Art Journal Techniques

A quick and easy way to transfer some print material to your art journaling pages, that I came across mostly by accident and have since us...

I am very excited because I have been playing around with homemade modeling paste. It is quite fun to use stencils and slather on some white paste on a collage page and lift off the stencil and se…

Crumpled Paper Process Art Activity for Kids: inspired by the children's book, Ish, by Peter Reynolds~ BuggyandBuddy.com

Frugal Family Fun shows you how to recycle an empty packing tape tube into a stamp wheel!

Hi everyone, Mou Saha here from Creating Keepsakes magazine. In spirit of green crafting, I had been salvaging an old book into my current art journal. Here’s a spread from that book. Here are my steps in visuals and captions. Hope you enjoyed my little process tutorial and would give it a try. If you like upcycling the stuff of life, you might enjoy the 4-week workshop I’m teaching at Big Picture Classes called Lift Me Up! -GIVEAWAY- Please leave a comment to this post about your favorite…

Paint this glazed color grid as a reference. This watercolor technique will help you mix more accurate colors from now on thanks to your new glazed grid

Ideas to spark your artistic creativity.

My Distress Ink Art Journal Tutorial shows how to use distress inks, stamps, and stencils in your art journal. Click for a free download, too!

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Tape Lift Stamping Technique by The Technique Zone. Ink stamp with StazOn ink. Lay tape on stamp & press gently to transfer image to tape. Lift tape & stick on cardstock. Image will transfer to cardstock but will be reversed.

For years, Kelly Wilkinson's name was familiar to listeners of KQED, the local NPR...

I mentioned recently that I've been working with Jane Davies' DVD, Scribble Collage. I spent a few days last week painting papers, and earlier this week I made eight small collage studies using those papers. The collages are 7-1/2 x 11 inches, on 140# watercolor paper. The studies aren't finished pieces, they're just play. Seeing how papers work together, experimenting with collage structures. The only caveat to what I've learned from Jane about painting papers is that sumi ink is still ink…

How-to modeling paste technique for collages

What a lovely weekend I had as an honorary Moss sister attending an art retreat for 3 in Palm Springs. Isn't the place Mary Ann found fun? As soon as I got there, I had to add a little birthday...

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