• acrylic paint
  • baggage tags
  • bags
  • beer and wine lables
  • berry juice
  • birthday cards
  • black coffee
  • book marks
  • business cards
  • calligraphy inks (more vibrant and transparent than water-color)
  • candle wax
  • cardstock
  • cellophane
  • chalk
  • chalk board paint and sidewalk chalk
  • charcoal
  • coffee sleeves
  • coin rubbings
  • colour chips (get these while you’re at the paint store :p)
  • coloured Sand
  • cue cards
  • dead butterflies and moths
  • denim from old jeans
  • dictionary entries
  • door numbers and letters (home depot has a whole wall of them).
  • dried herbs
  • duct tape, patterned or otherwise.
  • embroidery thread
  • envelops
  • felt pen
  • food lables
  • glitter
  • gold leaf pen ( found at art stores)
  • hair dye
  • house paint (paint stores give away mistinted paint for extremely low prices, can confirm: I work at a paint store and get free paint every day.)
  • invitations
  • junk mail
  • lables from a lable maker
  • leaves
  • lino Stamps (art stores sell ones you can carve yourself.)
  • little plastic bags
  • locks of your hair
  • magazine clippings
  • makeup (lipstick especially)
  • masking tape
  • melted Crayons
  • metallic foil
  • nail polish (if you pour it on the page and let it dry its beautifully shiny and textured. I use it to make eyes that glisten).
  • name tags
  • newspaper articles
  • notes from family members and loved ones
  • oil pastels
  • old school notes and assignments
  • oragami paper
  • other people’s drawings
  • pages of old books
  • paper doilies
  • parcel packaging
  • patches for mending clothes
  • pencil crayon
  • perfume samples
  • pet fur
  • plasticine
  • postage stamps
  • pressed flowers
  • pressed insects
  • pressed mushrooms
  • printed photographs
  • receipts
  • recipe cards
  • regular crayon
  • resaraunt coasters
  • resaraunt menus
  • ribbon
  • sawdust
  • scrapbook paper
  • scraps of fabric
  • second hand postcards
  • sharpie
  • shoe laces
  • snake skin (pet stores)
  • spider webs
  • spray on velvet
  • spray paint
  • squished bottle caps
  • stencils
  • stickers from Starbucks coffee bags (you can ask for these without buying the coffee)
  • straw and dried grasses
  • tea and tea bags
  • the inside of correlated cardboard
  • thin buttons
  • thin tile
  • ticket stubs
  • tin foil
  • unused pages from previous journals/ notebooks.
  • wallpaper
  • washi tape
  • watercolor
  • wood stain
  • yarn or wool
jul 2 2016 ∞
jul 30 2016 +