Meet Nancy B from Polly-Wolly Doodle

A while back I posted a little ditty about my Tail Capper zendoodles.  And a doodler named Nancy Babb left a response telling me about how she incorporated tail cappers into her doodle frames.  So of course I had to pop over to her blog...

Wordy, Word, Words

  Most everyone has a page (or two… or more) in their creative journals that incorporates the use of text presented in an artful way.  Since I haven’t done one of those in my Inspire, Inspire journal for 2012 yet – it’s time to get with...

Moon Glow Inspired

  Several nights this week we had a full moon lighting up our night sky.  Each evening as I pulled the curtains closed before climbing into bed it seemed the big fella was whispering, “good night.”  And when I awoke the next morning he was still there...

More Repeat Patterns from the Colorful Elephant?

So I’m in the studio yesterday gathering up the last of my 2011 loose-leaf journal pages and compiling them into my “creative yearbook” and “book box” – when just for gee-wiz sake I decided to count the number of repetitive patterns...

By My Hands – Creative Prompt

Here’s an art page prompt for you that I encourage you to tweak to meet your needs.  The words may seem to fit better with a slight change in the basic phrase.  I toss out there – “By My Hands.”  You may feel more like, “By His...

Revealing the Creative Process

In this article I’m going to do something that’s a bit different for me.  I am going to walk you through the creative process that I experienced while creating a page in my journal.  Typically this is something I keep to myself because I feel a bit...

Fresh New Beginnings

  I’m ready to open a fresh, untouched journal this morning and begin a new creative adventure.  How about you?  This morning my mind and my muse is pondering on, “Fresh New Beginnings”.  So that’s the prompt I’ll be using while...

Inspire, Inspire in Twenty Twelve

  As I do every year I’ll be working on multiple creative journals at the same time.  In 2010 one of my journals was filled with only repeat pattern art drawings.  I’ve decided once again to dedicate one of my journals to just line-weaving creations...

Best Plans – Went South

Ever have one of those days where all your time was accounted for in your plans and nothing was to interrupt the flow (or else)?  Well that was my yesterday and all was going according to plan until about 3:30/4:00 when an unexpected guest showed up and quite frankly...