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Visual Chronicles: The No-Fear Guide to Creating Art Journals, Creative Manifestos and Altered Books

Visual Chronicles: The No-Fear Guide to Creating Art Journals, Creative Manifestos and Altered Books

by Karen Dinino, Linda Woods

AS SEEN ON "THE VIEW"! The real news of our lives is not in newspapers. We must chronicle our own adventures and achievements, our brilliant observations and our comic relief, our best friends and our greatest embarrassments. Visual Chronicles is all about YOU: your dreams, your memories, your daily routines, your greatest loves and your secret pet peeves. It's all about getting to know yourself... (more)

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

by Sabrina Ward Harrison

"We are all facing choices that define us. No choice, however messy, is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it is only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself. This book is my life in progress." Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself is the creative expression of one young woman's attempt to... (more)

Artists' Journals and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages

Artists' Journals and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages

by Lynne Perrella

Creative souls want and need a special place for recording and decoding their interior world a place to download all their creative ideas, a place to remember the events of the day, or a place to doodle, to draw, and to dream. This book is an engaging and intimate glimpse into the personal pages of a wide variety of select artists and journal keepers whose works not only provide visual delight and inspiration but... (more)

The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery : Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More

The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery : Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More

by Karen Michel

Altered art is hot. It's a current term that encapsulates all the layered, complex imagery used by artists who make altered books, keep artist journals, and do collage. The concept is even crossing into the scrapbooking world. This is the most comprehensive technique book published to date for creating altered imagery and covers a range from traditional art techniques to digital art techniques, showing how to... (more)

Altered Art: Techniques for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards & More

Altered Art: Techniques for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards & More

by Terry Taylor

A fast-growing craft trend, handled by experts. Choose an object—a cigar box, playing cards, an old album cover—and use it as a creative starting point to make beautiful and entirely new items to display and use: that’s “altered art,” and it’s the fastest-growing trend in the craft world today. Here is the first book to explore the full range of its possibilities, from turning a vintage board game into a... (more)

The Decorated Page: Journals, Scrapbooks & Albums Made Simply Beautiful

The Decorated Page: Journals, Scrapbooks & Albums Made Simply Beautiful

by Gwen Diehn

“Diehn opens up a new dimension—the artist’s vision of visual memories. Consider this a superscript above all other entries.”— Booklist . “Encourages those who hesitate to start in on the pristine pages of a nicely bound blank book.... Lively and interesting illustrations make this a good selection for public library collections.”— Library Journal.

The Decorated Journal: Creating Beautifully Expressive Journal Pages

The Decorated Journal: Creating Beautifully Expressive Journal Pages

by Gwen Diehn

This follow-up to the highly popular Decorated Page offers even more great ideas for beautifying a journal, more breathtaking photos to inspire, and more smart (and simple) ways to endow even the artistically timid with confidence. It simply brims with suggestions and instructions. Find out about the wealth of contemporary supplies, from papers and adhesives to paints, pens, and pastels. See how to create the... (more)

Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists (Quarry Book)

Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists (Quarry Book)

by Lynne Perrella

Mixed media techniques have come to forefront again, with artists in every field combining materials and effects to create journals, altered art, collage pieces, memory art and more. With all the creative experiementation developing at such a fast pace, it is pertinent to know how various techniques and combinations work and whether they are right for your latest project. Alphabetica illuminates new techniques... (more)

Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking

Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking

by Holly Harrison

Today more than ever, you can’t judge a book by its cover. Why? Because two of the hottest new trends in bookmaking are pushing the boundaries of what it means to write, read, and experience a book. This exciting guide explores the creative processes behind altered books when artists make their own distinctive mark on an already published workand collaborative journals in which many artists come together to... (more)

Alter This!: Radical Ideas for Transforming Books Into Art

Alter This!: Radical Ideas for Transforming Books Into Art

by Alena Hennessy

Take this book and…remake it! Introducing the first guide that not only teaches kids the basics of altered art, but is the very material for creating those personal pieces. That’s because this volume, along with dozens of others, is an art project just waiting to happen. With irreverent text and beautiful photography—and techniques such as stitching, image transferring, and cutting— Alter This! shows children how... (more)

Wreck This Journal

by Keri Smith

For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal , an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them). Acclaimed illustrator Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in "destructive"... (more)

True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals

True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals

by Kathryn Bold

"Sort of like Mardi Gras, where there are daytime parades, and nighttime reveleries, and pauses for banquets, and full-dress balls, and promendades - but it's ALL Mardi Gras."

