No Cost Art Supplies to Collect for Creatives.

No cost art supplies and ideas for mixed media, collage, bookmaking and all your creative projects. A list of things that cost next to nothing and maybe hanging around. 

Packaging material
Old school books
Old books
Old board game
Wallpaper
Vintage sheet music
Junk mail

 

 

Discarded computer printouts used to make envelopes for mailart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old books and pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Needle and thread for mark-making, texture and line
Tea bag paper
Sweet wrappers
Travel brochures
Maps
Cards
Buttons
Vintage papers

Collages made from old clothing, found papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Vintage tablecloth's and book pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Junk mail and packaging

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Books made from recycled found objects, off-cuts of fabric, string. Old tins and buckles.

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Food packaging books made from pasta boxes with acetate windows, scrap wool, dyed with Parisian essence from the pantry.

 

 

 

Book covers made from food packaging and a concrete mix bag































Books made from old paint rags from the studio


























Vintage wallpaper and old book pages







































Used envelopes for patterns on inside
Newspaper printed in another language
Magazines
Tissue
Toilet paper
Old dress pattern tissue
Fine wire mesh
Sea glass
Driftwood
Seed pods
Bark
Coffee sleeves
Fabric offcuts
















    



Wool
Lace scraps
String
Bubblewrap for printing & stamping
Old photos
Serviette
Parisian essence for dying paper & fabric

 

 Rusty bits and pieces

What else can you think of?