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Creative souls want and need a special place for recording and decoding their interior world a place to download all their creative ideas, a place to remember the events of the day, or a place to doodle, to draw, and to dream. This book is an engaging and intimate glimpse into the personal pages of a wide variety of select artists and journal keepers whose works not only provide visual delight and inspiration but evidence the intensity and devotion that such personal journals invite

Transform old books into one-of-a-kind pieces of art with Altered Books Workshop! In this book, readers receive detailed instructions for the altered books--which combines bookmaking, collage, journaling, rubber stamping, papercrafting, stitching, embellishing and much more.

Find more than a dozen innovative techniques and step by step demonstrations of 12 different collage projects specifically designed to help them achieve the modern, eclectic collage effect.

Collage Discovery Workshop shows readers how to rust or antique any object for collage and includes four recipes for creating amazing collage backgrounds from peeling paper to textured paint and so much more.

The latest and best new techniques and cutting-edge materials used in this book.   It includes projects for everything from stamping in polymer clay to stamped metal jewelry, from using stamps to create an aged look on papers and letters to a stamped artist journal, and from stamped furniture to stamped glass charms.

Nostalgic themes and retro chic are influencing everything from stationary and giftware to craft products and publications.  Mary Jo McGraw  features keepsake card projects using family photographs, paper ephemera, vintage trinkets and retro styling. Readers will discover a range of paper crafting techniques and exciting projects.

This book contains 16 step by step instructions for creative projects using stamps in new ways.  They are fun and surprisingly easy.

This book provides creative instruction and inspiration through a wide range of projects from nine collage artists.  The artists provides creative instruction and inspiration through a wide range of projects from nine collage artists.

This reference book presents examples of finished paintings, as well as color charts that demonstrate color mixing as it applies to watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Learn how to choose and mix colors to produce the maximum color range from the minimum number of paints.

This book shows how various collage techniques can combine to help any crafter or artist improve their craft. The instructions tell how to create a personalized project, sharing necessary techniques while suggesting ideas for substituting personal themes and materials. The directions are a starting point to encourage the reader’s own artistic journey.

This book has been a great help in my adventure with paint.  It contains hands-on experiments with dozens of techniques and mediums in new and unconventional ways including: * Capturing whites with crayon and wax resist * Glazing and floating colors * Portraying the patterns of nature with sedimentation and precipitation * Loosening up with gesso painting and printing with plastic * Constructing a new piece of art from old work * Experimenting with three-dimensional assemblage.

This book is filled with a wide variety of techniques from the very simple to the very sophisticated it teaches you everything from how to get started to how to frame your finished piece. Itexplain how to make your own paper for collage and making collage "supports" or backgrounds using mediums, papers, and natural or found materials.

I love this series of books.  The pages and pages of color combinations are helpful when trying to focus the color effect I am trying to achieve. This is the oldest, being published in 1987.  

Published in 1997.  The color combinations are more up to date.  Photographs are included to show examples of how to use the color combinations.

This book contains specific examples of jewel tones.

This book contains specific examples of natural tones.

This book contains specific examples of pastel tones.

Arteffects  by Jean Drysdale Green

This book provides  wonderful samples (and more importantly directions) for creating effects and texture with five painting mediums.  I am using the ideas from this book for the backgrounds of my collages.

The Crafter's Complete Guide to Collage  by Amanda Pearce

Wonderful ideas and step by step instructions for 16 collage projects.  Great photographs for a variety of collage styles.