Creative Handmade Paper
Creative Handmade Paper, How to Make Paper from Recycled and Natural Materials
Author: David Watson
ISBN: 0-85532-730-8
Publisher: Search Press
Review by: Sara Millis of Sara’s Texture Crafts
As a crafter it’s often new crafts that take my fancy every so often and I revel in dabbling in new techniques. While some techniques I prefer to learn in a [...]
Paper Fashion on Stylehive
Check out our latest Stylehive post. We highlight a variety of artists creating paper fashion objects.
Images by Kim
Visual images stay with us for a long time. When I think of certain memories, I often picture an picture or photo that I connect with that memory. Of course artists often use old images in the way of ephemera in their work. Kim Newberg, a member of our DIY City Mag community, has used [...]
littlepinkstudio set to launch June 26, 2008
We love to browse Flickr - it is one of our favorite places to find unique artists. While exploring today, we ran across Cerri of Little Pink Studio. She loves to find unique products at flea markets and antique shops - and you will be able to benefit from her tasteful shopping at her soon [...]
The Arm Letterpress is offering more great workshops
If you are traveling to the Big Apple on May 31st you may want to sign up for the one day letterpress workshop at The Arm Letterpress. The workshop, for beginners, will teach you the basic principles of letterpress printing on the Vandercook cylinder proof presses in The Arm’s public access studio. You will also [...]
Mulberry Muse
by: Kate K of ohsosuite.etsy.com
When Wendy Paula Patterson listed the words: unique, feminine, luxurious, delightful and exquisite in her profile as the words that best describe her products, I couldn’t agree more. The ultra-feminine cards are so beautifully designed with embellishments in all the right places. They strike a perfect balance of old world charm [...]
i heart paper: kate banazi
heart paper.
with Kate
You’ll be hard pressed to find anything remotely similar to what Kate Banazi creates. An Australian resident, her striking silkscreen prints caught my eye over at her etsy store, alyoisiusspyker. Kate’s sharp style is spot on. The combination of line drawings, photography and typography with the arresting color choices make [...]
I Heart Paper - New Column with Kate of OhSoSuite
Welcome to the new column here at DIY City entitled “I Heart Paper.” The idea is to give paper artists of all varieties a visual voice and a way of introducing themselves to all you DIY City readers. I put together a basic questionnaire and contacted a select few artists working in the industry who [...]
Sylvia Newton - Designer of DIY City Mag’s First Cover
Sylvia created the artwork for the first issue of DIY City mag. Check out her other art at her Etsy shop - sylviamay.etsy.com.
Sylvia Newton is a doodler. Being a doodler myself, I understand how it is that any scrap of paper can become a target for scribblings. Such was the case with Sylvia when she [...]
