Below you will find different categories for other creative arts and crafts links
- Altered Art, Mail Art and ATCs, Oh My!
- Visual or Art Journals
- Other General Craft Sites
- Art Sites, Online Zines etc
- Art Dolls
- Yahoo Groups for the Artsy Fartsy of us all
- Rubber Stamping
- Drawing
- Papercrafts
Also, don’t forget to check out the many blogs that are used for mixed media artwork, by individual artists and groups. I have several favourite Art Blog links on Scrapability.
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Altered Art, Mail Art and ATCs, Oh My!
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Kathy Wasilewski's site, with links to The Book Artist Zine, and several picturetrail photo galleries of altered books, decos, handmade books, and scrapbook pages.
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A fabulous site , take a look at all the how to articles Lisa puts up, for altered books, ATCs, mailart, and even some normal papercrafts like iris folding or background chalking.
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Deco Nation is a Yahoo Group run by Lisa Vollrath. Nice files, instructions, and explanations of the Deco arts.
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Kristi also has online classes available on ABs, or collage.
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A kit club, but for altered books. The gallery is nice.
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Primarily a magazine subscription site, there is a monthly bonus online project which might be of interest.
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A members only area for tips and online classes, but there are some articles and galleries available to non members.
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Gallery of Altered Books, Decos, Collage, and other Artforms
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The Creative Postcard Club is for designers, illustrators and students to promote their wares via postcard designs. The postcards created in these round robin challenges are posted up onsite, and provide some inspirational artwork.
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A forum group with gallery of altered artwork - altered cigar boxes, and altered CDs are some themes.
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How to alter a cd.
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Elizabeth Badurina's site, with copious articles, galleries, and publications you can buy. Purchase her little zines on altered books etc - she's fantastic.
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This site provides access to a book, and some ideas towards creating 5 x 8 inch decks of collaged cards on your own personality. Some nice collage thoughts.
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The personal site of Karen Hatzigeorgiou, where she puts up her personal altered books projects, and collages.
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A commercial site for Wanda Montgomery, who sells Altered Book Kits, however the gallery may give you some ideas.
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Another site which runs kits of the month, and a great gallery for inspiration.
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A store front for craft and collage sheets etc, but there is also a lot of ATC swaps going on, a message board, and some fine pictures of craft projects.
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Great introduction to ATCs, including a link to Mirkwood Studios to make an ATC box to hold them in.
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An online community encyclopedia on Mail Art. There's a lot of info here.
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My thanks to Janet who shared this link during a Mail Art class. There are so many links on this page - you could spend hours looking around the web.
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The personal site of Celine Navarro, with beautiful galleries of ATCs and Art Journals.
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Loads of links to lots of collage artist sites etc
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Monthly online zine, featuring articles on mixed media arts. Check out the listing and projects.
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Art Journalest extroidanaire. This is a truly inspirational site.Ah, and those collage sheets - giveme, giveme, giveme!
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A talk radio station broadcast on all sorts of art (mixed, altered, collage - you name it) - and the broadcasts are archived on the web for you to listen to.
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Art Journal images, and ATCs can be found at Karen's site.
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This is a search link, but showing a lot of interesting links to Mail Art artists and their websites.
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A good resource website to check out, including a personal blog on mailart, and journal.
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A colloboration of collage artists who sell through Ebay and other outlets and promote their art. Gallery, mail list, and activities on site.
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A definitive website on mailart - what it is, how to find it...
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From collaged ATCs to Clay items - Sharon uses many mediums.
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New Altered Arts Forum for the UK, commenced Jan06
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A cool site to check out, by Nancy Baumiller. Nancy sells a few collage sheets, swaps ATCs, and in particular I like the art journal pages she has for sale via this website. Check out the gallery for some inspiring altered art journals.
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Other General Craft Sites
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Craft Ideas is an American site for some general crafting magazines. A few tips and projects here.
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Hundreds of projects, patterns and instructions for kids crafts
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Look under projects to find all kinds of crafts. You have to register for these, but scroll down to find the free stuff.
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Not only does this Magazine now make a supurb scrapbooking magazine, but the website crafts section is worth checking out also.
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The authors of a few How-to Make Popups Books have a website with Quicktime movies of creating popups on cards, and some downloadable popup patterns in pdf format.
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Check out this website for links to various projects, or just enjoy the funkiness of this one. The code of ethics on the front page are a favourite of mine, also.
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Lots of links to various craft categories including paper arts (with ATCs) and Scrapbooking.
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Forums on just about every craft, with interesting completed projects by many. The whole site is anti cutesy crafts, and has a slightly anarchic kick to it, IMHO. Great site.
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Punk chic crafts at it's best - great community / forums and blogs attached for the members.
