Seed to Flower

with Sarah Gardner

Seed to Flower: Trusting the Process of Transformation

Plant your story, trust the process, and watch meaning bloom across your art journal pages.

Find freedom in the process of layering different media to create an art journal spread that celebrates transformation. When we create in layers, we approach each step in the process with curiosity, playfulness, and wonder. The next step might be one of covering up what we just put down, letting go of this in order to transform the pages into something new. We’ll create our own collage material, and then layer collage, paints, mark making, and fluid media for a rich and beautiful background. Then we’ll add focal imagery and final details to complete the spread.

We can experience, and find joy in, the transformation we witness in our art journals. Then we realize, we can trust the process in those pages, so why not in our lives?

Class Lessons

Welcome to Seed to Flower
Seeds of Inspiration
Creative Empowerment
Embracing Change
More Seeds of Inspiration

Sarah Gardner

This is Sarah Gardner, aka, Juicy*S. Juicy*S is her DJ name. She's not a DJ. She would love to be a DJ. It's one of her fantasy dream jobs, really. She got this name when she was slinging paint and working in her art journal with a couple girlfriends,, drinking wine and keeping track of the funny things they were saying on a "sign-in" sheet...just craziness. They all ended up with a DJ name that day. She started her first blog with this name, and she's had it ever since.

She's the girl (yes, even though she's fifty-something, she's still a girl!) who has a Tutu Dance Party and makes every one of her guests their own tutu! She's the kind of person who thinks a lot (maybe too much) about things. Art journaling is a creative practice that is her self-care. She loves to take what she's learned and infuse her art journal pages with meaning as well. She's a life-long learner, and learning is really what life is all about for her. She's also a lawyer, a wife, and a mom of two. She lives with her family in Southern California, in a small surf community called Cardiff by the Sea.