Have you heard the news? We have two exciting announcements. The first is our brand new look for your favorite mixed-media art resource, Cloth Paper Scissors magazine. The content of the magazine hasn’t changed, but we’ve updated the design to create an exciting new experience. We added more of what you love: texture, color, depth,…
Discover ways to add stitch to your mixed-media artwork with the March/April 2016 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors, which has been newly redesigned! Create a sewn garland, make an accordion collage book, and learn how to manipulate fabric with stitch. Also, make faux porcelain jewelry and go on an art journal adventure. From Jeannine Stein, in…
These small change purses/treasure keepers were inspired by the freestyle patchwork patterns made by Linda Willis in the January/February 2015 magazine article. I belong to a group on Facebook called Art Abandonment. We make artwork of any kind and abandon them anonymously around the world. Check us out.
I used dark denim for the base, and burlap for the background. The roof is a scrap of houndstooth fabric, the door is red felt, and the house white cotton. The windows were cut from decorative paper, to which I added light blue paint and drew the panes with a silver permanent marker. The grass…
Her face is fashioned from craft felt. Strips of recycled t-shirt fabric are hand-hooked into burlap cloth – much as one would hook a rug – to create her tresses. The background fabric is a portion of unbleached muslin onto which I write during my morning meditation process. The muslin is heavily machine-stitched to a…
In my Art piece I used a paper bag, card stock, circa picture 1940's, jute, weaved ribbon, cotton cloth ribbon, string, chiffon ribbon, yarn, acrylic paint, soft jersey recycle shirt, sparkles, tacky glue and a sharpie. I used a hand single stitch, a double stitch and machine running stitch .
Indigo shibori dye base, hand embroidery, machine embroidery metallic threads, crochet, hand tinted cloth laminated (lumpy rock), resin (water on shell), beading.
Hand dyed cotton (Sharpie and alcohol) Hand made felt. Cotton embroidery threads, regular cotton. Machine and hand stitched. Wadding and heavy cotton backing.
japanese fabrics, vintage coins, stencilled and stamped images, acrylic paint, broderie perse applique, free-motion stitching, gold and variegated threads, couching and 3D applique
This artwork was created in many layers and used many materials. The background started out with a pair of old jeans, gesso, ripped pages from and old book and used tea bags. White accents were added by printing a hand-carved stamp with gesso and drawing white leaves with Sakura Souffle pen over the tea bags.…
