Category: Crafts

Get Crafty has an article on “How to Make a Zine”:http://getcrafty.com/read/craft/features/zine/index.html.

“Outside the Margins”:http://www.outsidethemargins.com/ has unmounted rubber stamp plates with images suitable for journalling.

Learn2Stamp is a website that has a series of tutorials on a variety of rubber stamping topics. For example, under backgrounds, there is a useful article on how to make “Faux Handmade Paper”:http://www.learn2stamp.com/paper/paper01.shtml. I saw this technique demonstrated at my stamping club a while ago.

This Native American Swap of carved art was taken from the Native American swap of the Carving Consortium. Also check out the other items in the menu at the top of the page. I have some other soft block carving related information at my “Carving Topics”:http://www.stardel.com/homecarv.htm page.

Now What? emerging directions in multimedia is a free online magazine. Volume 5 starts a tutorial series on Computer Art and has another article on the elements of design. This is a great magazine, despite an eccentric navigation system.

Kristi has earth mandalas made from photographs using a similar process to some I made a few months ago. Kristi, a Colorado artist, also has information about carving, altered books, and art journals.

Book Binding Models is a collection from the University of Iowa of various styles of book binding such as the early codex binding and monastic manuscript binding.