ATCs, Art Journals, Collage, Drawings, Journalings, Illustrated Blogs, Mail Art blogs - ah these are a few of my favourite things. I’ve tried to catergorise these by the predominant artform - but often it’s difficult!
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Creative Ideas & Inspiration from Arty Blogs
Blogs which provide inspiration, thought-provoking entries, challenges or ideas-
The Swirly Girl is Christine Miller. Go to her excellent website for lots of arty things, and her daily blogs are full of inspiration also.
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The author of Living Out Loud, this is Keri Smith’s blog. Check out her website also, for illustrations, articles on journaling and creativity.
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The famous Danny Gregory blog - author of several books on visual diaries, creativity - the blog contains so many resources for drawers and all artists alike.
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he Craft and Creativity Ezine, Artella, now has a newsblog
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Kari's blog was a thrill to discover. "A stay-at-home-moms guide to staying sane through creative expression! I do interviews with artists, crafty bits, scrapbooking, you name it!! "
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52 Projects is a site dedicated to thinking outside the craft. It's all about projects and project-making. Project ideas, projects to create, projects to check out, and projects to participate in.
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Loobylu is the personal web site of Claire Robertson - an illustrator and toy maker living and working in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
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The blog where you can meet the "Sisters on Sojourn," whose colorful mixed media journals and journaled "traveling shoes" really inspire bright, expressive creations. Their book is out now!
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Karen Michel's blog shares many projects. She has authorered the book, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery.
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Art Journalist and altered photography.
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Deb Silva's blog - or one of them. Take a look at her links to all the others also. You'l be occupied for hours.
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The creativie and art blog of Pamela Smart, who provides tech articles for the Creative Leisure news.
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Creative Inspiration from Non-Arty Blogs
Yep, they may not be crafty, but these blogs can provide ample inspiration if you look-
Fantastic photos from furniture and design ranges
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Great resource lists to find creativity and personal inspiration from this blog
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From the old dendrites blog, this weblog is designed to challenge your thinking. The Dendrites blog got around. Check the one previous here http://dendrites.typepad.com/, and before that - here - http://talentdevelop.com/dendrites.html
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By Don the Idea Guy - this blog contains many interesting resource links for ideas.
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"IdeaFlow - A Discussion about Innovation and Creativity"
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A famous and award winning blog on many bloglists - I have no idea what it's about, other than the subheading sums it up - "A Directory of Wonderful Things"
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Creativity Tips, Quotes and Ideas
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The news blog fo PigPog Com, a site which deals with creativity of all types, via a Creativity Wiki
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Jill Badonsky's blog - author of "The 9 Modern Day Muses (and a bodyguard)"
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Mixed-Media & Altered Art Blogs
These blogs have regular postings of artwork projects by the artists concerned. Mixed-media, Altered, Mail-Art, Gluebooks, Visual Journals ...-
The blog of a Canadian mixed-media artist.
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Melissa Huber provides photos of all kinds of mixed media projects through this blog, with links through to SSReflections,where Melissa has Melissa's Mess Hall area for technique projects.
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Great mixed media artwork posted onto this blog.
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This is the online weblog for Tracy Roos, with links to her online studio, and postings of current projects.
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Dina's blog, with postings of her latest work, and some interesting links to books and other websites.
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Celine Navarro’s Blog, The Green Frog Studio - fantastic art, links, and a great read.
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All kinds of media used here, in Sharon Wisely’s blog
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The blog of Melanie Komisarki - a mixed media artist and owner of the Navylane Studio.; co-founder of the Inspire Me Thursday challenge blog.
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The blog of Amber Gibbs
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Visual Journals and Glue books with dabblings in other mixed media art.
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Great gluebook entries and other paper craftings
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Arika Cloud blog - journals, altered art, the odd scrapbook layout too.
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Doña Bumgarner's blog - check out her Eggplant Art Studio also.
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Altered arts etc, and she now has a website, www.crazyartgirl.com
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The journal from Glitz-Oh.com - an altered book artist, Corinne Stubson.
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Altered art by Vera Lucia Emerim. Altered books, card holders,albums, ATC, collage and other mixed media artworks
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Great art by Linda Koch
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The Artist Trading Card search on the Live Journal community
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Effie's blog - from drawings, collage to altered projects
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Lisa Vollrath's online journal, with links to her own website, www.lisavollrath.com - altered art, decos, art dolls, ATCs...
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Kathleen Marie Pequignot's blog with visual journals, and illustration challenges uploaded.
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A cartoon illustrationist, TomD's blog contains quite a few illustrations of course.
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Kathy Jone's weblog - many drawings, and other artwork also.
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Collage and Photomontage
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Collage, Photomontage, Assemblage
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A Mailart blog by a Belgium artist.
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A sifter blog, full of excellent examples of Mail Art. This is by Micheal Leigh of Cheshire, England
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Ruud Jaansan provides the Internation Union of Mail Artists - and puts up the mail art sent to him on this blog. Great list of Mail Art blogs linked to also
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Mick Boyle’s Mail Art blog. It operated similarly to the Iouma blog, in that people can send him all their mailart, which can be traditionally posted or created digitally.
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A site where people mail in their handmade mail art or postcards, with a secret they want to share. Some secrets might be a bit graphic for some people’s liking, but the mail art is exciting and gutsy also.
