Craft Your Joy Video: DreamCatcher Inspired Card
In this week’s Craft Your Joy video, I create a dreamcatcher inspired card design that is just dreamy. I’m sharing the how to’s and whatzits to create this ethereal looking cards that’s big on fun and is bursting with color.
Craft Your Joy Video: Whimsical Card Design with Foil Mates
In this week’s Craft your Joy video, I’m sharing how I use the negative piece of foil mates as an embellishment to create a peek-a-boo window design. This tutorial took a twist when I realized the card design just wasn’t quite there. I made a move in a new direction and ended up LOVING IT!
Featured Artist: Gina Lee Kim
What I love most about the artist community within all the circles I travel IRL, social and the interwebs, is how giving, kind, patient and honest the community is toward each other. The good, the bad, the ugly, the honesty is refreshing and there is no room for negativity.
ArtyStART Monday: Takin’ on the Gelli’s
Gelli Printing finished lovelies. Yep, it was kind of addictive. I made these in no time flat. It’s a fun product for monoprinting. So… I picked up one of these awhile back. Intrigued by the possibilities of creating patterned backgrounds on the fly, I thought, hmmm…. why not. So, here’s how it all went down. […]
ArtyStart Monday – Watercolor Fleshtones. Gettin’ a little MIXMASTER C.
Color mediums ROCK! So many options, so many scrumptious COLORS! Copic markers alone have 358 color options. WHOOSH! There’s a color for almost everything you can dream to create… I was admiring a fellow artists, amazingsauce Girly FACE this past week on FB: Tracey Malnofski and she commented how she did the entire piece with […]
Let’s Create a Canvas, shall we?
Happy Friday!How about a little CANVAS CREATING! I whipped up this little diddy with the NEW product released this month with Avocado Arts.Designed by yours truly. Ready for some Canvas Creating fun? Gather supplies: Mod Podge or Gel Matte Medium, a canvas, print out the Sunflower Digital Patterned Paper. I find that Gel Matte Medium […]
ArtyStart Tuesday – Image Transfer in the Art Journal
One of my favorite techniques in the art journal is IMAGE TRANSFER. How about a quick tutorial with my NEW Paintables product that launched yesterday with Avocado Arts. Gather up some of your art journaling supplies and let’s have some FUN! Get your Art Journal out and get ready to CREATE! Digital Paintable File, Art […]
ArtyStart Monday – Mermie in the Journal ;)
It’s Monday! It’s Snowing in Maryland! Say wha? Yep, I said SNOW. Crazysauce, I know. So, things are closed because that’s how Maryland rolls. My spring flowers are now covered in SNOW. Jack Frost is definitely messin’ with the Easter Bunny! Ha! So, it’s an ArtyStart Monday! You can read about my new Art Journal […]
