Goals 2017
I love this time of year… reflecting on the blessings and even the failures of the past year, making plans for the new year. It is a time of hope and promise and is exciting for me. I always more … Continued
Letter Home
“Letter Home” is mostly collaged papers with just a touch of ink and topped off with a light coat of walnut wood stain. It features a old envelope from the days when 8 cents would mail a letter. The doilies … Continued
Write a Love Song – Art Journal Prompt
If YOU wrote a love song, what would the lyrics be?
ART JOURNAL PROMPT – Design your own Fairy Godmother!
Here is your chance to design your own fairy godmother right there in your art journal! What would you choose for her to be like? Will she be young or old? Beautiful, or just a bit whimsical? Will she have … Continued
Look for the Possibilities… Art Journal style
Another page out of my art journal. This year I have been recording some of my own “truisms”, as designated by the ‘says me’ in the corner. They are an informal look at my philosophy on life and faith, put … Continued
Journal Prompt – Put a Bunny on it!
This week’s journal prompt is inspired by the upcoming observance of Easter. With pastel bunnies everywhere you turn, why not put one on your art journal page? I tend to do a bunny page of some sort every year! Last year most … Continued
National Pi Day – Art Journal Prompt
As a young child, my brother, older by eight years, took it upon himself to teach me pi. I had no real understanding of pi as the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle, but I could rattle off … Continued
Add a Dragon – Journl Prompt
In honor of Chinese New Year today, the art journal prompt is to add a dragon to your page. Can’t draw a dragon? Try using one of these free coloring pages. This one from Activity Village looks very Chinese, and … Continued
Art Journal Prompt – List your Ideas
Sometimes we get stumped about what to put on those blank art journal pages. What to write? If you are like me, I think of, or run across, good ideas all the time…but then when I sit down to work … Continued
Journal Prompt – What’s in Your Bag?
For this challenge, simply take a look at all the interesting things in your bag, or your backpack, or your glove box….. Don’t clean it out first, just let the stray and random items be part of the fun. Either make … Continued