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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
All About “Utrecht” Art Supplies (Utrecht joined the Blick Art family in 2013) Backstory: 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” 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 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
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
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
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
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
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… 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 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
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
Don’t have time to read the post right now?! Click here to save the pdf version, OR Click here to save to your Pinterest account to read later:) Create pendents with Pebeo Prisme Fantasy Paint & Alcohol Inks: Found another way to use alcohol inks. Pebeo Prisme paints are really cool paints that will blend… Read More
Alcohol Inks To Make BEAUTIFUL Necklaces Out of Washers. Inspiration for art comes from everywhere…and this is one technique that just keeps on giving (ideas…for me:). First of all, if you have never used alcohol inks, they LOVE surfaces that are non-porous. So, we are talking glass, plastic, ceramic, metal, etc. The inks themselves are highly concentrated which… Read More
Creating Washer Pendents W/ Alcohol Inks and Metal Stamping For the past few months I have been experimenting with alcohol inks, and out of no where, I thought about adding another element to my alcohol ink pendent creations. Metal stamps! They are fairly cheap, very easy to use, but you must have the right tools… Read More
If you don’t have time to read the post now save and bookmark to read later… ↓ (There is also a free printout at the bottom of this post that includes supplies and instructions) Getting Started With Acrylic Pouring Acrylic pouring is a more recent method of painting that is… Read More
Adhesive Vinyl Instead Of Yupo For Your Alcohol Ink Art: Alcohol ink has been my obsession for the last few months because there are SO many projects you can do with them. They are a bit more expensive than say quality acrylics or oils, but they have way more versatility. If you are not familiar with alcohol inks and… Read More
DIY Bean Bags- a simple, fun, and inexpensive game for all ages. DIY Bean Bags might be the easiest thing I have ever sewn. To create this DIY craft, you will need the following items: SUPPLIES: scrap material (or cut up an old t-shirt, sheet, curtain, etc.) to make at least 3 bags per player. So… Read More
Best Tools For Clay: Making jewelry with polymer clay has been an exciting adventure in the past month. I would even say my obsession. Here are The 5 Must Have Tools When Working With Polymer Clay. Lucky for you I went out and purchased a bunch of tools and books, so I can give you helpful feedback… Read More
Don’t have time to read the post now? Save and bookmark for later… ↓ What are Print On Demand Companies? Selling your art through Print On Demand sites can be a very lucrative additional or primary income. Why are print on demand sites so great? Because all you have to do is create the art,… Read More
