Free full-color pages of resources for art educators, including paints, brushes, canvas, papers, mediums, frames, airbrushes, screen printing and sign painting supplies, woodworking, sculpture, ceramics, crafts, decorative painting books and videos on every art technique,easels and art furniture.
Free supplemental fine arts sale catalog that offers 84 full-color pages
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Designing Handcrafted Cards: Step-By-Step Techniques for Crafting 60 Beautiful Cards
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by Claire Sun-Ok Choi, Yonghyun Kim Description:
With an amazing skill for simple, beautiful, and exquisite designs, paper craft and quilling expert Claire Sunok Choi offers 60 beautiful card designs that you can make yourself. Each project has detailed step-by-step instructions and photos to ensure complete success.
Includes: *60 beautiful cards for every occasion: New Year's, anniversary, Mother's Day, Valentine's, Christmas as well as cards and invitations to celebrate weddings, birthdays, love, friendship, and the seasons.
*Unique techniques include paper quilling, decorative cutting, piercing, embossing, folding, layering, weaving and more!
*Timesaving shortcuts, tips for personalizing, and gorgeous photos of finished projects.
• Add texture to your cards with charms, eyelets, decorative threads, page pebbles, paper flowers, and ribbons
• Learn fun techniques such as rubber stamping, embossing, image transferring, paint crackling, and chalking
Texture Effects for Rubber Stamping
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by Nancy Curry Description:
Top trend spotters in the craft and greeting card industry say that consumers are showing a real passion for texture. Crafters can easily satisfy that craving with this treasure trove of 40 elegant card and gift projects. It teaches plenty of texture-making techniques that utilize the magic of stamping in all its forms.
• Step-by-step, readers will have fun combining basic stamping techniques with metallic paints, resist effects, alcohol inks, layers of acetate, watercolors, embellishments and much more!
• Projects are conveniently grouped into sections that highlight the different ways texture can be created-by using visual texture, spot coloration, layered texture or adding embellishments.
• Long-time rubber stampers and card makers will be inspired by all the new texturing techniques and clever variations demonstrated in this book.
The first section of the book features tips and techniques that show how to do various creative alterations on fabric: ripping, tearing, painting and dyeing, beading, adding images and letters, and adding hardware such as grommets, snaps, jewels, and more. The second section of the book includes 30 altered clothing and accessory projects the avid crafter can make at home.
Step-by-step photography details the techniques, and large, vibrant color photos of finished projects show off the fashionable projects.
All the basic bookmaking techniques include lots of specialized tips. Simple book structures, miniature books, and a wide variety of projects that highlight themes such as travel, music, even wearable books?a book necklace and earrings?provide creative variations on traditional ideas.
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His internationally best-selling Griffin & Sabine saga is treasured for its blend of lyrical storyline and compelling, imaginative art. Now Nick Bantock gives a short course in visual creativity in Urgent 2nd Class. A tour through the techniques and materials which constitute his signature style, Bantock shares with readers numerous ways ways of using old paper ephemera -- maps, letters, postcards, ledgers, scraps, photos, and many more items -- to create their own idiosyncratic art. Written for people of all artistic skill levels, the materials mentioned are all easily found and inexpensive, and the processes are simple enough to do at home (and with access to the most advanced machinery used in the book, a photocopier). An inspirational guide to the simple artistic techniques which can alchemically transform ephemera into remarkable works, Urgent 2nd Class is the handbook for a new generation of visual poets.
Artists Journals and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages
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by Lynne Perrella Description:
Creative souls want and need a special place for recording and decoding their interior world a place to download all their creative ideas, a place to remember the events of the day, or a place to doodle, to draw, and to dream. This book is an engaging and intimate glimpse into the personal pages of a wide variety of select artists and journal keepers whose works not only provide visual delight and inspiration but evidence the intensity and devotion that such personal journals invite.
Altered Books Workshop: 18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression
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by Bev Brazelton Description:
Transform old books into one-of-a-kind pieces of art with Altered Books Workshop! In this book, readers receive detailed instructions for the newest craft craze--altered books--which combines bookmaking, collage, journaling, rubber stamping, papercrafting, stitching, embellishing and much more.
Readers will discover how to construct each page of the book, using paint, decoupage, ribbon fibers, photos, charms, rubber stamps or anything that captures their imagination. Bev Brazelton walks them step-by-step through the process, teaching readers a wide range of mixed media and papercrafting techniques. In addition, gallery pages showcase sample books with variations of each technique to infuse readers' brains with creative ideas of their own.
Everyday Matters
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by Danny Gregory Description:
"Two years before I started drawing, my wife was run over by a subway train. Sounds really terrible, I know. But, well, this book is about how art and New York City saved my life." When Danny Gregory's wife was severely injured, his life was changed in an instant. Searching about for meaning for what had happened to his little family, he began to create a richly illustrated journal of his life. Gregory as driven to record and comment on every aspect of his life, from dirty dishes to cathedrals, from hospital wards to life-drawing classes, from brunch with Hell's Angels to book shopping at the Strand. This unique book chronicles his discovery of drawing, his wife's rehabilitation, his son's infancy, and the life of the city he loves. Funny, bittersweet, romantic, and perverse, Everyday Matters is an inspiration, an invitation to look for the beauty and significance in the details of our daily lives.
