"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."       Alice in Wonderland.

  Play is the exultation of the possible.     Martin Buber  
SACRED ART PLAY

Resources
Wonderful Websites
Great Books and Magazines

www.artchixstudio.com/index.htm
Check out their Gallery page for inspiring ideas and their Free Classes page for specific instructions. Collage, rubber stamp, and scrapbooking supplies.

www.art-e-zine.co.uk/newstuff.html
Full of creative projects, some of them with instructions.
You can also join an art swap and learn new techniques in art journals, digital art, altered art, collage, assemblage, etc. They ask for a $10 donation

craftychica.com/welcome.html
This is one of my favorite sites. Check out the Projects page. Cathy Cano-Murillo has examples of her work and even short videos where she demonstrates how she makes some of her projects.

www.stampington.com/html/somerset_studio_magazine.html
Click on the "Shoppe at Somerset" button and scroll down to "The Studio". This includes over 400 samples of projects. You don't have to buy their products to be inspired by them! They offer several magazine series which focus on different craft techniques. My favorite is Somerset Studio, the Art of Paper and Mixed Media.

Crafting Personal Shrines, by Carol Owen
Easy instructions for different shrine styles, lovely photographs. Eight renowned artists showcase their shrines and share about the process.

Cloth, Paper, Scissors
A visual feast of ideas and techniques

I love anything printed by Stampington & Company. They have a number of magazines geared toward different crafts:

Somerset Studio: Combining paper arts with rubber stamping and lettering-art techniques

Stampers' Sampler: bimonthly, full-color magazine filled with hand-stamped artwork contributed by our readers

Somerset Memories
Devoted to creating family heirlooms for tomorrow

Somerset Life: how attention to the little things in life can lead to an inspired and artful way of living.

Artful Blogging - Innovations in technology provide new and exciting platforms for artists and writers to share their creative work with the world.

Somerset Art Journaling - Top artists open their art journals to share tips, techniques and inspiration in each issue of Art Journaling.
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