I hope the new decade is treating you well so far. To kick off the week, I bring you some cool crafts and a fellow designer's review. Enjoy!
Mixed Media Artist
Nikki Yeager shares her glue transfer technique with Cyndi's readers! Thanks Nikki!
Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery
Skull and cupcake necklace using "Chaos" Wire wrapping from the cool new book: Chain and Bead Jewelry Creative Connections.
The Artful Crafter
Come one, come all - free decorator candles!
The only catch is that you have to make them yourself, but that's half
the fun. Here's how to make your own zero cost candles.
About Family Crafts
Print out and customize 2010 calendar pages. Choose from several designs.
Aileen's Musings
Aileen has a new digi postcard she's posted
along with a freebie image. Find out what journaling and stuffed
animals have in common...
Cathie Filian
Time to make room for 2010 magazines and cold
storage 2009 issues. Make this cute magazine holder with a little paper
and Mod Podge.
Crafty Princess Diaries
The Crafty Princess is planning to craft some black-eyed peas for the new year! Check out this simple and yummy recipe.
Cross Stitch at About.com
Start a new ornament collection - join Connie
and stitch a new one each month. The designs are abstract, so they are
suitable for any holiday.
Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter
Madge shares some new advice for a new year!
Check out what Andrew Borloz, Designer/Artist/Instructor of the blog www.andrewborloz.blogspot.com, had to say about the cool book:
Vintage Collage Journals
Journaling with Antique Ephemera
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The Review:
"When I first saw the title, I was not crazy about using the antique or vintage images for my visual journaling projects unless they related to a specific event or experience. As I looked at some of the beautiful illustrations done in watercolor, I experienced some sort of déjà vu and I wondered why. I now realized that I had gotten two or more of the author’s series of art books relating to nature & wildlife a while ago.
Her journals are full of fantastic illustrations, beautiful handwriting, and well-composed & seamless arrangements of collage elements. Four types of journals are explored in this book with some of the processes and techniques explained in detail: travel, food & wine, nature & garden, and family keepsake. Maryjo’s style is consistently the same throughout the book.
The primary focus of this book is on collage and painting techniques for journaling purposes. Of special interest to me are two of painting techniques from this book: 1.painting spotted egg image on paper with gouache; and 2.using a scumbling brush for page edges. In many of her journal pages, the artist used different collage elements such as napkins with vintage images, postcards, stamps, cancellations, flowers, birds, menus, wine labels, and music sheets in such a way that it is almost impossible to see the seams. Some of them are available as clip art (seven pages) at the end of the book for personal use.
Also contained in this book is a brief tutorial on pressing botanicals. Although there are many beautiful drawings, handwriting and watercolors shown in the book, instructions were not provided as they are beyond the scope of the book. But Maryjo did a great job of making the collage elements and hand-done illustration blend together. If one is looking for ways to achieve the vintage look in the journal pages, this book is indeed full of various collage, blending and tinting techniques."
Hey thanks for linking to that glue transfer technique I do. Have you ever used it?
If you're interested check out some of the pieces I've done with it - www.nikkiyeager.com
Hope all is well :) Thanks again!!
Posted by: Nikki Yeager | January 11, 2010 at 08:38 PM