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Gelli Printing Faux Chine Collé. Monograms & ciphers. Dannie's Designs: Stationery Box Video Tutorial. Back in June I offered this stationery box as my class project.

Dannie's Designs: Stationery Box Video Tutorial

It was such a hit that I decided to make a video tutorial. Normally when I post a video tutorial I also type out all of the dimensions, score lines, etc. Well, this project was so involved and has so many pieces that I decided to make a pattern for you to download. Stationery Box Patterns.pdf If you're having trouble downloading the pattern, hold your mouse above the link and RIGHT click on the link and select "save link as.

" As you may know, YouTube only allows you to upload a 10 minute video. Scroll below the videos to see pictures of the cards and tags in the box. Gelli Plate Printing Video by Samantha Kira Harding. Join our guest artist Samie (aka Journal Girl) for some art journaling inspiration!

Gelli Plate Printing Video by Samantha Kira Harding

Take the Test: How Well Do You See Color? It is generally believed that around 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men may have some degree of color blindness.

Take the Test: How Well Do You See Color?

When you consider the importance color plays in the products we buy, our aesthetic tastes, and the design decisions we make when we decorate, it's quite intriguing to consider that many of us may not perceive colors in the same way. X-Rite, a company that specializes in the technology and science of color (and who also owns the popular color system Pantone) offers a really interesting tool to test your "color IQ" online.

UPrinting.com: Download our Free Templates! If you’re having trouble setting up your own design files, then you can use our setup templates.

UPrinting.com: Download our Free Templates!

UPrinting’s print templates help you set up proper bleeds and margins for your single-page prints, folded cards, multi pagers, large format prints, and mailers. Categorized per product and file type, our print templates can be downloaded for free. Mandala Exchange. Happy Birthday Paper Cut Lantern Tutorial. I made this as a birthday card, but you could swap out the "Happy Birthday" section for another flowered section if you would like a lantern without a sentiment.

Happy Birthday Paper Cut Lantern Tutorial

How to make a paper cut lantern Download cutting file PDF or DXF or SVG. (Can you find the mistake on mine that I fixed for you? Hint: bird.) Cut on black lines. Cut translucent (vellum) paper to fit inside lantern. Decorative Arts: The grammar of ornament: Contents. The grammar of ornament Source: Jones, Owen, 1809-1874.

Decorative Arts: The grammar of ornament: Contents

The grammar of ornament London: Quaritch, 1910 2 p. l., 157 p. incl. illus., plates C (i.e. 111) pl. (part col.) 35 cm. Digital Library for the Decorative Arts. Turkish Map Fold with a Square Sheet of Paper : Green Chair Press Blog. Treasure Time. Buried Treasure - A Call for Collaborative Participants!

Treasure Time

So many blogs...so little time. With so many wonderful art blogs to follow, it is difficult to always find the time to keep up with every new post -- let alone have the time to visit the posts that were put up before you discovered each blog. So...four years ago I started an annual treasure hunt. Art Research. Canon Explains Exposure. A Little About Exposure: Exposure is the amount of light a digital camera's sensor captures when a photo is taken.

Canon Explains Exposure

Too much light results in a washed out photo (overexposed). Too little light and the photo will be too dark (underexposed). A camera's Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO settings directly affect exposure, but more importantly, they allow you to control how each photo will look. Aperture - Control the amount of blur or sharpness around your subject. What it is and what it does: The aperture setting controls the size of the lens opening that allows light into your camera.You can blur the foreground and background that bracket your subject (known as shallow depth of field) by opening up the aperture with a low f-stop number; alternatively, you can keep your photo sharp from the foreground through to the background (known as wide depth of field) by closing the aperture down with a high f-stop number.

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Art Retreat Workshops and Art Festival by Art and Soul Retreat. Brain Pickings. 09 APRIL, 2014By: Maria Popova “When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”

Brain Pickings

“A library is many things,” E.B. White once wrote in a letter to the children of a little town to inspire them to fall in love with their new library. “But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books… Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.” Reading room, Stephen A. Workshop. DIY Inkjet Transfers. Kelly Rae Roberts : Book. Steampunk Book with Steampunk Tape and Stamps! This is a great little booklet that can be made for any occasion. You could put a gift card, poem, pictures and stamped tags in the pockets.

For the wrap instead of the usual ribbon I used VLVS! STEAMPUNK STRAP TAPE! To do this I took the tape and stuck the sticky side of clear tape to the sticky side of the Steampunk Strap Tape, carefully cutting excess tape away, use a dot of VLVS! Tutorial: Easy Tiny Envelopes. Article of the Month Page.

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