I don’t know about you, but I can fall down the Instagram and Pinterest rabbit hole in about three seconds. There are so many amazing tag ideas out there — shapes, layers, textures, pockets, clusters — and every time I see one, I think, I want to try that. But when I actually sit down…
Some of my favorite journal pages have started with nothing more than color. No theme, no plan, no big idea. Just a color that caught my eye. Sometimes it was an image in a magazine. Sometimes it came from a piece of packaging. Sometimes it was simply a color I kept reaching for over and…
Plus 5 forgiveness verses to use in your journal Forgiveness has never been something I just “snap into.” I used to think I should be able to move on quickly if I prayed hard enough, but that’s not how the heart works. Hurt settles in deep places. It shows up in ways we don’t expect….
How Better Color Choices Fix Everything Every artist and journaler I know has had this moment. You finish a page, step back, and something about it just feels wrong. Not bad exactly. Just off. The elements are fine. The layout is fine. The technique is fine. But the page doesn’t look the way you imagined…
I talk to a lot of women who want to draw but feel a surprising amount of fear around it. They want to try sketching in their journals, they admire other people’s faces or florals or little doodles on Instagram, and yet when they sit down with a pen and a blank page, something inside…
I have a confession:I don’t draw faces — yet. I use them in my journals sometimes through cutouts, prints, or collage bits created by other artists (and they truly are beautiful). And yes, I have drawn a face or two myself along the way, but I’m not good at it. Somewhere deep down, I’ve always…