to popular demand, starting on April 6, we will air a new full episode on the... Read more →

Welcome to day two of Soup Week! We are celebrating the TV show Scrapbook Soup! I host Scrapbook Soup with long time Scrapbook Memories TV host, Julie McGuffee. The show airs on PBS (you can check the listings for your area here). And now there's great news for those of you who live abroad or don't get it in your area: You can watch Scrapbook Soup TV online!! Currently you can watch a full episode each Saturday on the Scrapbook Soup website. And due to popular demand, starting on April 6, we will air a new full episode on the... Read more →

Welcome to Soup Week! What the heck is Soup Week? Well it's not about the kind of soup you eat, rather we'll be celebrating the TV show Scrapbook Soup! I host Scrapbook Soup with long time Scrapbook Memories TV host, Julie McGuffee. It's the Julie-Julie show! Here is a photo of us on set: My Mother says that I wear too much makeup on the show and look like I'm 100 years old. She's been harrassing me about it for months. We tape the upcoming season next month and I am definitely going to ask the makeup lady for less... 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. If you've done some art journaling this week and you've blogged about it, or put it on flickr, please leave a link in the linky list at the end of this post. Thanks! I get a lot of e-mails and questions about getting started with art journaling. So I thought... Read more →

Today I want to talk to you about my sweet, talented, energetic, and generous friend Ronda Palazzari. Here are just a few of the beautiful projects from her blog: Ronda and her family live outside of Denver, Colorado. And as you might be able to guess from the photo above, Ronda has just written a book called "Art of Layers." Here is F&W media’s description of the book: “Basic scrapbooking has you place photos and embellishments on cardstock or patterned paper - easy and...well, basic. The next step for most scrapbookers is layering. But trying to get that rich, interesting... Read more →

I'm currently taking a class at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) called "Experimental Printmaking." It's taught by a mixed media artist named Katerina Lanfranco. It's an eight-week class and each Monday we meet to make art and spend time in the galleries. We are four weeks into class and I thought I'd share some thoughts about the experience. 1. This class hits all the marks. I love taking classes. Being a student is one of life's great luxuries. And I try to take advantage of it by taking classes all the time -- some in-person and some online, but... Read more →

Alisa Burke recently posted about how much creativity you can find in a box of crayons. I admire how she always does totally amazing things with really simple supplies. Inspired by her post I sat down to play a little bit with one of my favorite techniques: crayon resist (one of the thirty techniques in my Technique-a-Palooza: paint & ink online class & used on fabric in my It's Sew Easy online class). I started with a white crayon and a sheet of white watercolor paper. I scribbled across the page with the white crayon and then started to apply... Read more →