Links

Zines:

Dog Eared Magazine: Awesome publication for bookbinders. Each issue focuses on a differnt kind of book such as photocopied, folded or alterted book. Black & White artwork. Pulished quarterly. They also sell cool rubber stamp & computer font alphabets.

ARTitude Zine: Great for non-cute, alternative art artists. Filled with artwork, essays, projects, tips of the trade and useful information, delivered in a fun and funky format. They explore assemblage, altered books, collage, artistamps, rubber stamping. Published Quarterly.

The Studio: A funky art journal featuring that comes out quarterly. It included 64 black and white profusely embellished pages plus 4 full color pages. Topics include art books, altered books, journals and journaling, paper arts, cool rubber stamps, collage, assemblage, found art, and anything else related.

Tabellae Ansata: Founded by Shereen LaPlantz, It is named for the school kids lesson tablets in ancient Rome. It is quarterly publication of calligraphy, artist's books, bookbinding and books for kids. It includes how-to articles, practical information on tools & materials and how to use them, reproductions of finished works, book & exhibit reviews, and a calendar of events.

Magazines:

Sommerset Studio: Combining paper arts with rubber stamping and lettering-art techniques, this full-color bimonthly magazine is perfect for intermediate to advanced artists and crafters hungry for information, inspiration, and the latest innovations in papercrafts, art stamping, and calligraphy. Learn from fellow artists; it's a magical place of inspiration. Very high-quailty printing and mostly non-cut artwork.

The Stampers' Sampler: A great source of inspriation and ideas. The sister publication to Somerset Studio, The Stampers' Sampler is a bimonthly, full-color magazine filled with hand-stamped artwork contributed by our readers. Each issue features almost 200 samples with instructions so that you can duplicate the artwork at home. As of the Jan/Feb issue the magainze will expand and inlcude almost doubble the samples. Imagiart stamps has sponsored pages in the Oct/Nov v 2001 and Jan/Feb 2002 issues. Click links to see samples and instructions included in our sponsored pages these issues.

Belle Armoire: French for "beautiful wardrobe," Belle Armoire marries fabric arts with rubber stamping and embellishments–showcasing one-of-a-kind, handmade fashions and wearable-art projects. It is a wonderful magazine for the art stamper, embroidery artist, custom jewelry designer, fabric painter or knitting and crocheting enthusiast. Very high-quailty printing like Sommerset Studio. Publshied bi-monthly.

Rubber Stamper: variety of cute & non-cute art. Each bi-monthly isssue brings you great projects, tips and ideas. Excellent step by step projects, beautiful full color photography and tons of new product information fill each issue.

Stamping Arts & Crafts: Somewhat similar to Rubber Stamper and the newest rubber stamp magainze. Includes a variety of cute & non-cute art. Each bimonthly issue features full-color articles with step-by-step instructions on the latest new rubber stamping trends. Every magazine is chock-full with over 50 projects ranging from stamping on wood, fabric, and clay to creating 3-D cards, scrapbook pages and mailable art. Also included are projects for home decorating--including stamping on walls, furniture, curtains, even the floor.

RubberStampMaddess: more cute stuff than other rubber stamp magaizine, also not as high-quality in printing. The oldest rubber stamp magazine, over 21 years in business. Printed bi-monthly.

Bead & Button: Not a rubber stamp magazine, but a great resource of finding cool beads and findings. They also have a least one project that uses polymer clay per issue.

Resources:

Gingerwood: Find just about any rubber stamp company that has a website. Also has a swap board, stamp stores by state, links, card gallery and more....

Art-E-Zine: Very cool stuff. Lots of rubber stamp samples including art from numerous swaps, tags, collage, faux postage (artist stamps), dolls, books and computer art. Online workshops for creating alterted paper surfaces and books. List of swaps currently going on. Pages load slowly.

Rubberstamp.org: Find a rubber stamp store anywhere. International search included.

Rubber stamp Auction: Rubber stamp and craft auction. Free to sellers.

RTS (Rubber Stamping Together): Rubber Stamp swaps and swap ideas.

Polymer Clay:

Polymer Clay Swap: Polymer clay swap art and links.

National Polymer Clay Guild: Membership gives you allows you to rent ploymer clay videos. They also publish a small newletter.

Bookbinding:

Paper & Ink Books: They sell all kinds of bookbinding and calligraphy supplies.

John Neal Books: They also sell a variety of bookbidng, calligraphy and bookart suppies. Catalog is printed newpaper style so it can be a little hard to navigate.