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Craft Month 2013: Be an “Active Listener” from Art Saves by Jenny Doh

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In this chapter from Art Saves by Jenny Doh, you’ll read about being an active listener and get to try the “Collage on the Rocks” project. It’s Craft Month 2013 fun!

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Craft Month 2013 Kickoff: Cool Collage eBook

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In honor of Craft Month, we’re giving away a free eBook dedicated entirely to the delights of collage. This book includes ten collage techniques and projects from some of our favorite books!

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Make a Collaged Box from Crafty Birds

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In this mixed-media tutorial from the book Crafty Birds, you’ll learn how to make a collaged box in which you can store anything from jewelry to ephemera!

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Transparently Collaged: Ghost It

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Want to add a ghostly or transparent effect to your collage? Try this new image transfer technique from Mixed Media Revolution, the new book by Darlene Olivia McElroy and Sandra Duran Wilson.

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Make a Collage: Repetition of Stamps from Art of Layers

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The beginning of a new year is a great time to take stock in where you are creatively, and in life. Try Ronda Palazzari’s Repetition of Stamps technique to create a collage for where you currently are, and what you’d like to do in the next year!

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Artist Profile: Vicki Boutin

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Author of Creative Foundations, Vicki Boutin, shares her guilty pleasures, favorite places to travel, and much more in this artist profile.

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Art Saves: Creating an Affirmation Collage

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This tutorial takes you step-by-step through a collage project incorporating layers of paper and paints, charcoal pencil work and affirming messages of hope.

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Create Burnished Metal: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Using ordinary every day household items in new and completely unexpected ways? Vicki Boutin is a master at that, and in this tutorial she’ll show you how to use aluminum foil to create an album cover that’s thoroughly unique!

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Modeling Film Flower: A Tutorial

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In this tutorial, the author of “Delight in the Seasons” will show you, step by step, how to make a truly mixed media embellishment that will knock your socks off!

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Fusible Web Image Transfers: A Tutorial

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Fusible web image transfers are handy for projects of all sorts, like collage work and journaling—and you don’t even need adhesive! Darlene Olivia McElroy and Sandra Duran Wilson, authors of Image Transfer Workshop, show you how to create these transfers in this technique.

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