Collage Discovery Workshop shows readers how to rust or antique any object for collage and includes four recipes for creating amazing collage backgrounds from peeling paper to textured paint and so much more. In addition, five different image transfer techniques--for layering vintage photos and other art--along with creative excercises, journaling prompts and tips on altering books are included. Projects consist of the following:
*Collaged tin refrigerator magnets
*Heritage collage to honor a friend or relative
*Miniature candy tin assemblages
*Shadowboxes
*Beeswax collages
Stamp Artistry: The All New Stamp Artist's Project Book
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by Rice Freeman-Zachery
Description:Stamping is among the most popular artistic techniques, because its uses are virtually limitless. No matter what medium they work in, artists and decorators alike can use stamping to create one-of-a-kind pieces with simple techniques.
This follow-up book to Rockport?s successful "The Stamp Artist?s Project Book" highlights the latest and best new techniques and cutting-edge materials used in this arena today. It includes projects for everything from stamping in polymer clay to stamped metal jewelry, from using stamps to create an aged look on papers and letters to a stamped artist journal, and from stamped furniture to stamped glass charms.
Covering the gamut of stamping know-how, from basic tools to professional tips to an extensive resource list, this how-to guide is for any artist who wants to incorporate the latest new techniques and trends in his or her work.
Stamp Art Inspirations with MaryJo McGraw
by MaryJo McGraw
Description: This DVD is jam-packed with almost two hours of projects, tips, and ideas. MaryJo shows you, step-by-step, just how easy it is to create gorgeous artwork using rubber stamps. She makes working with many supplies, from shrink plastic to mica tiles, effortless and elegant. Drag out your craft supplies and get ready to play.
Projects
Learn and be inspired from your own front row seat while MaryJo demonstrates: Ink Basics, Glazing with Glue, Quick Collage, Collage Veneer, Glazed Metallics, Faux Fresco, Catalina Tiles, Quick Cards, Heirloom Cards and Mini Book.
Interactive Gallery
The gallery is overflowing with more than 50 pieces of sample artwork. When you see something that inspires you jump directly to the technique used to create it.
Creative Stamping With Mixed Media Techniques
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by Sherrill Kahn
Description: With Sherrill Kahn’s new book, mixed media plus stamping equals breathtaking artistic creations. There’s no end to the projects crafters will be able to create after being introduced to the wide variety of materials and techniques in this must- have book. Readers will learn how to: Create layers of color and texture through embossing Make unique jewelry using children’s puzzle pieces Transform three-dimensional objects, including buttons, books and wire Stamp on such alternative surfaces as glass blocks, metal and wood Decorate and mount ceramic tiles Emboss velvet and create fabric motifs And much, much more! Each idea is accompanied by thoughtfully organized step-by-step instructions, and most include directions for simple sample project—so easy even beginners can begin right away.
Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking
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by Holly Harrison Description: Today more than ever, you can’t judge a book by its cover. Why? Because two of the hottest new trends in bookmaking are pushing the boundaries of what it means to write, read, and experience a book.
This exciting guide explores the creative processes behind altered books when artists make their own distinctive mark on an already published workand collaborative journals in which many artists come together to create a unique single work.
Readers will learn how to alter treasured books through collage, paint, layering, sewing and more. And they’ll learn how communities of artists can come together to select a topic, set up a project, and ultimately publish or show their finished collaborative work.
Filled with easy, how-to projects and beautiful gallery photos, this book will help artists of any ability to create books that tell unique and personal stories.
Rubber Stamped Jewelry: Includes Essential Techniques and 20 Projects
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by Sharilyn Miller
Description: Beautiful, one-of-a-kind projects that are easy-to-make, rubber stamped jewelry appeals not only to rubber stampers and jewelry makers but to crafters of all skill levels. These fabulous jewelry sets are created with simple techniques that lead to beautiful results.
In no time at all, readers will learn invaluable techniques to create lovely earrings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches using a wide array of easy-to-find materials like fabric, paper, polymer clay and, of course, rubber stamps.
Rubber Stamped Jewelry is divided into four parts: Tools & Materials Stamping Basics and Creative Alternatives Working With Wire & Beads Fiber Art
Guided by simple-to-follow instructions, crafters will find just how easy it is to fashion truly breathtaking and unique jewelry and gifts.
Vintage Greeting Cards With Mary Jo McGraw: Create Timeless Cards Using Family Photos & Keepsakes
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by Mary McGraw
Description: As the scrapbooking and family history crazes continue to grow, memory crafting, vintage and nostalgic themes and retro chic are influencing everything from stationary and giftware to craft products and publications.
Now Mary Jo McGraw capitalizes on these popular trends with a book featuring keepsake card projects using family photographs, paper ephemera, vintage trinkets and retro styling. Readers will discover a range of paper crafting techniques and exciting projects.
Perfect for the beginning card crafter or advanced card crafter looking for new ideas, Vintage Greeting Cards with Mary Jo McGraw will show them how to:
*Use photos of loved ones to create keepsake cards
*Use photo corners to create unusual cards
*Age any paper surface through spritzing, speckling and dipping
*Use antique labels, old movie stubs and newspapers to create unique photo collage cards
*Transfer color copier images to cardstock and photos to polymer clay
*Embellish cards with old buttons, ribbons and other dimensional trinkets
