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Features innovative scrapbook pages as well as handmade memory artwork incorporating family photographs, vintage photography, treasured documents, and assorted memorabilia. Artistic scrapbook layouts, inventive embellishments and techniques, including digitally designed pages are featured in this highly regarded publication.
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 paper crafts, art stamping, and calligraphy. Learn from fellow artists; it's a magical place of inspiration.
Take Ten™ is devoted to making quick and easy cards in less than 10 minutes! Each issue is filled with over 500 truly inspirational designs and techniques, gift ideas and FREE Artist Paper Quads. Learn the techniques of guest artists; make quick and easy gifts, colorful patchwork masterboards, and much more. This publication is so popular that instead of offering it twice a year, we’ve extended it to four times a year!
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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 more than 250 samples with instructions so that you can duplicate the artwork at home.
Featuring our own rubber art stamp images, this quarterly publication showcases a wide variety of art-stamp projects with complete instructions, templates and full-color samples of inspiring artwork. Each issue is complete with a mini catalog featuring stamps used in that edition.
French for “beautiful wardrobe,” Belle Armoire® has been created especially for wearable art enthusiasts. It became an instant hit with art-to-wear enthusiasts. Highlighting the fabric arts, creative jewelry and accessories, beading projects, wire art, embroidery, and much more, Belle Armoire® is known for showcasing the very best of handmade wearable art.
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A unique full-color publication devoted to the art of making creative dolls and sculptural figures out of cloth, clay, and an assortment of embellishments such as beads and found objects, and mixed-media materials. With its focus on innovation, creativity, and matchless craftsmanship, Art Doll Quarterly™ has quickly risen to the top of its field and is now regarded by many leading doll artists and guilds as the very best of doll magazines.
The publisher's dream for Somerset Life, a new annual publication debuting May 2007, is to share beauty and meaning with its readers through fun stories and projects centered on inspired, artful living. Somerset Life will capture your readers’ imagination with stunning photography, insightful and entertaining articles, and fun, imaginative ideas to help infuse their daily life with simple pleasures, art, romance, creativity and beauty!
  
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Where Women Create
Where Women Create invites you into the creative spaces of the most extraordinary women of our time. Through stunning photography and inspirational stories, each issue of this quarterly magazine will nourish souls and motivate creative processes.
Inspired by Valentine's Day, Marilyn Healey and her artist friends embarked on an altered book collaboration that celebrates the spirit of love. Out of this creative journey emerged 12 stunning books, each containing pages that have been painted, stitched, embellished, and collaged. While some are humorous, some passionate and others whimsical, page after page reflects the essence of beauty and romance. Somerset in Love will allow you to take an inside look at this collaborative and the lovely results.
A crocheted bird ... a felt monster ... a cat made from an old sweater ... so many different materials can be used to create the loveable and huggable creatures known as “softies.” Stuffed: A Gathering of Softies celebrates these uniquely whimsical characters through page after page of gorgeous photos, easy-to-understand tips and techniques and an endless amount of inspiration. Veteran softie artists and new fans alike will enjoy this playful look at stuffed creatures of all shapes, sizes, colors, and materials.
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Somerset Art Journaling magazine will take you inside the pages of some of your favorite artists for an up-close-and-personal look. Detailed photos and insightful commentary will help you to discover your personal journaling style, with hints, tips and tricks for creating a stand-out page. You'll learn the techniques the pros use, and find the inspiration to take your own art journal to the next level.
 The premier issue of Somerset Digital Studio hits the newsstand on March 1, 2008! This exciting 144 page full-color publication is jam packed with breathtaking digital designs, informative feature articles and easy-to-follow tutorials. All the colors of the world emerge in this tapestry of original photographs, brought to you in Life Images, a new, 144-page quarterly publication to be released on January 1, 2008. Full-page images, accompanied by the photographers' journaling, invite you to share a moment in someone else's life. This breath-taking glimpse into the story behind the photograph will offer readers a unique opportunity to explore each image through thought-provoking written excerpts.
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Sew Somerset represents a new way of looking at sewn art. More than ever before, artists are discovering the joy of combining sewing with mixed-media projects, showing the world that stitches are not just for fabric anymore! Readers will find gorgeous photographs, easy-to-understand techniques, and endless inspiration. Sew Somerset will help crafters and artists alike learn how to add stitches of varied lengths, sizes, colors, and dimensions into their next project to create a look that is "So Somerset!"