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A colloborative crafting site - there is a great community board (Glitter) and a group blog (Glimmer) - leaning towards alternative DIY stuff, as they say on their About Page.
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Crafts from candle and soap making, to jewelery and beading or computer or nature crafts. Projects, book and other reviews. Message boards for each craft also.
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A new site, with a lot of categories - from candlemaking to scrapbooking.And yep, they'e even got a digital scrapbooking section.
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Art Sites, Online Zines etc
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Fabulous artwork can be found here, including free vintage images, journals, mini albums. Used to be free, but the site owner is now requesting a minor payment to keep the site up and running.
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Tera talks "Creativity" but has many articles written around journaling ideas, circle journals, visual journals etc
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An online zine (also a great paper zine) and community for creative artists. Some great e-books are available here also, to inspire your creativity.
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This online gallery is full of fantasy images, fairy tales and beautiful images to inspire your creativity - if you particularly love fantasy, then you'll love this site.
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Keri is an illustrator, has published books on creativity and journaling, and a great website - check out the articles on creating, and links to made up and real blogs.
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A fantastic online art zine, published by Christine Cox aka The MetalChick of ARTitude Zine. Christine is also the owner of Volcano Arts.
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Visual or Art Journals and Sketch Journals
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Website dedicated to pursuing personal sketching for visual art journals, travel journals and the like. The Trumpetvine Sketch journals are available free as PDF downloads from here.
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Check out the craft section for some ideas. In particular, there is a section on using Sakura pens for Visual Journals
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Art-E-Zine has lots of links and articles on many different crafts, including resin art in bottle caps or tea lights.
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For 36 weeks an art journal was sent randomly between 2 Brooklyn and 2 Belfast Art Journelers. Each only had a few days to complete their entry, before posting it on. This is the result.
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A flip type book showing 98 pages of drawings and journal entries.
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The sketchbook gallery of a UK artist and designer, Kevin Cornell. Flip the pages, turn them upside down. Nice sketches and site.
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Art Dolls
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Lovely gallery of soft type Art Dolls - some fantastic fantasy figures
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Pindolls, and others
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Idea books, a doll, bits and baubles - order online. However, if ordering into the UK, watch out for customs on stampington boxes.
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Yahoo Groups for the Artsy Fartsy of us all
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Like it says, a group to discuss altered books. This group has been long-running, and has a fine files collection of other links to some good art zines etc.
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A group which runs from the art-e-zine website - the files and links in here are well worth the participation. Very inspirational on many different type of artwork.
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Sign up to join this yahoo mail list, and receive bulletins from many digital scrapping sites announcings promotions or competitions.
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A supportive Yahoo Group for Art Journals
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Active group, fantastic collages are put up in the files area, and the messages are active and supportive also.
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Rubber Stamping
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This is a UK site which makes some great arty rubber stamps. A nice gallery, and some great techniques and hints can be found on their site also.
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Drawing
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This is the UK site towards a campaign to get everyone drawing over the country - specifically a Big Draw is held every October in various centres.
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A gallery of past and present cartoon characters where the artist, Michael Paulus has provided a study of their skeletal structure. Check out the skeletons for Tweety Pie, a Powerpuff Girl, and Charlie Brown amongst many others...
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Stunning site, the personal gallery of an artist who has used pencils, flash technology and music to produce an eiry gallery.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art provides techniques lessons for such things as hatchin, chalks, charcolas and pen and ink.
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An online drawing programme to have fun with. This one features colloboration with your friends, a grid background if you wish, and several different tools. Of course, you can save, print or send your creation once finished.
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Another online drawing program to play with.
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34 pages of instructions on how to draw cartoon art. Like a workshop, but on the web!
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The traditional way is described, and then you can download a dingbat font to create knotwork from your keyboard! Full tutorials for both methods.
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About com's drawing and sketching portal is as comprehensive as expected. Numerous resources, lessons and links.
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The website supporting the now famous drawing book. Some information available here.
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Yes, the thing shakes when you erase it. Don't make a mistake then.
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Over 250 different pages of tips on here, from eye drawing tips to how to draw a plane.
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Some tutorials online for drawing the human eye, a face and flower blossom.
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You have to log onto this collobroative drawing program, it's like a chat board. Once entered you'll find others drawing on the same sketch board as yourself.
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Paper Crafts
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Canon's site provides copious PDF downloads for printing and assembling several cute paper figurines or sculptures. Check out the dachshund and other animals for a start.
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PDF files for printing and assembling some wonderful paper figurines - from motorcycles to endangered animals, and seasonal prints as well.
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Beautiful paper toys - in pdf format to print out and make up. Find little boxes, a tooth fairy gazebo and all sorts of lovely paper toys here.
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