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Collage Soup Garden Books with Tiffany Sharpe

January 31, 2025 By Christine Faith Art Leave a Comment

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How Does Your Garden Grow Collage Soup A collage, journal and scrapbook treasure trove of cut and glue images for arts & crafts: A book of 165 fancy collage papers to cut up, tear up, and stick on. I have looked at these Collage Soup books several times but haven’t purchased one but now, one […]

Filed Under: Adult Activity Books, Art Classes, Mixed Media Art, Tutorials Tagged With: Art Journaling, collage, Mixed Media

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How to Use Stencils in Mixed Media Art

December 1, 2024 By Christine Faith Art Leave a Comment

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Stencils have always intimidated me, probably because the decor fad of the 80’s when I bought my first home was to stencil things on your walls, and they had to look perfect! I tried them a few times and they were always crooked or not filled in all the way, or the edges looked too […]

Filed Under: Art Supplies, Mixed Media Art, Tutorials Tagged With: Mixed Media, Tamara Laporte, Tim Holtz

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How to get white in your coloring book pictures

September 1, 2024 By Adult Colorist 4 Comments

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Which white pencil, pen, crayon, mark-making device should I use to make areas of my project white? That’s one of the most asked questions in our Facebook group so I figured I should give you all my favorite white methods. White Pencils Of course, you have a white pencil in your set so one way […]

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Using Watercolor in your Adult Coloring Books

August 5, 2024 By Adult Colorist 2 Comments

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Can I use watercolor in my adult coloring books? Many colorists are new to art and coloring books for adults provide a wonderful way to tap into their creativity and inner artist, while other colorists come to the books with an extensive art background specializing in watercolor and immediately want to be able to use […]

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Top Hand Lettering Art Supplies & Promo Videos

July 17, 2024 By Christine Faith Art Leave a Comment

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hand lettering 101 for adults

You’ve decided you want to start hand lettering items in your home and office and making the world a prettier place to read. It’s a fun and relatively inexpensive hobby and will, in the end, save you money as you can create your own decor and create invitations and cards by hand showing your friends […]

Filed Under: Art Supplies, Mixed Media Art, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials Tagged With: art supplies, Lettering

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Coloring Backgrounds Tutorials

August 13, 2021 By Adult Colorist Leave a Comment

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We often see amazing creations from those expert colorists in the coloring groups on Facebook and wonder how in the world they could make a simple coloring page look like a work of art. Backgrounds are the magic sauce. Below we gathered several background tutorials to try in your adult coloring books to really make […]

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