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  • Get inspired to create
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  • Mini-book Giveaway and Free Stencil Project!
    I am beyond thrilled to bring you a guest edit today from my dear friend (and fellow co-author), Linda Blinn. Linda has more energy and ideas than a gaggle of college freshmen and you are definitely in for a treat. When Linda heard that we were hosting
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors September/October 2010
    Meet Ann Wood and her whimiscal creatures. Learn easy faux silkscreaning and try our paper and plaster pumpkins. Experiment with Steampunk style earrings and play with texture and layers. Create a painted fedora with the Crafty Chica and celebrate the Day of the Dead with Michael deMeng. Take a look
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  • Check out our new artisan art!
    The Artisan Search 2011 continues… Looking to find new and exciting art and artists, Cloth Paper Scissors has challenged artists to send us their best art in one of five categories: Mixed-media Stitch , Art Journal and Book Making , Printmaking
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  • Summer Art Journaling Prompts and Preview
    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
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  • Inspiring ways to use new products
    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
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  • Art Journaling Winner!
    Congratulations SUDUKC! You’re the winner of the Summer Art Journaling contest. Please email your mailing address to me at jmason@interweave.com by July 30th to receive your prize!   Thanks to everyone for your fantastic Art Journaling Prompt ideas
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  • 10 Unique Art Journal Prompts for Summer
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  • We Want You! Show Us Your Art Mojo
    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
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors July/August 2010
    Learn how to make mixed-media pendants with musling. Read about Susan Lenart Kazmer's love of found objects and jewlery. Discover new ideas for Guerrilla Art. Travel to Paris with the Oiseaux sisters. Get the basics on metal embossing. See the results of our "Pendant Swap" Reader Challenge
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  • You Could be Our Next 2011 Artisan
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  • Hurrah, the Time to CREATE is here!
    I'm so excited to finally announce that registration is open ! I know you've all been waiting patiently to see what we had in store for our first-ever CREATE with Cloth Paper Scissors art retreat. The website has all the information you need to
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  • Layering it on for Mom
    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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  • Cloth Paper Scissors May/June 2010
    Learn to layer texture with Katy Monnot in the Workshop. Read about Robert Maloney's love of texture in the Artist Profile. Discover a beginner's guide to assemblage and try 3-D printmaking. Spend some time exploring text as a collage element with Lisa Occhipinti, and experiment with a Adrienne
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  • How to Make a Good Impression
    Sometimes you have to get a little extreme to really make an impression. Sometimes it takes a hammer. After getting some new tools and supplies into the office, I couldn't wait to try them out. We have brass blanks (pre-cut brass shapes) from Vintaj and Letter Punches, in our store, that play so
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  • More Places to Find Inspiration
    I'm always on the look out for more inspiration especially when I'm ready to embark on a new series or when I'm immobilized by the possibilities (which happens a lot). I've recently fallen in love with watching Quilting Arts Television for new ideas, tips and tricks to try in my mixed
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  • Download Your Free eBook: 4 Mixed-Media Art Techniques
    To help you create better backgrounds for your mixed media art, we’re offering you some of our best art ideas for textured backgrounds in a FREE eBook: 4 Mixed-Media Art Techniques presented by Cloth Paper Scissors ® . In this free, downloadable eBook, you’ll get four different approaches
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors March/April 2010
    Silk screening made easy; Artist Profile: Leo Sewell; Artist to Artist: Erin Zamrzla; Graffiti Paper Quilts; Burned Glue & Paper; Embracing the Blues; "Celebrate Birthdays"; Books with a Repurpose; Mixed Adventures of a Superhero Series; Birdscapes; Add Dimension with Wood; "Mother
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors July/August 2009
    Art-on-the-go; mixed-media painted and collaged squares; whimsical images: combine a photo, fabric, paint, stitch, and more; metal collage; watercolor travel journal; artful journaling with found papers; garage-turned-studio space; Life's a Beach challenge results; new columns Muse Flash and Homework;
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors May/June 2009
    10 Tips for Selling Your Art; Market Fresh Veggies from Paper & Cloth; Playful painting - capture memories in 3-D; An orderly layout for collage; Make fun little characters with canvas, paint, and stitch; "Winter Holiday Stuffies" Reader Challenge; Mindful Recylcling; paint a portrait,
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors March/April 2009
    "Recycled Circles" - mixed media with paper, cloth, and stitch; Fickle Flowers; Printable cotton Collage; Recycling your world into art; A mini course in Extreme Visual Journalism; Creating Custom Paper for Collage - turn old pages into new papers; Creating with Metal; Transforming your drawing
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors July/August 2008
    Designing Fabric; Sketches on fabric; Mixed-Media approach to quilting; dyeing technique; Sub Urban Art - selective Rusting; Edges; Monoprinting with texture plates; Journal quilts; Spontaneous explorations in color; Re-create your sketchbook images on cloth; Edges; Goddess at the last minute with Robbi
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors January/February 2008
    " True Colors" Reader Challenge; home is where the art is; create print-like quality with a hnt of mystery; repurpose overalls into a personalized apron; create an eye-popping still -life; make small mixed-media heart quilts; paint, collage, stitch paper quilts; design papers with rubbing plates
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