This beautiful publication allows readers to take a virtual workshop with their favorite Somerset Studio artists. Learn fabulous techniques and make breathtaking projects that are illustrated from start to finish. All Workshop chapters include clearly stepped-out photographs with easy-to-understand instructions to help create exciting projects from some of the finest art and crafting instructors
Crafters will find the inspiration they need to make each holiday extra special with the gorgeous and festive art pieces created by our readers, complete with stunning photography and easy how-to instructions. Dazzling hand crafted ornaments, spooky trick-or-treat containers, romantic Valentine candy boxes, innovative gift packaging ideas, and cards for all occasions are just a few of the exciting holiday ideas your customers will garner from this 144-page issue.
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Even if you’ve never read a blog, you’re sure to find inspiration in the art-filled pages of Artful Blogging magazine. With hundreds of full-color photos from bloggers around the world, this publication is a feast for the eyes as well as the soul. Share the journey of self-discovery, creative expression and the growing community of artful bloggers everywhere. Featured this issue: Tara Frey of Bella Pink Cafe, Amy Powell of Inspireco, Vanessa Valencia of A Fanciful Twist, Ruth Rae of My Creative Soul, and more!
Gallery features everything readers love about Somerset Studio in 200 lush pages, including enlightening how-to-articles, beautifully photographed projects and hundreds of handmade creations by their favorite artists, as well as by them, our talented readers.
For over ten years, Stampington & Company has produced some of the finest art and crafting magazines available. HandCrafted™ introduces readers to 50 of our publisher and staff's favorite crafting projects reproduced from past issues of Somerset Studio®, Art Doll Quarterly™, Belle Armoire®, Inspirations™, The Stampers' Sampler®, Legacy™ and Take Ten™.
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Catch Up Volume 12 is finally here! Each year, we receive an unbelievable amount of amazing artwork. This year’s issue if filled with over 500 samples of the artwork we just couldn’t fit into The Stampers’ Sampler, along with their easy-to-follow instructions and high-quality photographs. You are sure to be inspired by the quality of the artwork, covering all colors of the spectrum.

Altered Couture is a 160-page publication dedicated to altered and embellished clothing and accessories, filled with gorgeous photographs of altered jackets, t-shirts, sweaters, jeans, skirts, and more, accompanied by easy-to-understand techniques and inspiration. It will show readers creative ideas on how they can add a twist to their attire with just a few resources: dyes, paints, bleach, rubber stamps, and more!

Haute Handbags inspires readers to redefine the handbag as an exciting foundation from which art can be created and carried with style. It features technique-based articles that teach readers to how to construct one-of-a-kind creations using collage, paint, decoupage, felted wool, repurposed materials and more.
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This 144-page issue is overflowing with exciting projects. Inside you’ll find necklaces, bracelets, earrings and brooches. Nearly every material you can imagine is used. Readers are inspired by all the projects, tips and techniques found in Belle Armoire Jewelry.

Beautiful close-up photographs of extraordinary ideas overflow in both volumes of Somerset Wedding. The bride and groom will be inspired by project ideas that will infuse elegance, simplicity, and individual style into their perfect day. Preparing, Uniting, Celebrating, and Remembering are the themes into which the projects are presented.

When readers wander through the inspiring pages of Somerset Home, they’ll be enthralled by room after room of beautiful projects. From serene wall hangings inspired by Tibetan prayer flags to fancifully-themed diminutive chairs, personal expression is the common thread that ties the articles together. Somerset Home will show readers how they can add their own touches to charming accents in their home.

 
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Beyond Paper Dolls is dedicated to expressive paper personas crafted with innovative techniques and art mediums by artist, author and designer Lynne Perrella and over 50 mixed-media artists. Click on the image above for more details from our retail website!
This book includes quick tips and clearly explained techniques. Expert and novice quilters alike will be inspired to incorporate techniques such as embellishing with found objects, art stamping, embroidery, image transfers, and beading, into their next art quilt project.
Includes more than 170 pages of original artwork. Artists share journaling prompts, how-to tips on everything from covers to construction, personal musings, and poetry, as well as the enlightening journal entries their daily lives.
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Fifteen amazing artists wanted to see what they could do with a single color scheme. Each artist contributed a journal cover in her chosen palette and a page in each journal. The finished works are filled with page after page of techniques and mediums, including stamping, painting, sketching, fabric art, metalwork, transfers and layered texturing – a wide spectrum of artistry and skill. Find hundreds of full-color photographs that showcase outstanding wearable art created by our talented readers. Enjoy inspiring articles that explore a variety of techniques, from shibori pleating to needle lace. A broad, colorful spectrum of beaded and wire art jewelry, hand-dyed silk vests and jackets, knitted scarves, crocheted sweaters and other innovative designs is awaiting in Salon.
Discover a vast array of innovative projects with instructions on how to incorporate stamped, painted, sewn, cut, and even burned transparencies to achieve incredible results. Learn from well known artists who show how these diversely treated transparencies can be fused into a variety of artwork including ATCs, shrines, art quilts, collages, cards, journals, and much more.
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This special publication celebrates nine dolls and the artists who made them. Each doll is a one-of-a-kind work of art, made by women who participated in an unusual collaboration that spanned 19 months and took the dolls on a journey all over the United States. A special edition of Somerset Studio® featuring more than 1,000 samples of beautiful Asian-inspired artwork. It includes nearly 200 pages of exotic artwork in the Somerset Studio® tradition, and no advertising.
Presenting more than 500 ATCs in this unique and beautiful 5X8 embossed cover book. It is packed with incredible cards representing different styles, materials, and themes of this emerging art form. This is a limited run and will include vellum and perforated pages.
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SOLD OUT. For over ten years, Somerset Studio has been delighting readers with an endless stream of artistry and creative inspiration. Now we invite you to celebrate our finest moments in Artists' Café, a 144-page special publication packed with all of the best we have to offer. Collected in the pages of Artists' Café, you'll find highlights from a decade's worth of cutting-edge design in paper crafts and mixed-media. You'll be inspired all over again when you rediscover favorite projects and techniques, or revisit the spectacular work of an admired artist. Detailed instructions accompany photographs that will dazzle the eye and fire the mind. Whether you're a new reader of Somerset Studio or an old fan, you'll want to make this exceptional volume a part of your permanent collection.

   
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