The retreat

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Michelle

We hd such a fabulous time at the Back to Back Retreat. Just a few images from the 3 day event

Hope you can join us next year at the next retreat.

A huge delivery

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Michelle

Getting deliveries for the Back to Bacr retreat and all this has to be entered into the computer, yep work got in the way of art today!

Getting ready for a retreat

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Michelle

Getting all the To-Dos done for an unpcoming Art Retreat I am hosting with Dyan Reaveley and Dina Wakley.

Working on the name badges

and some “special badges” for local customers, lol

Can’t wait – it is going to be an awesome time

Random Images from the show

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Michelle

Here is Anaheim and there is inspiration everywhere, I thought I would share just a couple of images from the show with you

Managed to get a couple of hours off and met up with another store owner from Seattle and we decided to have dinner at downtown Disney

Graphic 45 – their booth is always fabulous

Love this piece by Jim Hankins

Ranger Designer Challenge

The fountains at night just outside the convention center

Wonderful texture

The Prima booth was awesome

and I loved this display by Floracraft

Off to the Trade Show

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Michelle

It is that time of the year again when I head to the Winter Trade show to buy products for the store. Exhausting times but oh so good to see my colleagues and get inspired by all the art goodness around me. This year the show is being held in Anaheim, California

This is the week from my planner

View from my window seat

This white stuff is snow!

Another Long Absence

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Michelle

It seems my intentions are great for this blog but, my execution leaves much to be desired.

I have been trying to get more organized about this site so that when I have the ideas for the blog I am actually in a place where I can write them down and get them done.

Since I have been gone I have taught on a cruise ship headed to Alaska. That was at the end of July and it was just this past friday that I was able to get my photos off my camera

I have designed and had manufactured (and SOLD OUT in one week, yeah me!) a line of stamps for planners and a set for Art Journaling. If you would like to see what they look like please click here for the online store:

How Does She Do It? – this is the stamp set that is helping me get more organized

PS-107 – this stamp set is for people attending school or the parents

Ready Set Go – to help me with planning my next working vacation

and this is the set I designed for Art Journaling – Imperfection

They are BACK IN STOCK

This is a sample of the Art Journal Set which I have used just for fun.

Will try and post more images as I get them photographed. . . . and based on my track record it might be a while, so no one hold their breath!

Auditioning

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Michelle

Just auditioning some images for my art journal. Sometimes I do that and then sometimes I just glue things down and work around them Guess it depends on my mood.

A couple of pages

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Michelle

from my mini art journal

gelatos, gesso, archival ink, stamps and tissue paper

gesso, acrylic paint, washi tape and book paper

a quick project

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Michelle

This is a quick and easy project to do but, oh so cute

First I diecut a strip of tickets from cardstock and then I stamped all over them with mini stamps and words using Jet Black Archival Ink

I added some color using distress inks and an ink blending tool

I inked th eedges of the ticket strips with JJet Black Archival and the tore a strip of muslin just slightly bigger than my ticket strip. I glued the tickets down to the muslin strip

Next I dyed a mini wooden spool with Vintage Photo Distress Stain and added a stamped bobbin image to the top. I glued the first part of the strip to the bobbin and then rolled everything up. I secured it with a decorative pin.