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This Just In Whether it’s a product, a tool, or a storage item, we have all used our things in imaginative ways to help make our art spaces or our art our own. A child’s lunchbox repurposed to corral ribbons, a vintage hutch storing paints, everyday items used as stamps—artists strive...
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Barbara Delaney
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19 Jul 2010
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Filed under: art, create, Inspiration, mixed-media, text, canvas, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, jewelry, assemblage, magazine, photo, inspiring, studios, press, fluid acrylics, encaustic, cardstock, card stock, repurposed, junk, handmade paper
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Hi all! I’m so glad to be here at Cloth Paper Scissors ! As the online editor for Artist Daily , this is my first opportunity to pop in at CPS , but I hope it is the first of many. One of the things I love about the artistic process is that we all share the need to put our creative energy into...
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Jenn Mason
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7 Jul 2010
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Filed under: sew, collage, art, mixed media, create, Inspiration, CPS, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, magazine, painting, thread, sketching, sculpture
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The dog days of summer... sigh. Though that may have a negative connotation for some, to me it means longer days and more time to accomplish some creative projects that were put on hold earlier in the year. But how do you fit it in with all of the other fun things you have lined up this summer...
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Jenn Mason
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5 Jul 2010
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Filed under: art, create, Inspiration, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, inspiring, Jane Dunnewold, ATCs, sculpture
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The summer calendar is filling up fast! And one not-to-be-missed event is the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, California, July 23-25 (Preview Night July 22). Yes, it is a quilt show, but mixed-media artists would be totally remiss to overlook this amazing event. Not only can you get all kinds...
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Barbara Delaney
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23 Jun 2010
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Filed under: art, create, Inspiration, mixed-media, metal, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, jewelry, studios, Workshop, workshops, Jane LaFazio, books, ATCs, charms
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This 1 48-page special issue features 30 outdoor and indoor studios, including a garage-turned-art-shed, a studio where they artist draws the architectural details right on the walls, and a candy-colored dye studio. Get an inside look at three studios makeovers, including our Editor's home studio...
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StudiosSummer 2010
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14 Jun 2010
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Filed under: art, Cloth, Paper, Mixed-Media, Dye, Scissors, Studios, Artist, inspiration, carving, home studio, Workshop, CREATE
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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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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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An Editor’s Learning Curve The best thing about working for Interweave is the exposure to all different art processes and media. The worst thing is that I am sometimes so focused on helping to curate the most amazing issue for you readers that I forget to stop and smell the creative “roses”...
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Jenn Mason
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24 May 2010
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Filed under: art, mixed media, Inspiration, mixed-media, text, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, magazine, photo, muse, discovery, sculpture
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Mixing Metal Into Your Art Every time I sit down in my studio to create art, I stop and think. What do I want to make today? What ideas have been floating around my head and want to be explored today? Sometimes I know exactly where I’m going, even if I don’t know what the final destination...
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Jenn Mason
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17 May 2010
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Filed under: collage, art, create, Inspiration, mixed-media, metal, technique, scissors, Cloth, paper, Letter, assemblage, photo, Workshop, wire
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Last week I posted a list of all the things I learned from the March/April Cloth Paper Scissors, and I issued a challenge. Many of you stepped up from the challenge and I hope you enjoyed the game! We have a WINNER! The winner of this contest is Kristine May ! Congrats, you’ve won a copy of Jeanine...
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Outside the Box with Jenn
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Jenn Mason
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10 May 2010
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Filed under: art, paper, found objects, Scissors, Cloth, inspiration, books, workshops, text, create, glue, Linda Blinn, stitch, junk, gesso
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Announcing the 2011 Artisan Search Every issue of Cloth Paper Scissors ® has amazing art submitted by our talented readers. This year we're spreading our net wider in search of the best mixed-media artists around and one of them might just be YOU. So get your muse in gear; set out your paints...
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Jenn Mason
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10 May 2010
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Filed under: stitch, collage, art, create, Inspiration, mixed-media, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, jewelry, assemblage, glue, Workshop, gel pens, Printmaking, muse, Book Making, Jane Dunnewold, Screen Printing, found objects, printing
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Textural Inspiration At this time of year, Nature puts on a glorious, colorful, textural display to help push us out of our winter doldrums and I am constantly drawn to it: the buds of various sizes, shapes, and colors on the trees; the plants bursting through the soil; the layers of green in the fields...
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Barbara Delaney
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3 May 2010
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Filed under: art, create, Inspiration, mixed-media, text, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, magazine, green, Workshop, Cloth Paper Scissors, Texture Transformation, Textural, ephemera, Paper Scissors, texture, Scissor
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With Mother's Day right around the corner, I was looking for some inspiration for gift making. I recently watched Beryl Taylor's Cloth Paper Scissors Workshop DVD, "Layer by Layer ," and came away with a lot of great ideas. Beryl has a way of making the simplest objects beautiful with...
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Jenn Mason
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28 Apr 2010
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Filed under: fabric paper, Inspiration, mixed-media, Jenn Mason, scissors, Cloth, paper, glue, fold, Rip, Workshop, press, Beryl Taylor, gesso, painting
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Studios is now on Twitter! You can follow us for news, tips, tricks, and the occasional treat at StudiosMagazine . I'd like to share something that I discovered while on vacation last week: The power of puttering. In each issue of Studios , we talk about how to get organized, de-clutter, improve...
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I love this time of year. I love watching the bulbs emerge from the cold earth. I love the random days of 70 degree weather amongst the drizzly days as April fades into May. Lots of exciting things are going on this time of year. My hometown Brookline Artists Open Studios group and all the other local...