Joanna has offered a wonderful tutorial, complete with lots of photos for us visual types, on making paper from your scraps. Not table scraps, silly! Paper scraps that come in the mail everyday. Crafty Daisies has posted the tutorial. Love that blog! Joanna’s website is The Harding Street Assembly Lab. Great name!
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The Journey
Computer parts, wire, and digital images all live happily together in Bonnie Meltzer’s painted and embellished work. Not content to confine herself to one mode of expression, Bonnie makes jewelry, wall pieces, assemblages, and does web design too!
I invite you to spend a pleasant hour oooooing and aaaaaahing over all the treats on […]
Art Attack Thursday!
Lots of times in mixed media projects, we’d like to add a bit of hand-stitched elegance! Sometimes we can get away with just winging it, but other times the pattern is a bit more crucial. Here’s a great little tutorial from Melissa at Elemental Stitches on how to transfer your pattern to fabric. […]
Monica Ewing, of Home By Sunset, has provided a very clever tutorial on making a wonderful-looking sunset mirror for a few measly dollars. You can spray paint it with metallic paint if you’d like the traditional look :-) Visit the rest of Sunset’s blog while you’re there…it’s full of clever ideas.
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An amazing artist with a busy schedule, who still takes the time to encourage young artists that she meets! That’s JoAnnA! Visit her blog and enjoy her artwork, marvel at her courage, and enjoy the journey through her creative process. There’s much more to see at Moss Hill Studio, JoAnnA’s website.
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Art Attack Thursday!
Oh my, these are so cute. I’m thinking that computer keyboard keys might work too, with a little tweaking… Thanks to Jessfun23 for this great idea! Craftster.org has the thread with the directions.
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Sophia Michahelles: Vanity Fair
MECA and the Portland Public Library have struck!! What a brilliant idea, giving away deaccessioned books from the library to MECA students!
MECA and the Portland Public Library teamed up to present “Long Overdue: Book Renewal.” Starting with books that had been withdrawn from the Portland Public Library as no longer suitable […]
What a great name! Carol A Tanzi is the self-proclaimed Goddess, and I’d have to agree with her. I’m making her a crown out of used Christmas garland even as we speak…
I love this project. I’m sure you’ve seen those old or reproduction soda crates. Well, here Carol explains how to turn them into enchanting […]
Commissioned piece: recycled toys on wooden frame
Ryan McElhinney has taken his talents primarily into the areas of lighting and furniture. For such serious subjects, it looks to me like he’s having way too much fun, you think? I am particularly taken by all the pieces that he makes with recycled toys, like the frame above, […]
Not Star Wars, but Steam Wars!! Star Wars figures have been repurposed into the scifi style known as steampunk…a Victorian universe with fantastic technology in retro systems. Visit Sillof’s Workshop to see more!
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Do not throw ANYTHING out!
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