Essential Tools and Supplies for Collage Art: A Complete Guide
Vast amounts of Art Supplies to choose from
Amazon.com
Hobby Supplies for Halloween
Panduro
Art supplies you can order by recommendation and arrive quickly
Amazon.se: Electronics, Books & Sports Gear
All kinds of pretty and cute Stationary
Akademibokhandeln
A large selection of cute hobby items at reasonable prices
Søstrene Grene - Hitta inspiration, närmaste butiker och mycket mer! | Søstrene Grene
High quality pigmented acrylics
GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics Titanium White 5oz
Large selection of stationary and art supplies
Pen Store - Stort utbud av pennor och konstnärsprodukter
Great quality color watercolor pencils for portraits to put in your collage
E-boutique Switzerland | Writing Instruments & Fine Arts
Great coverage from skin tone to gelli printing
Acrylic – Winsor & Newton EU
Lots of tips and advice on all the various types of art work -broadened my mind
Collage techniques : a guide for artists and illustrators : Brommer, Gerald F
Great for giving a matt transparent finish on tissue paper
Mod Podge
Gives a ghostly transparent look to 80g paper
Köp Natusan Baby Oil, 300 ml
Beautiful intense ink which I use to add a pigment intense splash of colour to portraits
Watercolour Sets - Winsor & Newton
Great place to find used classic art books for all the techniques you need so I don’t worry about my budget
Awesome Books
A sturdy, classroom-friendly alternative. Strong core, excellent for dry or wet blending, and durable enough for repeated use.
Faber-Castell 117538 Albrecht Dürer Watercolour Pencils
A timeless book that helped me recover creative confidence. Wonderful to integrate into reflective journaling tasks with students.
Artist's Way - Julia Cameron - Häftad
Still flipping through my old Daler & Rowney sketchbooks — the paper’s aged better than I have. Half the pages are cringe, half are gold, and somehow they still guide my new work.
Ebony Artist's Sketch Book Spiral A5 - Daler-Rowney
This mixed media pad is perfect for experimenting – great for both myself and my students. It handles a variety of mediums beautifully, from ink and pencil to light washes of paint, without needing to switch papers. Reliable, versatile, and ideal for...
Adds such a vibrant glimmer of snow vibe I haven’t been able to achieve with metallic colours
Mica Pulver
Great design and themes for each season- I use them mostly for colour and prompts for my own work
Stamperia - Butiken Scrap & Hjälp i Göteborg AB
Lovely rich colours for gelli prints
Engels Verf Amsterdam Centrum
Can’t get enough of this material for my art work - you can play around with the transparency and texture to get amazing effects
50+ Tissue Paper Crafts for Creative Minds of Any Age
A completely new and exciting way of working with transparency and opacity on tissue paper that behaves like watercolor paper.
Tissue Paper - Colourful & Decorative Wrapping Paper
Materials
Stick it, seal it, love it — Mod Podge does it all. One coat to glue, one to shine.
Mod Podge
Tougher than it looks — this tissue doesn’t melt at the first splash. Perfect for layering, glazing, and happy accident
Carnival Paper Wet Strength White 10 Sheets
The Pritt Stick — quietly forgiving of mistakes and crookedness . A little burnish, and it holds everything together as if nothing ever happened.
Produkter från Pritt billigt online
Got my first kit and felt transported back to the printing press era! Such a great, hands-on experience – I’ve had so much fun creating my own junk journals. Everything in the kit inspired creativity and made the process feel authentic, artistic, and...
Bookbinding Kits: Arts & Crafts
This is my favorite design
Stamperia - Paper Pad 12x12- Cosmos infinity
This I use a lot for junk journal and my sketch book to get uniform shapes in different color combos
Vaessen - Craft punch stamp jumbo+
Still using the hobby material I bought 7 years ago when they opened up in my city. Absolutely fantastic range of products at an affordable price love love ❤️ it.
Flying Tiger Copenhagen
Beautiful mother of pearl effects which I have used on my snow collage
Renfio 100g Mica Powder Pigment Natural Fine ...
Quick and easy to use for my art journal cheap enough to go through lots of it
Panduro limstift 22g
Literally can’t manage without these mediums to get the effects I need.
Winsor & Newton Galeria Mattes Medium 250ml
Great quality for adding stenciling effects - using it for snow fractals right now on 🧊
Winsor & Newton Galeria Flexible Modeling Paste 250ml
Art books
eBay’s a treasure chest for art books—rare finds, weird gems, and bargains all hiding in plain sight
eBay
A completely different aspect of the silk road
Vikings of the Steppe: Scandinavians, Rus’, Turkic World (750–1050)
Love this site for specialized books. Just found a much sought after photographic book on the Kola Peninsula -it will be scenic inspiration for tissue paper backgrounds.
Bokbörsen
Have started collecting these mainly as inspiration for my own pieces of art. Absolutely gorgeous work.
Stamperia Forest Maxi Scrapbook Pad 22 Sheets
Tools
Love this Scoreboard — it creases, folds, and shapes cardstock with satisfying precision. Perfect for trimming, folding , and 3D paper for collages.
Scoringboards
The Sizzix Big Shot is so useful — it cuts, embosses, and presses texture into paper like a tiny printing press Feed in your paper layers, and it turns them into tactile artworks with patterns and textures
Sizzix.com
Still using my trusty Rotring after 20 years — it’s survived more exams, sketches, and coffee spills than most of my relationships. Proof that German engineering really can outlast human commitment.
rOtring
My inkjet printer may not be fancy, but it’s the silent hero of my collage portraits — fast, budget-friendly, and always ready to make me look more organised than I actually am!
LaserJet-skrivare – dokumentskrivare i svartvitt eller färg
Smooth, consistent, and reliable—Faber-Castell’s 0.5 B polymer refills glide effortlessly across the page with minimal breakage. They deliver rich, dark lines ideal for writing or sketching, making them a top choice for precision and comfort.Yes
Super-Polymer fineline lead, B, 1.0 mm - Faber-Castell EU
Derwent Metallics are absolutely wonderful – they add a beautiful shimmer and subtle lift to portraits without overpowering the tones. The colours blend smoothly and bring depth and dimension to skin and hair. Perfect for highlighting light and fine ...
Metallic Pencils
Gelly Roll pens are fantastic for adding opaque, precise, and vibrant highlights. The ink flows smoothly and covers evenly, even over darker layers. Perfect for fine details, accents, and finishing touches that make artwork truly stand out.
Gelly Roll Basic White 08
Great 👍🏻 for quick trims
Rotary Cutters, Cutting Mats & Rulers
The white flows and covers well without getting blocked
Uni-ball Signo Broad UM-153 – vit - Gelpennor
Really useful for cutting detailed shapes of faces and easy to replace blades
Precision Knife
Great tool I use for scrap a day or finicky collage items - glue without the mess
Glue Tape
Inspirational places
A great place for artistic inspiration ice sculptures from artists all over the world
