I'm really thrilled that Tangie Baxter asked me if I would write a little bit about my book for her blog. I did and also created a PDF of how to do the pages with doors in them. You can read it and get the PDF on her blog, Studio Tangie Baxter. While you're there check out all the other great stuff she has! Maybe you'll want to join in on the Caravan for next year, it's lots of fun! Here are a couple of pages I did featuring Mandalas. I drew the mandalas myself, which is a lot easier than it looks. I made one petal (using the pen tool in Photoshop) and then copied it eight times, rotating it each time to form a circle. I then duplicated all eight, sent them to the back and rotated again to make the back layer of petals. I used my wacom tablet and pen to fill in the shapes with doodles. I did the doodling on a separate layer. Then I filled each group of shapes with a neutral color and copied each group to a layer to make a template that I could clip papers too. After that I just clipped the papers I wanted to each shape group. I hope that makes sense. I'll try and do a little tutorial when I get a minute.

I have this idea to do a cluster scrapbook. As though I don't already have enough on my plate for this year. The thing is I have a ton of gorgeous clusters. Most are from Raspberry Road. She posts a new free one 6 days a week and I always get them. You can too, they are here:  Raspberry Road

I hardly ever actually use them though. I'm not bad at making clusters so I don't normally think of the pre-made ones unless I'm really under the gun timewise. So I have hundreds of these beautiful ones going to waste. I'm thinking of doing a project where I can only use the things in my clusters folder so I can get some of them used up!