Ali Edwards Capture life. Create art.

One of my favorite products of the season are the Christmas ornaments from Basic Grey. You punch out a bunch of circles (that are already scored), glue them together, and you have these fabulous little ornaments. I put some together yesterday ...

First off, I want snow! Talked to my brother and sister-in-law last night (in Tacoma, WA) and they told me it snowed about 4 inches there yesterday. Tracy Kyle emailed me that she had snow too in BC. I want snow. And not just a little bit. I want a ...

Thanks everyone for the great comments yesterday. I wanted to answer some of the questions related to the album/project. 1. that awesome tree stamp comes from a company called Memory Box2. the sticker under the tree stamp is from 7gypsies3. the photo on the cover was ...

told you I was in the mood today. Here is what I put together for my Christmas Art Journal cover and first page. I am going to use this as a daily record of the holiday and then use the other one I already put together (with the circles) ...

Got to play the other night when some friends came over for a visit (hi friends). They were busy with their stuff so I busied myself with mine. Just for fun. Just as play. I began with the three mini-canvases. I had ...

Had a bit of time tonight to play with my art journal. It has been neglected as I travel and work on other, more linear, projects for the magazine. Man, this medium ...

This is so much of what it is all about for me. Bringing the inside out. Losing it enough to let it out from the inside. Even the everyday stuff. Donna and I had a good joke going last weekend that ...

I think one of the reasons I fell in love with design and scrapbooking is that it gave me a reason to make art. A reason to play with papers and words and images. ...

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Sometimes it is really tough to just be. Attempting to identify where I like to simply be...to me this has something to do with being present. Quietly present. I crave the quiet component in there. ...

One of the aspects I am loving about this art journal challenge is the opportunity for excess. To get carried away and go overboard and go outside the lines and just put stuff where ever seems ...

This is really good for me. This something different. This expression. This possibility. Just a bit about how I put this together. I started off using oil pastels on canvas paper for the background. Using Golden Matte Medium (per ...