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...
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...
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...
Patterns Spearl and Kurlllz are the last two patterns in this blog series AND the last two patterns I’ll be posting on the Rainbow Elephant in 2011. I kind’a felt like closing things up this way – with a series of tangley fun – would be...
Stuffed Peppers were on our holiday menu this year. Yum. Yum. Need I say more about the inspiration behind this pattern – the 10th one in my blog series “12 Patterns for Christmas?” I’m guessing you get the picture here. LOL I...
Here’s another pattern inspired by one of the ornaments that hangs on our Christmas tree. I like the way the curves in his beard hairs and the sharp corners of the crystal below him contrast against each other. I thought this would make for an...
I have two patterns to share with you today- the 7th and 8th ones in this holiday blog series. I hope that you are enjoying the shares thus far. Feel free to leave a comment here and let me know your thoughts. Good, bad, or indifferent, I am open to all...
“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care. In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.” He dropped off at the Rainbow Elephant blog in the wee hours of the night and blessed these new patterns for me to share. From another one of my Santa...
It’s Christmas Eve at our house. And as our family traditions would have it, this is the night we go out driving through the neighborhoods in town gazing at homes decorated with lights. And it’s these twinkley little beauties that have inspired...
Working off the holiday theme of “The 12 Days of Christmas” song I’ve decided to gift out to my blog visitors my “12 Patterns for Christmas.” Today I’ll share the first two and between now and the end of the year I will...