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Getting your Summer Journal up to Speed At the end of last month I shared 10 journal prompts for summer and asked you, our diligent and creative readers to send in your best ideas for jump starting a journal. I can’t post all 50+ terrific prompt ideas here, but I can share a few of my favorites in honor...
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A remarkable thing has happened since I reorganized and moved my studio space (documented in the Summer 2010 issue of Studios ): whenever I need something, I know right where it is. This phenomenon has come in very handy over the last month as I created decorations for my daughter's high school graduation...
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Cate Prato
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16 Jun 2010
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Filed under: collage, art, mixed-media, paper, glue, studios, craft, thread, assemble, cardstock, pins
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I just found out today that you can preorder the 2011 Cloth Paper Scissors Calendar that was created by 13 fabulous mixed-media artists who entered our Calendar Call for art last fall, which got me thinking about our Challenges. I wish I could send each of you a personal invitation and reminders about...
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Jenn Mason
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14 Jun 2010
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Filed under: stitch, art, create, Inspiration, mixed-media, text, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, magazine, glue, photo, found objects, gel medium, craft, Challenges, glazes
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Cover art by Sue Pelletier about this issue Make time for travel journaling and mixed-media jewelry. Artist Profile with Susan Lenart Kazmer, Go to Paris, Guerrilla Art, Pocket Scrolls, Plaster Collage Learn how to make mixed-media pendants with musling. Read about Susan Lenart Kazmer's love of found...
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CPS31
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10 Jun 2010
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Filed under: sketchbook, workshop, stitch, Collage, Art, Canvas, painting, Cloth, Paper, Mixed-Media, embellishment, Transfers, ATCs, dye, Sew, Pendant Swap, technique, clay, Monoprinting, Lesley Riley, create, inspiration, Scissors, quilts, Artist, collaged, Encaustic, Combine, stuffies, Muse, green, assemble, printing, Charm, Doll, Photo, Ephemera, Studios, portrait, wire, challenges, craft, Metal, Jane Lafazio, digital, Books, Linda Blinn, assemblage, Sketching, Lutradur, Jenn Mason, Fold, triptych, Glue, sketch, cyanotype, magazine, Collaboration, textural, text, printmaking, jewelry, found objects
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Making Art for Dad! Show Dad your smiling face (or that of your kiddos) for an easy peasy Father’s Day gift that he’ll keep for years to come. I came across this photo of me and my little girls (when they were still little ,) and I just had to find a way to save this special memento from the past as...
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CREATE with the Best August 25th-29th, 2011 Rosemont, Illinois Wow! Have you seen the instructor line up for Create? Did you get a look at the workshop schedule ? You can learn everything from no-stitch ATCs with Belinda Spiwak to monoprinting with Jeanne Moore . Or how about making a painted face canvas...
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Barbara Delaney
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12 May 2010
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Filed under: sew, stitch, collage, art, create, mixed-media, metal, Jenn Mason, canvas, artist, Cloth, paper, jewelry, Stamping, Workshop, Beryl Taylor, painting, Melanie Testa, Kelli Perkins, Linda Blinn, Jane Davila, ATCs, collaboration, printing, monoprinting, metallic paints, gel medium, surface design, craft, quilts, thread, sketching, altered books
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We're sending the Summer 2010 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors Studios off to press this week and I am both excited and relieved. Excited because this is one of our most colorful issues, with a wide variety of studios and a lot of new features thanks to our expanded format . Relieved because my studio...
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In the Studio with Cate
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Cate Prato
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13 Apr 2010
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Filed under: art, Cloth, Paper, mixed-media, craft, Scissors, Studios, photo, sculpture, wire, press, Jenn Mason
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So, I have been sorting, and sorting. I learned long ago in previous attempts to organize aspects of my life that I am not a categorize-to-the-nth degree sort of gal. For example, my recipes are lumped into four categories: desserts, main courses, appetizers, and vegetables. The "desserts"...
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My second day of inspiration. johl wrote on Fri, Feb 19 2010 7:53 PM How about "Springtime In Paris" prompt with the colors of baby blue, black and white, or pink, black and white? I'm ready for Spring, aren't you??? A post card from 'Paris" would be almost as good as going...
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It's time to come clean. My "studio" has been a mess for more than a year. And not just a "middle of a project mess," either, but a "can't walk without tripping, can't find anything, bar the doors and call 'Clean House'" mess. And, as long as we're...
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On the Cover: Artist Brenda Brink's studio in Indiana, resurrected from an old theater. about this issue This Super Special Issue features - 101 ways to store and organize your studio; Studio spaces for kids; Close-up, vibrant photographs of the best ways for storing and showcasing studio supplies;...
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I don't know about people who live in milder climates during the months of November through March, but where I live, in New England, this is about the time I start itching for Spring. It doesn't help that old Punxsutawney Phil always seems to see his chubby little shadow on Groundhog's Day...
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A lot of our readers and artists featured in Studios say they like clear storage, because they can see at a glance what's in it. You can find a wide variety of storage containers and systems at craft and organization specialty stores. But sometimes, the perfect storage container finds you. For example...
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Tell me, does a messy studio stress you out, or is it a sign of a creative mind at work? Can you create better with everything out in the open and available, or when you have everything unneccessary to the task at hand put away, with clean open spaces in front of you? I ask, because there's been...
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Cate Prato
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25 Jan 2010
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Filed under: sketchbook, Quilting, stitch, glue, fabric, art, papers, Cloth, Paper, craft, Scissors, Studios, create, inspiration, fold, rubber stamp
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I just got back from CHA, the Craft and Hobby Association convention, in Anaheim, CA. I will be posting a number of photos of some of the fun, creative, interesting, inspiring things that we saw over the next few days. I hope you'll come back and have a look see at what I've discovered and let...