More tricks.........

1. cardboard insert from case of beer!  brush lightly with paint, cool element
2. homemade stamp, funfoam on block
3. clipboard!  i use these all the time, great to place between pages of a journal
4. cardboard cup holder with perforations, great stencil
5. funfoam shape again, for mono-printing
6. create your own stencil with punches
7. circle stencil from Jello cup packaging
8. more cup holder interiors – small lines to mono-print with
9. corrugated cardboard as tool and element
10. cardboard palette – used for storing and stacking
11. sandpaper – great for scuffing painted pages (swipe some from your partner)
12. feathers gathered from my parakeet’s cage
13. colored staples, nice detail (Target carries multi-colored packs)

And my most favorite.....HERE

Comments

[Sharon at Norah'S]

OK, so I'm really not trying to be "cheap" by leaving 2 comments about my tricks but heck I think I left it at the wrong place.

So it's about my chickens and guineas always leaving me feather presents. And then this year, I managed to get digital photos of my bluebird nestboxes with those beautiful eggs. Beautiful addition to my art.

[Ursula Clamer]

These are fantastic Michelle, some really great ideas.
Another cheapish trick if you like coloured staples, and already have alchol inks...you can colour the plain staples you buy in the office stationary supplies with the inks! Ux

[Maj]

Michelle,the parcel arrived - THANK YOU!!!!!!
HIM is playing in the background and I am looking over The PILE you send me, I have been wanting the Prague Alpabeth - and you even send me a kneeling pad for mounting - yes!
I am looking forward to trying the anaglypta technique.
And thankyou so much for the beautiful box!!!!
- you sure know how to make a girl happy!

Everything is just my taste and NOW I have 4-clovers!

[Becky New]

Love it love it love it!!! You are so bloody genius I just LOVE IT!!! :D (but Michelle.... poor birdie.... he is nekkid now? ;)

[Nicole]

Ohhhhhhhhh great and sooo many tricks. ;) Will try a few of them. ;) Thanks Michelle of this absolutely great crusade. I am doing a little surprise for you, so it would be great if you send me your address via e-mail. ;)

XoXo Nicole

[Sharon@norah'S]

I'm baaaaaaaaaaak.
It me again and about my chickens and guineas and the little puffs of themselves that they leave around for me, free.
It's official. I'm a team member and on a Crusade.
NO 8 can be viewed at: http://allnorahsart.blogspot.com/2007/05/killing-two-birds-with-one.html

Here's hoping that works.

[gaby braun]

I saw that Cheap Tricks as a winner yet. Congratulations! All the tricks were fantastic and we all learned a little more.
Nevertheless I have another Cheap Trick to make your homemade clay.

http://gaby-cajubrasil.blogspot.com/2007/06/cheap-tricks-home-made-clay.html
gaby

[Laura Wilson-Anderson]

#6, using punches to create stencils, is one of my favorites, especially when I'm using Golden fluid acrylics. Layers and layers and layers, with occasional circles and squares - you get the COOLEST papers!

I also love using bird feathers - I used to have 23 birds of various types, and I still have a baggie of feathers from some of them (although it's in storage somewhere with most of the rest of the stuff I own). I do still have an African Grey who tosses me feathers occasionally, but I don't remember to save them often. I'll have to remember from now on.

I love the top cups of the yogurt that comes with granola or chocolate covered pieces of something or stuff like that - the stuff that you mix in - I haven't bought it for a while, but those top cups that the dry stuff comes in are just perfect paint cups (and water cups) and for tracing circles. :-) I still have a bunch from yogurt I ate six years ago!

I'll have to find some scans of the paper I've made - the paper itself, I think, is in storage...

Laura

[Nita]

This is so cool. I am going to try this. Nita