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Why make your own stamps, stencils, and silkscreens? Inquiring minds want to know! Of course we all love to learn new techniques and processes, but are there concrete reasons to invest the time in learning how to make your own tools? I think the answer is a loud-and-clear yes! And, thanks to Jane Dunnewold...
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Jenn Mason
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28 Jul 2010
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Filed under: art, create, text, Cloth, paper, press, books, Jane Dunnewold, printing, monoprint, carving, old books, three-dimensional art
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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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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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a.k.a. Guerrilla Art Hopefully you’re spending your summer learning something new with a book like Living Into Art, or a Cloth Paper Scissors DVD Workshop(TM). If you’ve read your July/August issue of Cloth Paper Scissors already, then you’ve already been introduced to Guerrilla Art in Fred Free’s fantastic...
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I was recently alerted to a local encaustic conference by Amy Stoner, one of our new DVD artists. In the spirit of an industrious beat reporter, I made the trek up to Beverly, MA for the fourth annual Encaustic Painting Conference and spent some time with Amy talking about her new DVD, Encaustic...
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Jenn Mason
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12 Jul 2010
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Filed under: collage, art, create, mixed-media, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, Workshop, painting, picture, encaustic
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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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Have you been following along with us and Dawn Sokol’s ‘Art Journaling: Pages in stages’ column in Cloth Paper Scissors ? We started the three part series in our May/June issue with painting. In our July/August issue we are covering collage, and coming up in the September/October issue we finish the...
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You may have been reading Cloth Paper Scissors for four months or four years. You know your way around rusted metal, ledger sheets, and image transfers with your eyes closed. You drink encaustic wax and eat peanut butter and gel medium sandwiches for lunch. You ARE mixed media. Hmm… Then why haven’t...
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Jenn Mason
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28 Jun 2010
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Filed under: stitch, collage, art, mixed media, mixed-media, metal, transfers, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, jewelry, assemblage, Printmaking, Book Making, gel medium, encaustic
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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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We are counting the days here at Cloth Paper Scissors Headquarters. We can’t wait to CREATE with you. August 25th-29th, is right around the corner and we’re pulling out all the stops for our first-ever art retreat, and setting the mixed-media world on fire with amazing instructors, a fabulous location...
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21 Jun 2010
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Filed under: sew, collage, art, mixed media, create, mixed-media, scissors, artist, Cloth, paper, jewelry, photo, workshops, Melanie Testa, Linda Blinn, Jane LaFazio, books, Book Making, creation, Zentangle, mosaic, portrait
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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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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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14 Jun 2010
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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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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