Mail Art
Where Art and Mail Collide
This lens is my attempt at pulling the various strands of the mail art movement into one cohesive resource. Mail Art, or Postal Art, is many things to many people: sending art randomly to friends, swapping art covered envelopes with other artists and many variations including artist trading card swaps. My friends involved in correspondence art in the 1980's and '90's were counterculture folk interested in recycling and giving postal workers something interesting to look at. I found mail art ...

Altered Domino Art
The Domino as Artistic Canvas
Using ink, paint, tiny images and more, artists are altering domino pieces into miniature pieces of art, many of them wearable. This lens is a sampling of domino art, jewelry, techniques, and supplies. "Altered Domino embellishment by perigrine blue on Flickr

How To Make Altered Art Matchbox Shrines
Matchbox shrines, or altered matchboxes are very popular over at SwapBot for trading with your pen pals. I can't say I've ever heard of them until then. The more matchbox shrines I see, however, the more I want to make some. I've gathered up some altered matchbox how-to's on this page & I'm happy to share them with you. There are so many potential themes and artistic possibilities for making matchbox shrines. You don't even have to make the matchbox into a shrine, you can fill the matchbox ...

How to Make an Altered Composition Book
What Are Altered Composition Books?
Turn a plain composition book into a work of art worthy of gift-giving or keeping for yourself. Here you will find step-by-step instructions on how to create an altered composition book and what to use to decorate it. Create these one-of-a-kind notebooks for your own personal use, or make the comp. books as gifts for teachers, friends, and family. Altered composition books can be used as journals, planners, to-do lists, notes, idea logs and more. Purchase when school supplies are on clearance...

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.