Inner Excavation...

Happy Saturday everyone!  Have you ever heard of the Book "Inner Excavation," by Liz Lamoreaux?  Effy Wild posted about it and so I checked it out, and it's AWESOME!  I can't believe I hadn't heard of it before, cuz it's right up my alley!  Here's the cover: The cool thing is that Liz hosted a free seven-week read along of the book last year, and now...

Goddess Maeve and the Raven...

Hey there everyone!  I've been having loads of fun studying the stories of the goddesses in Moonshine!  Our Goddess of the month in May was Maeve, and I finally finished my painting of her!  I'm so excited to show it to you!Maeve was a goddess known for her intoxicating sensual beauty, so I was going for a "come hither" look - ha...She's  9" x 12" on a...

Welcome Summer and thoughts on Balance...

Hey there everyone!  Happy Sunday!  I completed an art journal spread yesterday to celebrate summer solstice (which was on Friday).  Here's how it turned out...While I played with my paints and papers, I gave a lot of thought to my word for the year:BALANCEI am really loving the balance in my life right now; although I must admit it's nothing like I thought...

The Marriage of Glue-it Tuesday and Summer of Color...

Hi everyone!  I haven't done "Glue-it Tuesday" in a few weeks, so I thought I would get busy and have some fun with my glue stick!  This week, I decided to marry it with the pink and orange color scheme for this week's Summer of Color challenge, so here's what I came up with...I already had an orange painted background in my journal, so I just grabbed some pink and...

Jump for Joy! Stencil Test Drive...

Hey there everybody!  I'm behind the wheel for another Stencil Test Drive for my friend Jessica Sporn! This time I've been playing with Jessica's Jump for Joy stencil, which looks like this... How fun are these images?!!!  Perfect for art journaling! I used the Jump for Joy stencil to create this page in my Road Atlas journal. It was so simple to do...I...

How Could I Resist Something Called "Summer of Color...?"

Hey friends - have you heard about Summer of Color?  It's a six-week long blog party put on by Kristin of Twinkle Twinkle.  Every Monday starting on June 3rd, she is putting up a color prompt, and you can play along by making anything you want in that color scheme!  How fun is that???!!! Anyhoo, the first week's colors are Citron Green and Turquoise. ...

More Road Atlas Journaling, and the new Project Life kits...

Hi everyone!  I'm still having fun with my jumbo road atlas journal!  A few of you have asked me how I prepare the pages in this book for journaling.  I just take a few simple steps...I just take a few simple steps for preparing a book for journaling...1.  I went through the whole book, and tore out every third page.  This will make it so the binding...

Evolution of a Page...

I tried a whole new way of painting this week as part of my "Radical Wellness" class, called "painting loose and free."  The idea is to alleviate stress by painting loosely, and not worrying about getting every little detail accurate (hence the name loose and free - lol).  Just layering paint until you feel like you are done.  I had so much fun!  I took...

Atlas Turned Art Journal - Yippee...!!!

Hi there friends!  I'm so excited cuz I scored this awesome vintage Atlas on ebay for only $14.99!  It's in great shape and it's HUGE!  A whopping 11" x 16" (or 22 x 16" when open!)  Isn't she a beauty??? I turned her into my June art journal, and I'm having so much fun with it!   Here are my first two completed spreads...  On this...