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Make Mosaic Glass Look-a-like Pieces With Old Cds
Make Mosaic Pieces Out of Old Cds This craft recycles old cds to be re-purposed for cool jewelry pieces or mosaic pieces. Supplies needed: cds you are willing to destroy scissors paints (colors of your choice) paint brush ruler or anything straight to help you draw a straight line pan that you can lay a sheet of foil down to… Read More
Painting on Rocks & Stones
DIY Tutorial For Painting on Rocks and Stones Another simple and budget friendly craft for kids and adults alike. You can simply walk outside or go to the nearest creek by your house to start collecting stones and rocks. I have found that the more flat and smooth the rock is, the better and easier it will be to create… Read More
Turn Old Magazines Into Beads !
DIY Craft making beads out of old magazines This is a wonderful craft for kids and adults. Take all those magazines you have been hoarding (you have read but just can’t give up yet) and lay them out. The more colorful the better. Turn your old magazines into beads. The most important part in doing this… Read More
DIY Crafts With Old Magazines and Newspapers
Ways You Can Upcycle Your Magazines & Newspapers Art supplies can be expensive so making diy crafts with old magazines and newspapers will save you money. Plus, you will help upcycle what would normally be recycled. The possibilities of creation with paper are endless, but I am going to share crafts I have been obsessed with this last month…. Read More
Tips for Carving Pumpkins
If you are carving a pumpkin this year, please take my advice on this. If you are wanting to preserve your beautiful work and looking for a natural way to make your pumpkin last longer, here are a few tips for carving pumpkins. What TO DO, and what you do NOT want to use. After I had carved… Read More
Creating Vision Boards with Old Magazines
What to do with all your read magazines?! I have a confession, usually what I do with my magazines after skimming them for any interesting articles, is creating vision boards. Vision Boards are fun to create and quite valuable… A vision board can be done using any art really, but what I personally do is use a piece of… Read More
Zazzle to Customize (Print On Demand) Just About Anything!
Don’t have time to read the post now? Bookmark for later… ↓ What is Zazzle? Zazzle has been around since 2005, and they have such a wide variety of items you can customize that I think it is totally safe to say you can personalize any part of your life. This site offers hundreds of items you can either upload… Read More
All About “Utrecht” Art Supplies (art supplies and art education)
All About “Utrecht” Art Supplies (Utrecht joined the Blick Art family in 2013) Backstory: Â It all started in 1949, the Gulamerian brothers (Norman and Harold) began their own linen import business out of their basement. At an early age they were obsessed with supplying artists with quality supplies at the best value. They named the company after their high school… Read More
All About “Spoonflower” (Print On Demand for fabric, wallpaper, & gift wrap)
All About “SpoonFlower” Founded in 2008, Spoonflower was created by Gart Davis and Stephen Fraser. Both of their wives are extremely creative and asked why there was not yet a company to design your own custom fabric (later referred to as “the question”). The idea was turned into the first of its kind out of Durham, North Carolina. The… Read More
Fabric.com for Fine Fabrics and Amazing Prices Online
Fabric.com for Fine Fabrics and Amazing Prices Online This leading online fabric store was founded in 1993, but did not launch their online website until 1999. The warehouse based out of Texas will hold millions of yards of fabric! They decided to see how wholesale distribution would do by connecting potential customers to the fabric over the web…. Read More
Blick Art Materials for Quality Art Supplies & Art Education
Everything Blick Art Can Supply For You (as an artist or an educator) But first, a quick history- Dick Blick Art’s first catalogue was printed in 1911 and the company itself was founded by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Blick. They began their business from home and their original “warehouse” was their kitchen. Their original “shipping center”… Read More
Chameleon Pens for the Ultimate Shading & Gradation Technique
Don’t have time to read the post now? Bookmark for later… ↓ Ultimate Art Supplies For Shading Spice up your coloring skills with these amazing pens! Chameleon pens are  (and patented formula) the Ultimate art supplies for shading and gradation techniques. They will allow you to draw with colored pens and pencils and make them flow beautifully from one color… Read More
Best Suppliers for Beading Crafts
Don’t have time to read the post now? Save and bookmark for later… ↓                   Best Suppliers for Beading Crafts When it comes to finding the best suppliers for beading crafts, you want great prices, awesome style, and simplicity for ordering…. Read More
Top Gifts For Vinyl Lovers
Don’t have time to read the post now? Save and bookmark for later… ↓                     Top Gifts For the Vinyl Obsessed Almost everyone is a music lover of some type, BUT we all have that family member or friend that loves… Read More
Affiliates For Artists
Don’t have time to read the post now? Save and bookmark for later… ↓ Must-Have Affiliates For Artists Whether you have a blog or not, if you are an artist and thinking about selling your art from home OR you do have a blog and want to know how to monetize it,… Read More
Having Trouble Visualizing What You Want To Draw? 3 Books to help you draw ANYTHING.
Having Trouble Visualizing What You Want To Draw? 3 Books to help you draw ANYTHING. As an artist sometimes it can be difficult to translate the ideas we have in our head onto paper. Seriously some days I need some type of example or reference. If I want to draw a horse, I have a hard time getting… Read More
Best Books For Jewelry Crafts : Resin, Polymer Clay, Wire Wrapped, and many more…
Best Books For Jewelry Crafts : Resin, Polymer Clay, Wire Wrapped, and many more… If you are looking for DIY Arts & Crafts inspiration, you will find all kinds in the following books. I have really grown to love multi media crafting. Polymer clay is so much fun, but if you add Resin into the project it makes… Read More
Best Books For Brush Lettering- for any level creative lettering
Best Books For Brush Lettering – for beginner or novice hand lettering. If you want to improve you hand lettering techniques or are trying to learn how to create beautiful messages with brush-lettering, these are my favorite books for brush lettering. 1.) The Calligrapher’s Bible– This one is great because it includes so many different styles, with step-by-step… Read More
Book Review: “Graphic Artist Guild Handbook”
Graphic Artist Guild Handbook Book Review: Graphic Artist Guild Handbook to Pricing & Ethical Guidelines. The guild handbooks are very useful guides to have at your fingertips to know how much to buy and sell graphic designs for. This book is an awesome buyer’s guide so you won’t ever be underpaid or overcharged! Also, the Graphic Artist… Read More
