Describes techniques on creating personal pages using a variety of materials, including fabric, found objects, memorabilia, and fibers.

A follow-up to the popular Decorated Page , this title offers ideas for beautifying a journal, and features photos. It tells you about the wealth of contemporary supplies, from papers and adhesives to paints, pens and pastels. It also shows you how to create the actual journal from scratch, including a quick-to-complete Three Minute Pamphlet.

Containing numerous decorating techniques, this book will inspire readers to make personal journals, scrapbooks and albums into something really special.

Many people know they could benefit from the therapeutic act of journaling, but the dread of not knowing what to put on the page stops them. Finally, Visual Chronicles provides a no-fear guide to expressing one's deepest self with art and words. This book offers: Exercises that encourage readers to chronicle their thoughts and lives with painting, stamping, collaging, and writing; Friendly ...

ournals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life.

A graphic memoir from the man behind 'The Creative License' - who found salvation through art when his life was at its lowest point.

offers vital information on choosing fabrics and creating patterns through basic sewing techniques. After learning how to make various styles of fabric books, readers will learn embellishment techniques that include painting, writing, decorative stitching, machine and hand embroidery, print and transfer techniques, and quilting techniques.

An A to Z Technique Guide for Collage and Book Artists.

An inspirational handwritten and illustrated guide that teaches readers to open their lives to creativity and fulfilment by re-learning how to draw.

The Art of the Journal. Examples will provide would-be diarists with a host of ideas to enhance their own journals.

Contains a 'best of' collection of pages from the 1000 Journals Project, where 1000 blank journals were randomly circulated for people to draw, paint, collage, and otherwise fill the pages of the journals. The journals have reached all 50 states and 35 countries, drawing on a broad demographic of people, cultures, and perspectives.

Today the embroiderer's sketchbook, ideas book or journal is a work of art in itself. It includes initial concept material, design, colour work, textile samples, stitches and three-dimensional pieces. Beautiful in themselves, the embroiderer's sketchbook material can also be a jumping off point for larger works.

Filled with examples of complete works, the book shows a multitude of ideas for altering not only real photographs but image from other sources, such as magazines and postage stamps.

Revealing how to alter treasured books through collage, paint, layering, sewing and more, this title details the creative processes behind the craft and shows how artists can come together to select a topic, set up a project and ultimately publish or display their finished collaborative work.

A delightful, highly-personal account that showcases the rich diversity of Japanese culture.

This graphic novel is a sequel to author Kate T Williamson's 'A Year in Japan'. Cute, colourful naive drawings illustrate the gentle indignities of living at home an an adult.

Helping you learn the basic techniques and materials, this work takes you through different habitats (forest, water, prairie, meadow, field, roadside, mountain, desert, and human), for painting plants and animals. It also offers seven painting demonstrations that show readers how to portray these various settings in different compositions.

Includes cards that are divided into categories such as my body, other artists and new ways with text. This work includes an accompanying notebook that has blank space for the reader to record observations, as well as colourful artwork and quotes and prompts containing throughout the pages.

Stamp! is a comprehensive collection of stamp ideas, techniques, projects and inspiration, providing a complete sourcebook for all types of crafters looking to add stamping to their creative canon.

Working under the mandate Get up and make some art , this work features interactive prompts, projects, and ideas contributed by publishers and subscribers of well-known art zines. It contains articles, as well as cut-and-fold boxes, personality tests, doodle exercises, paper dolls, and more.