Designing With Texture

by Erin Trimble

Discover how the creative application of innovative materials and techniques not only affects the texture of the page—but touches your heart and memory as well. Using fabrics, cardboard, metal, and even glass, you’ll see how textures add richness and depth to scrapbook pages and paper crafting projects. Projects include photo cards, keepsake bags, and more.

The Art & Craft of Handmade Books: New Ideas and Innovative Techniques

The Art & Craft of Handmade Books: New Ideas and Innovative Techniques

by Shereen LaPlantz

“LaPlantz has created another whammo release.”— RubberStampMadness. “More than 25 patterns...focus on seven different types of books, from a simple...accordion fold to the complicated recessed skewer binding. Everything is here...as well as explanations of such techniques as embossing.”— Booklist.

The True and the Questions: A Journal

by Sabrina Ward Harrison

In her books Spilling Open, Brave on the Rocks, and Messy Thrilling Life, Sabrina Ward Harrison shared her thoughts, fears, hopes, and joys through vibrantly illustrated journal entries. Her new work, The True and the Questions, invites readers to allow themselves to "spill open" and create their own illustrated journal, and leaves plenty of space for them to do so. Sabrina's gorgeous art and moving text are... (more)

AlternaCrafts: 20+ Hi-Style Lo-Budget Projects to Make

AlternaCrafts: 20+ Hi-Style Lo-Budget Projects to Make

by Jessica Vitkus

First came indie rock bands and indie movies. Now, thanks to Jessica Vitkus, the indie movement has reached the world of crafts, where traditional techniques such as knitting, mosaic, embroidery, metalwork, sewing, and collage are being used in brave new ways. With an emphasis on recycling, improvising, and making things from scratch, AlternaCrafts offers more than 20 projects that provide this newest... (more)

Pretty Little Things: Collage Jewelry, Trinkets, Keepsakes

Pretty Little Things: Collage Jewelry, Trinkets, Keepsakes

by Sally Jean Alexander

Whimsical and Elegant Projects from Well-Known Collage Artist Sally Jean Alexander *Shares 27 projects with 30 variations for additional inspiration *Uses vintage ephemera to create charms, vials, miniature shrines, and reliquary boxes *Features author Sally Jean Alexander’s signature style With Pretty Little Things, readers will find collage projects that exhibit a playful air and a sense of magic.... (more)

Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design

Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design

by Steve Dodds

Previously Announced. Recycle. Restore. Repurpose. This unique book inspires art, creation, and environmentalism with 50 projects that transform yesterday's trash into today's stylish and useful objects. Using found, discarded, and cast-off items as a foundation-from old computer cases, soda cans, and record album covers to foam packing-readers can fashion stylish clocks, end tables, frames, and much more.

Tim Holtz Distressables

by Tim Holtz

Techniques for aging, distressing, layering, patinas, collage, soldering, transfers, folding, painting, scratching, glazing, and more. Create your own terrific cards, jewelry, accessories, scrapbooks, and more.

The Book Book: Bringing Book Arts to Scrapbookin

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by Karen Dinino, Linda Woods

by Sabrina Ward Harrison

by Lynne Perrella

by Karen Michel

by Terry Taylor

by Gwen Diehn

by Gwen Diehn

by Lynne Perrella

by Holly Harrison

by Alena Hennessy

by Keri Smith

by Kathryn Bold

by Erin Trimble

by Shereen LaPlantz

by Sabrina Ward Harrison

by Jessica Vitkus

by Sally Jean Alexander

by Steve Dodds

by Tim Holtz