The Arts Bloggers provide more unique ideas this week.  Check out these activities you may want to try…as a fun diversion or something to do with your children during the summer vacation.

 The Artful Crafter suggests that you put your beachcombing mementos in full view all year round by arranging them on a pretty decoupage box.

 Now that your children are home from school, experience some “time travel” quilt related adventures with them, says Mary Emma Allen here at Quilting and Patchwork.

Even though Father’s Day is over, you might like to  make a special hand-printed t-shirt for your Dad to let him know he’s special…an idea from Tangled Thread.

At A Creative Journal you’ll find more terrific visuals for your journal.

Learn, at Hankering for Yarn, to spool knit a magical little ‘Fairy Window’ for making wishes.  So check out this tutorial.
  
One reader shares some wonderfu lideas at  Junk Creations, such as yard art from scrap metal.

Enjoy!

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(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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The Arts Bloggers Provide More Unique Ideas, Including Quilting

Among our weekly crafty suggestons, you’ll find journal keeping, quilting memory journaling, knitted dolls, custom soaps, collage techniques, scissor shapening tips, and mixed media monograms.  Even quilters like to dip into other types of art. 

Heather at A Creative Journal gives us 14 Reasons to Keep a Visual Journal

Check out Noreen’s Esperanza – Knitted Doll of Hope at Hankering for Yarn.

Eileen, at The Artful Crafter, gives directions for transferring any design to a bar of soap, How to Make Custom-Design Gift Soaps .

Visit Layers Upon Layers where Cyndi shares another project combining handpainted backgrounds and digital layering for a very personal collage.

Katelyn at Stamping Mad shows us how to create a Mixed Media Monogram Letter.  While making this letter, I discovered that art doesn’t always do what we want it to do.

Mary Emma at Quilting and Patchwork discusses Saving and Sharing Your Quilting Memories. What fun to find ways to save your quilting memories to share them for future generations.

Having problems finding a good place to sharpen your expensive fabric scissors? Chloe at Tangled Thread shares some tips to help you.

Enjoy!  And let us know about some of your favorite quilting and fabric art projects…or other crafts you’re involved in.

(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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The Artsy Bloggers With Some More Crafty Solutions

A group of arts bloggers at the b5media Lifestyles Channel have collected a round-up of their posts.   How about checking them out for fun and inspiration?

*Link to a  Free Collage Sheet to download at Heather Goldsmith’s A Creative Journal.  I’ll have to do that myself since I’ve become fascinated by collages, whether fabric, paper, or mixed media.
 
*How Important is Color? Katelyn, of Stamping Mad, asks as she muses on the importance of color in art.  I’ve been fascinated by color this week as my daughter has been in the midst of dyeing fabric for her quilting art projects.

*At Cyndi Lavin, at Layers Upon Layers, gives us instructions on  how to create a cyanotype from any photo…digitally!  Ah!  This is fascinating.

*Here at Quilting & Patchwork, I researched information about quilters who are doing something special to commemorate Black History Month. 

*Chloe Findlay-Harder, at Tangled Thread , shows us how to create a finished piece of fiber art from beginning to end.  Lots of inspiration here.

Hope you can find some fascinating ideas and enjoyable reading by checking out these blogs.  What are you doing in your creative art field?

(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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Quilting & Patchwork Joins the Art Bloggers