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The online diary of Micheal Leigh, from the UK. My life as an artist, a collagist, a rubber stamper, a networker, a dad , a letter writer and a postcard maker.
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A Collage collobaration blog
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Check this personal blog out for all sorts of mixed media projects, including scrapbooking
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Lia's Mixed Media Blog -"I am a mom of 4 who stays sane by creating mixed media art. I create art tags and post these on my blog weekly. I also post art journal pages, vintage photo's and thoughts on what I'm working on".
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A group blog by a bunch of UK Scrappers into altered art. Challenges and pics put up regularly.
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Don't miss this blog, or the artist for that matter.
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Belle's mixed media artist blog.
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The blog of Misty Mawn, the co-founder of Inspire Me Thursday
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Deb Silva's Art Journal blog
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Deb Silva's Altered Books blog
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Woolen & Textile Craft Blogs
Knitting, Textile, Sewing and other Blogs-
Knitting Blog, withlots of links to other knitting blogs, and knitting websites.
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The hand-painted art quilts are absolutely fantastic on this blog by Judy Coates Perez. Beautiful.
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This is a right laugh - a blog based on the 50s - 70s sewing patterns and other slightly humourous crafts.
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A Bernina Brat's Quilting and Sewing Blog, by CJ Tinkle.
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General Crafty Blogs
These blogs delve into many categories of arts and crafts.-
Sharon B's blog, with many different categories of crafts, from visual journals to quilts. The links from this blog are a great resource also.
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Collage, Drawings, all kinds of creative arts by Italian Princess
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Crafting Podcast, running since June 2005.
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Collage, Mixed Media, Scrapbooks, Photoart - a blog for the artful crafter. Kelly Angard is a mixed-media artist, has written a scrapbooking idea book, and has a Collage blog also (linked below)
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Kelly Angard's collage blog, with work again in mixed media such as ATCs etc. This was originally a companion blog to her book, "Creative Collage for Scapbooks"
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"artings and musings, including painting, drawing, collage, gluebooks, and photography"
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Knitting, and Artist Trading Cards and Altered Artwork
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The livejournal for Marilyn Scott Waters. The blog contains her projects and events, but check her website also, for some fantastic printable paper toys.
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Il Bloggo by ihanna provides interests in all sorts of crafts, from knitting to papercrafts. Hannah has some great scanned graphics etc on this blog also. An excellent blog by a mixed media artist also into crochet and sewing.
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Meggiecat provides lots of interesting links for crafty types on her own blog.
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Brand new in Feb '06, this colloborative group crafty blog has lots of content, links and categories to search under.
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A crafty blog and podcast - the subheading on this one is "Your guide to living a long and crafty life"
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The UHU Project Blog - as it says. Take a look at this for many crafting projects created using some form of UHU glue.
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Jen Leheny's craft blog covers loads of different things that I make including scrapbooks, art, visual journal, collage, beading, sewing, toy making, etc etc.
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Ilustrated, Sketch & Drawing Blogs
Watercolours, Line-Drawings, Pencil, and Other Drawing Blogs-
The famous Danny Gregory blog - author of several books on visual diaries, creativity - the blog contains so many resources for drawers and all artists alike.
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As it's entitled, this blog contains daily postings of sketches and drawings.
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A sketch blog from the Netherlands
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Michael is a tea drinker, artist, blogger and recovering ME/CFS sufferer living on the west coast of Wales. He also publishes a book, and is the owner of The Drawing Club - an online website to teach - yes, drawing.
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The Drawing Club is a blog about drawing founded by artist and blogger Michael Nobbs. Artists and drawing enthusiasts from around the world blog here regularly.
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An illustrated blog, with great links to others. Aside from Karen Winter's main blog, take a look at the archives found under the link to Random Acts of Inkness
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An illustrated blog, this time from an artist in Kent, England, Nic Squirrel
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An illustrated blog by Nicolette Anderson
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The Illustration Blog - a colloborative blog with several artists.
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Some very kewl drawings on this one, by Violette Clark
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Tricia Harvey's sketchbook journal
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"Keeping the Web Beautiful--One Sketch at a Time..."
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Journal and Sketchpad.
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The illustrated blog of Dr F, who lives in Suffolk, UK
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Illustration Artist Heidi Schmidt's blog.
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Watercolour Blog, by Joan M Mas.
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the sketch / illustration blog of Niff & Sutter.
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An artist journal on the web with fully illustrated diary entries
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The website for artist and designer Kevin Cornell. Check out his sketchbook 1 also for a large gallery of sketch journal entries.
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Beautiful doodles / drawing blog by Paige Pooler.
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A bit odd, but this is an illustrated journal based on a pear a day, by artist Marie-Louise McHugh. Lovely pear paintings as metaphors for the emotions of the day.
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Digital Art Blogs
Illustrated Blogs, but they do it digitally!-
Maurie Manning's Digital Illustrated Blog.
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This Natural History Illustrator does it all by drawing on a Wacom tablet. And he shows some of it step by step.
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Deb Silva's Collagey Type blog
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Typography Blogs
Yep, blogs that talk about typography-
The typography blog by Mark Simonson Studio
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Microsoft has a blog - on typography
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A Journal of Typography.
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