Mixed Mania: Recipes for Delicious Mixed Media Creations
Featuring a wide range of mixed media projects, this outrageously fun craft primer takes a decidedly unstuffy approach to an immense range of art methods. Projects—including art quilts, painting, collage, bookbinding, assemblage, doll making, decoupage, and image transfers—are divided into three main sections: Artistic Appetizers, Creative Main Courses, and Sweet Treats and Special Occasions, with each addressing a different level of time invested and difficulty. Whimsically laid out like recipes, each project includes detailed ingredients (materials), instructions (what to mix and add), and tasting tips (how it should look).
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"This book is a great intro to mixed media, and perfect for anyone you know who's interested in exploring this mode of creating, but doesn't know where to begin." --Craftypod.com
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"Crane and Prater dream up every which way to do collage and scrapbooking. . . . Showcases what incredible results mixed media can produce." —Booklist
"This book is the mixed media version of Mason Dixon Knitting. It's all about going nuts, losing yourself, and creating!" —CraftLit: A Podcast for Crafters Who Love Books
"This book is a great intro to mixed media, and perfect for anyone you know who's interested in exploring this mode of creating, but doesn’t know where to begin." —Craftypod.com
About the Author
Debbi Crane is an elementary school teacher and an artist. She teaches fabric art workshops and has had works published in several magazines, including Cloth Paper Scissors and Somerset Studio. She lives in Bedford, Indiana. Cheryl Prater is a scrapbooker whose works have been featured in Cloth Paper Scissors and Creating Keepsakes. She lives in Atlanta.
Customer Reviews
mixed mania
A very entertaining and useful book. The basics to creating mixed-media things are clear and include imaginative substitutions made with things people would likely have on hand. Even if the reader doesn't chose to make similar things to the authors', this book has an inspiring feel to it and makes it obvious that we can do whatever we want with our creativity.
Cookin' Up Some Creative Projects!
Set up loosely like a cookbook (just for fun), the book begins with easy projects that get a little more sophisticated with each "course". Not to worry though because the instructions are clearly written, have lots of pictures, and use easy to pretty common supplies for artists at least a little familiar with mixed media. Even if you have been doing mixed media for years, I highly recommend reading the instructions to the projects, for neat tricks and advice, and lots of humor. We can always learn something new and if not, we can laugh along knowingly. (Impatient artists know that heat guns are your best friends! Isn't that true?!)
Some of the best things I like about this book is that a variety of mixed media projects are given included paper, fabric and assemblage. Personally, I work only with assemblage and paper, but the beautiful fabric projects seem too tempting not to try! --- I also like that the book is written by two very talented, very funny women with different personalities and art styles and the projects reflect this. There is something for everyone!
Great book for these times
Great book, beautiful pictures and conversation and ideas. What I like best is that so many of the projects draw on what things we save, like old calendars, bits from tag sales, etc. Very inspiring.
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