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These gorgeous papers are the impressive result of not very much effort! All you need is some Citra Solv Cleaner/Degreaser and a National Geographic magazine. Check out these awesome results:  

My first project for the Canvas Corp Brands Creative Crew is this 4 x 4 canvas that we were asked to decorate in a way that reflects our personal style. My style is lots of layers but not a lot of dimension or "fluff" so I chose to create depth by making gel medium decals from paper pad pages and images. The transparent decals were layered over the canvas which had been randomly painted with a variety of Tattered Angels paints. Visit the Canvas Corp Brands website to find the following products I used: 7gypsies Ordre du jour 8x8 Paper Pad Gears: Industrial (14 pieces) Mini Ephemera - Receipts Tattered Angels Walnut Gold- Glimmer Mist 2oz Sangria- Glimmer Glaze 1 oz Seven Seas- Chalkboard 2oz Olive - Stained Glass 1.35oz Canvas Home Basics Ticking Fringe 1 Yard - red 4 x 4 Stretched Natural Canvas Other products used: Omni Gel Perfect Paper Adhesive *Note: affiliate links provided where available.

Christmas is over but I've just started making my list and checking it twice for the Spring Inspiration Conspiracy Video Hop! Inspiration Conspiracy is a mentoring program I started where 3 or 4 large or more established YouTube channels get together with 9 small channels and we have a video hop. Our viewers are treated to 13 10-minute process videos where they can see projects being made by some of their favorite creative YouTubers as well as some new channels they might not be familiar with. This creates a lot of new traffic and exposure for the small YouTube channels, giving them a little help to establish a viewership. Since the hop is designed in a way that makes it easy to hop from one channel to the next during one viewing session, it increases our watch time which is a huge benefit for the larger channels. I love it when everybody wins! I frequently get asked how a channel can participate in an Inspiration Conspiracy event. The bad news is that it is by invitation only. But...

My first obsession for 2016 is my En Masse Collection Journal inspired by: Kagedfish's Scavenger Hunt Glue Book Keri Smith's Wreck This Journal   Keri Smith's The Pocket Scavenger   DeDe Willingham's Magazine Journals    Shannon Green's Journals For No Reason   Shannon Green's En Masse Pinterest board I want 2016 to be the year that I use my stuff and I'm starting with a fun glue book/junk journal/art journal. I will use the categories below to fill my journal with items from my collection that I'm hoarding but not using. Then I will use it as a guide to keep an eye out for more potential journal fodder as the year progresses. I started with 2 2015 Oklahoma travel guide books Some pages got a little gesso, others were collaged with wax paper scraps. This page is for #32, washi tape Blue things go on this page for category #50 A random art journal page for no reason Postage stamps, category #17 Watch my YouTube video for a more in depth explanation: Dow...

I have a really sad story to share which is unusual for me since I like to keep things light and happy, but I feel the need to write about this so I'm going to do it here. I was back in my home town over the Christmas holiday and had lunch with a friend from school who I haven't seen in 31 years. We weren't close friends and didn't hang out together after school, but we did have classes together off and on from 1st-12th grade. I was very shy and socially awkward in school (okay fine, I still am!) and Debi was very friendly and outgoing but she was always kind to me and I appreciated her very much for that. We had a really nice lunch, gave each other a brief synopsis of the past 31 years, and reminisced about a time when our thighs were smaller. We both had the same homeroom teacher in first grade but when Debi asked who my homeroom teacher was in second grade I couldn't remember. This has always been an issue for me because I used to be able to list all of my homero...

I needed to get out of my own head for a little while this afternoon so I went to see Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. It's a 3 hour long Bollywood musical comedy subtitled in English. It was like the love child of a badly overacted Elvis movie and a live action version of a Disney cartoon. I wouldn't call it a good movie but I loved it. The fairy tale story has been done half to death so it was predictable, the acting was bad, it didn't even attempt to be half way intelligent, there were a few witty moments but way more eye rolling ones, and I sat there for 3 hours with a goofy smile on my face. The sets and costumes were spectacular and fit well with the ridiculous fairy tale plot. I was even tapping my toe to the badly lip synced song-and-dance scenes. If they had been subtitled I probably would have sung along...against my own will. Apparently I live under a rock because I had never heard of Salman Khan but I read that he is something like the 7th highest paid actor in the world. ...

On October 8, 2015 we had our second Inspiration Conspiracy video hop and it was another screaming success! When I left the first hop group (Genesis) to create the new group (Lazarus), the Genesis group decided to add another host channel to replace me. They very wisely chose Gina Ahrens to join Mike Deakin and PackerDi . The rest of the group stayed the same. Their results weren't as spectacular as the first hop but that was to be expected. Each channel still saw more growth in less time than ever before! I decided to add an extra host to future groups so each time I move on to a new group they'll barely notice it. Heh. The graciously giving and infinitely inspiring Host Channels for the Lazarus group are Cat Hand , Patti Parrish , and Kelly Donovan . These are the talented hopper channels we had the pleasure of hosting: Audrea Gustafson   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4GtdLOa6g3EZH2Gu0J8DTA Wendy Mason   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWy5_Oy7w7XVQWI8CqdqOA Ina Sols...