Art Supplies Archive

  • Art Supplies: Mediums, Varnishes & Fixatives

    Art Supplies: Mediums, Varnishes & Fixatives

    Supplies are all around you, all you have to do is look around! You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you could transform an old pizza box, opened...

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  • Art Supplies

    Art Supplies

    Explore - You’ll find materials everywhere! Everything has a use, and you can make masks with scissors and crayons or markers or use a large pizza box for a collage, decorating it with dried, painted pieces of pasta you glue on. When you’re crafting, look around...

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  • Painting: Oil Paint

    Painting: Oil Paint

    Be observant with your surroundings and you will find a vast assortment of materials. Paper Plates can be masks with some scissors and markers, A pizza box can be cut up to make a big wall collage, dry pasta can be painted many colors and...

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  • Art Supplies: Altered Art & Collage

    Art Supplies: Altered Art & Collage

    I am always making homemade crafts and I know that buying all of your supplies from an art supply store can be expensive. So, now I have put together every way I discovered to spend less money for supplies and still make something special and...

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  • Decorative & Tole Painting: Ready to Paint Items

    Decorative & Tole Painting: Ready to Paint Items

    Look Around! There are supplies all around you! Everything has a use, and you can make masks with scissors and crayons or markers or use a large pizza box for a collage, decorating it with dried, painted pieces of pasta you glue on. When you’re crafting,...

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  • Decorative & Tole Painting: Tole Decals & Transfers

    Decorative & Tole Painting: Tole Decals & Transfers

    As a fan of creating homemade crafts and a devoted scrapbooker, I am all too aware of the expense of buying art supplies from stores at retail prices. This should give you some good ideas for ways to save on art supplies while still maintaining...

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  • Drawing: Calligraphy Sets

    Drawing: Calligraphy Sets

    You probably have a pile of magazines accumulating somewhere in the house, and now there are lots of ways you can make some use of them. A technique I love is to cut out different sized and colored letters and make sayings or quotes. To...

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  • Canvases, Pads & Paper: Pads & Sketchbooks

    Canvases, Pads & Paper: Pads & Sketchbooks

    I am an avid scrap-booker and love creating homemade crafts, so I know that buying supplies from art supply retail stores can be quite expensive. To save on supplies and still be super unique and creative, here I have compiled all of the ways I’ve...

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  • Art Supplies: Sculpture

    Art Supplies: Sculpture

    If you have a large collection of periodicals that have been piling up around your house, there are a variety of different ways to put them to good use. Cutting out letters of varying sizes and colors, and then using them to make phrases or...

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  • Drawing: Pastels

    Drawing: Pastels

    There are a lot of ways you can eventually use that big pile of magazines that has been gathering beneath your bed. A technique I love is to cut out different sized and colored letters and make sayings or quotes. To get a cool retro...

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