Category: Book and Paper arts

Sites worth bookmarking: Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From Old Books


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Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From Old Books is a site that will be of interest to those who are interested in the book and paper arts or do mixed media collage pieces. There is also loads of design inspiration. The site houses over 2,630 high-resolution free images which have …

What do think about Art Journals?

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  What do you think about Art Journals? Over on Quin Creative, there is a touching and thoughtful story about Quins Fathers Art Journals. It prompted a few thoughts or perhaps it is better described as a reaction from me.   To be honest I had not really thought about …

Make your own Paper cuts


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A tutorial for this delightful popup card from Molly Lee Cards

Make a maze book


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I stumbled across this tutorial on How to Make a Maze book written by Jaine Drake of Making Mini Scrap books. If you look at the way the book is constructed the pages have little pockets in them. I thought they would be great to hold ATCs! Just a thought …

Gift Presentation and Gift Wrap


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Often it is the finishing touches to a hand made gift that can really influence how it is percieved. If a handmade item is presented well it can shift it from the negative connotations of homemade to positive associations of hand made. I want to add, I don’t see the …

Bonefolder


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I was poking around the net looking for book binding eye candy and inspiration because I am making some hand made books as gifts I realised I had missed the last issue of Bonefolder (vol 5 no1) . This journal is way above the normal standard or a free ezine …

Musing over Bonefolder

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Over the weekend I had the chance to browse the latest issue of Bonefolder. This issue (Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2008) is excellent,  and well worth popping over to the site and downloading a copy. Muriel Prince’s article Women and Books: Contemporary book artists share their thoughts was of …