Last week’s Fearless Art Journaling class was all about transferring images to our journals and our paint cloth. We started with four laser printed images. To transfer, the images must be printed on either a laser printer or a copy machine. We also played with an image printed on an inkjet printer transparency. Our first…
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Image Transfer Frenzy
Fearless Art Journaling Class
I’m teaching my very first art journaling class at our local library. I’ve developed this class from all of my playing in my art journals over the past two years. I know how much fun I’ve had that I just wanted to share it with others. This class is very different from classes I’ve designed…
Read MoreWatercolor Leaf Printing
I’ve been attending a really fun “Water, Paper, Paint” class at our East Branch library taught by a very talented Connie Walts. She has based her class on the book by the same name. I’ve not really explored working with watercolors much lately, so this was a fun way of reintroducing me to the media.…
Read MoreBitten by the felting bug
When I started writing my Telling Your Story column over a year ago for The Evansville Courier & Press about local artists and crafters, I found that I wanted to try some of the crafts I’ve never attempted. One of those was felting. I swore – I will NOT try felting. However, I found myself…
Read MoreBalzer Stencils: Herringbone and Wonky Circles
I mentioned before our trip that I received several of Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s new stencils from The Crafter’s Workshop. Here is how I used the Summer stencil. Here are a couple more of the stencils and what I did with them. The first up is Herringbone. What’s neat about stencils is you don’t have to…
Read MoreBook Review: Cloth Paper Scissors Book
I was introduced to the Cloth Paper Scissors magazine from Cathy Smay, one of the first artists I interviewed for my “Telling Your Story” newspaper column. After subscribing and reading a couple of issues, I ordered a couple years of past issues. I often refer to them for inspiration. When I heard that Interweave was…
Read MoreAugust Art Journal
I again embarked last month on an art journal every day. I usually try to work on some type of art – whether it’s working on paper or cloth every day, but I love the discipline of a page a day in my art journal. Because I am a journal writer and want to make…
Read MoreSummer Stencil
Recently I received some of the Crafter’s Workshop stencils. Fun! Most of these were Balzer Designs. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is one of my favorite artists. I first saw her on Quilting Arts TV last season. I immediately loved her designs and her whole attitude about creating art. She has really inspired me in my journey…
Read MoreTP Art
This craft has been around for a long time. I first saw Carol Duvall demonstrate this years and years ago on her show and I thought it was so neat. In her book, “Paper Crafting with Carol Duvall” she called it molded tissue! It’s cheap and easy. Here is one of them on my art…
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