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Free Images to Download for your Art Projects

Help yourself to my free image downloads. Use these images freely in your artwork for resale, all I ask is that you don't resell the images in digital art form.

And....I would greatly appreciate if you...

a list of my favorite things about art and why you should purchase my art

I am a Canadian contemporary representational artist. You can find more information about me in my lens bio. You can buy my original fine art paintings, prints and greeting cards. Art is an investment for your future or give it to that special someon...

ACEO Cordelette Hanger for Card Display

A new and easy way to display your ACEO's. Do you have some beautiful ACEO cards in a drawer or no album to put them in? Consider hanging them up the simple way. The cordelette is handy enough to put anywhere and you have instant display and enjo...

Art and Craft Tutorials Headquarters

Art and Craft Tutorials

A collection of Tutorials, instructions, how-tos, tricks and tips for altered art, collage, mixed media, decoupage, scrap booking, paper crafts and other arts and crafts.

Artist Freebies

Welcome to the Artists Freebies page! This page is dedicated to all things free for the artist! Whether it be free artsy fonts or vintage images!

BOTTLECAPS - How to flatten bottle caps into scrapbooking embellishments

This tutorial will show you step by step, two different and simple ways to flatten bulky bottle caps into nice, creative, thin embellishments for your scrapbooks, mixed media, altered art or even into jewelry, such as personalized photo pendants!

Ho...

Creating a STAMPED DOMINO jewelry PENDANT

As you can see from my how to make a scrabble tile pendant lens, I love to create altered art jewelry from game tiles/pieces!

In this tutorial I will show you step by step how to create a lovely stamped domino pendant.

The dominoes provide a little...

Embellished Altered Keys Tutorial

These altered keys are fabulous to use for your altered books, collages and mixed media projects.

Lovely embellishments to add on book and journal covers, even as new jewelery pieces!

Fabric Trinket Boxes from recycled materials

I love to recycle everything and anything,
sometimes it becomes a challange as to
what I can do with items that
would normally be disgarded.




These little boxes were no exception,
made from an empty tapegun core, a cd,
some card board, scrap fabric...

Handmaiden Cross Stitch

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How to create STEAMPUNK jewelry art

Wikipedia defines Steampunk as "a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century, and o...

How to Make a Graham Cracker House

Graham cracker houses have been a holiday tradition in my family for over ten years. Each year we gather 8-10 builders, spread out a table full of candy, and keep the mixer going all day. It's a blast!

Here, I've laid out step-by-step instructions o...

How to make a Scrabble Tile Pendant

So you want to learn How to make a Scrabble Tile Pendant!

Well, scrabble tile jewelry, and more specifically scrabble tile pendants are one of the latest/hottest crafting crazes!

This free step by step Scrabble tile pendant DIY tutorial will show y...

How to Make Healthy Dog Biscuits

As we love our dogs unconditionally, taking them for daily wals and sometimes on vacation. We want the best for our family pooches. And, sometimes commercial products aren't the best for your dog. Healthy dog treats are delicious and provide your pup...

Imagesbykim

This is my personal Squidoo Lense where you will find info about me, my art, stuff for sale and links galore to a multitude of websites, blogs and forum all of which I either am the owner, a member, or it just might be one of my favorites or friends....

imagesbykim's Collage, Altered Art, Mixed Media Showcase

Mixed media artist selling altered art and supplies, ATC's, ACEO's, ephemera etc!

Make a paper bag album

Paper bag albums are very popular in scrapbooking and are super easy to make. All you need to get started are 3 paper bag sacks of any size (but usually around 6"x12" to create a book around 6"x6")

They are exceptionally easy to ma...

Needle felting by Grumble Toy

Hi everyone,
This is Ainsley from Grumble Toy. I just recently started needle felting and I have been having a blast making little creatures out of wool.
Needle felting is a technique where you poke raw wool until it forms a firm and dense shape. It...

Paper Crafting

Paper Crafting is a broad term which covers a wide range of creative pursuits from scrapbooking and collage to rubber stamping and card making.

I'll provide an introduction to some of my faves along with resources for supplies!

Soles United: Recycle Your Used Crocs

My baby blue Crocs has been through it all in the two years since I bought them. Traipsing through the sand on a Mexican beach, clomping around my local mall, squelching through the mud in Sudan. As a result, they're starting to look a bit battered a...

Tablet Weaving

Tablet weaving is a truly ancient technique for weaving bands. It is simple yet brilliant. It is also easy to learn: getting started takes just several hours. Exploring the technique, however, takes many years. Here is a how-to introduction with link...

Target Traffic to Increase Readers to Your Blog! ....But How? BLOGRUSH, and it's Free

BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need: More Readers For Their Blog.

The principle is simple; by putting the BlogRush widget on to your blog, you earn impressions that are then used to put links to your blog...

Tea Bag Folding and Pattern Instructions

Tea bag folding is a paper folding craft developed in Europe. It is similar to origami folding. You use all the basic origami folds such as the boat, the water bomb or the square base. It is as absorbing as origami because your output can be endless....

thrifting art supplies

On a budget or believe strongly in re-using, recycling and re-purposing? Often supplies become expensive as trends catch and shops specialize. Here you'll find alternatives and basics, innovative ideas, methods and uses for ordinary and not so ordina...

Tutorial Altered Art Harvest Canning Jar Lids

The summer of 2006 brought us an incredible garden and fall harvest. I spent a good portion of August and September canning and preserving the yields of our bumper crop gardens. Salsa, tomatoe stew, pickles, beets, peppers and more! Though I am n...

Tutorial Heart Ties for gift bags, gifts, ornaments and decorating

Creating these pretty little heart ties was so easy, they can be used to tie gift bags closed, add to gift packages as a pretty bow ornament or drape and display as ornaments year round.

I made the fabric bags with lace trim to fill with goodies and...

Vintage Style Mixed Media Collages

I fell in love with vintage mixed media and collage last year and ever since have been enjoying creating new art work to share. This is one of  my favourite collages. Since I am a chocoholic is seemed fitting :D It is actually a greeting card an...