Conlin - Collage crafts gone wild : mixed media projects and techniques

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Dont feel like you have to acquire all of these products at once. The techniques and projects in this book can be mixed and matched to use what you have. Many of the projects call for recycled materials youll find around the house or studio. If you have some of the items on this list and a friend has others, get together to experiment.

• alphabet stencil with 1" (3cm) letters
• butane lighter
• chipboard elements
• heat gun
• metal shears
• miter box
• painting smock
• rubbing alcohol
• small piece of copper sheeting
• Sparkle Glaze
• wood burning tool with universal tip

• assorted paper
• assorted sandpaper
• cardstock
• deli wrap or tracing paper
• freezer paper
• heavy-weight drawing paper
• Japanese washi paper tape
• labels and tags
• palette paper
• paper or Styrofoam plate
• paper towels
• personal letters/postcards
• scrapbook and collage paper
• transparency sheets
• words cut from a vintage book

• assorted clothes/fabrics
• assorted ribbons
• fabric lining
• freezer paper or prefabricated fabric sheets for printer
• images on fabric or transparencies for ink-jet printers
• trim, lace or other as desired
• Velcro
• vintage belt
• waxed linen

• assorted craft knives
• assorted beads
• assorted buttons
• assorted glue
• assorted hammers
• assorted pliers
• assorted scissors
• assorted tape
• assorted wire
• baby wipes
• bone folder
• burnishing tool
• computer with scanner
• corner rounder
• cutting mat
• d-rings with mounting brackets
• disposable mixing bowl
• electric hot plate
• hot pot
• iron and ironing board
• needle tool
• Phillips head screwdriver
• printer
• razor
• ruler
• saw
• screws that fit the d-rings
• seam ripper
• sewing machine
• sewing tracing wheel
• small nails
• spoon
• water containers
• wire cutters

• acrylic spatula
• assorted acrylic paints and inks
• assorted crayons
• assorted markers
• assorted oil pastels
• assorted pencils/pens
• assorted stamps
• craft sticks
• glitter
• inkpads
• paintbrushes

• art doll face molds
• assorted adhesives
• assorted canvases
• assorted embroidery floss
• assorted hole punches
• assorted needles and thread
• assorted rub-ons
• assorted sponges
• beeswax
• bubble wrap
• brayer
• cards
• dapping block
• disposable plastic cups
• Double Tack Mounting Film
• electric tea light
• encaustic mediums
• erasers
• fortune (from cookie)
• gesso
• hemp cord
• screw punch or book-binders awl
• jump rings
• large slide mount
• lobster clasps
• matte spray sealant
• Mod Podge
• old book pages/covers
• metal tray
• oven mitt
• oxidizing solution
• paper clay
• proportion wheel
• punchinella
• rigid wrap plaster cloth,
• plaster of Paris
• scrap lumber
• bearing swivels, size 7
• small charm brads
• Steam-a-Seam 2
• stencils
• thin copper sheeting
• tuna fish or other cans of similar size, clean
• vintage clothes hanger
• water
• wooden dowels

Collage. What a wonderful and fascinating way to express ones self, this joining of myriad materials and objects in any form that you can imagine.

With collage, you can tell a story. You can immortalize a place or a moment in time. You can remember a loved one. Your work can be literal or figurative. You can find inspiration or you can inspire. Its up to you. Its all up to you.

Mixed media, by its very definition, is the perfect partner for collagea marriage made in heaven. The mingling of paper and fabric, words and pictures, paint and glue and so much more. Its exhilarating.

Collage Crafts Gone Wild will inspire you with a collection of twenty-four unique and thoughtfully selected step-by-step projects from some of North Lights most popular authors, including Kelly Rae Roberts, Traci Bautista and Josie Cirincione.

With these projects, youll not only be creating, youll be learning. Youll learn a few basics for making backgrounds, embellishing with stamps and stencils, and adding finishing details like stitching and highlighting. Youll also work with less-common materials, like plaster, paper clay and leather, and less-common techniques, like heat fusion, encaustic painting and wood stamping.

The projects youll make will likely make you think a little differently about collage and what collage can be. Theres wall art, of course, but this wall art is created on paper and fabric and wood and canvas and matboard and cardboard. And then there is the off the wall art: a patchwork bag, an album, a mobile, a bracelet, a trinket box. Still collage, just more.

So whatever you want from your collage explorations, the journey starts here. Now choose a project and be on your way.

Kristy

Paper. Its probably what most people think of when they hear the word collage. And all of the projects in this chapter do share paper as a main ingredient or a base element, if you will. But paper? Thats about the only thing this unique mix of projects share.

Small Talk is the perfect project to open this chapterits fun and happy and so very personal because it requires you to fill your canvas with all those little thoughts in your head! Oh, and this project in particular is adaptable: Make it big or make it small. Youll be surprised the difference scale can make in visual impact. Small Talk? It measures only 10" 8" (25cm 20cm). Sweet and small and intimate. The variation piece, Mind Chatter, on the other hand? Its 36" 24" (91cm 61cm). So cool on such a grand scale. So play, experiment and try switching it up.

Butcher Paper Collage shows you that collage can to be used in projects other than wall art (a fact that will be proven over and over again in the rest of this book), as you create a journal or notebook cover. And in addition to stenciling, painting and gluing, this project introduces textilesin this case, random machine stitchingto your collage toolkit.