Papier mache is becoming increasingly popular as a medium for craft objects. It is also gaining converts among fine artists in other fields, such as textiles, ceramics, sculpture, and jewelry. This book offers inspiring ideas for dozens of projects, together with easy-to-follow instructions to carry them out. Illustrated.
Taking only scissors, glue, some old magazines or greeting cards, and this book, you will quickly be on your way to creating more than 50 fantastic and useful projects, from a romantic jewelry box to a colorful watering can.
Lamps and their shades add a special decorative feature to any room, and people are now using kits and bought fittings to suit their chosen decor. This book presents a range of wall, table, side and freestanding lamps, along with suggestions for making and decorating lamps and lampshades.
A collection of over 80 projects giving step-by-step instructions for making mobiles, together with advice on materials, techniques, and equipment. Complemented by 300 colour photographs.
From high designer fashion to ethnic styles, from the traditional and classic to the outrageous, this book offers decorative cushions for all tastes and styles of home. As well as including step-by-step instructions for making cushions, it also contains a range of ideas for embellishing cushions and adding details such as tassels, braiding, ...
This complete project book has everything home decorators need to work successfully and creatively with stamps -- including 180 designs to trace! Quick, easy and versatile, stamping is a favorite technique for today's home decorator. This colorful guide provides readers with the information and inspiration they need to make their own stamps and ...
Over 50 inspired ideas for creating and embellishing your own frames.Fanciful Frames presents fantastic ideas for making your own beautiful frames, with 50 stunning projects to follow at home. The book clearly explains with practical photographs, everything you need to know to make wonderful and original surrounds.
Stamping is a crafting craze, perfect for weekend play. Very little special equipment is required, the technique is quick and easy, and the results are terrific. This book provides all the information needed to send anyone, adults and children alike, on their way. Step-by-step color photographs lead readers through 40 fun and colorful projects.
An exciting, thoroughly modern approach to creating inexpensive and stylish interiors with dye, "To Dye For" brings cold-water dye into the '90s. Thirty step-by-step projects offer chic, clever ideas for using dye to stain wooden floorboards, create a tie-dyed throw, match kitchen colors with dyed raffia placemats, design bold lamp shades, and ...
A colorful book about how to design, make, and embellish hats with assurance, how to wear them with panache, and how to enjoy them with style. More than 40 inventive projects, shown in full color, including careful instructions and materials lists, suggestions for variations, and charming photos.
From needlepoint cushion covers to delightful items for children, here is a unique collection of colorful and charming crafts projects and recipes--all based on the heart symbol. 100 four-color photos, 10 four-color and 15 black-and-white illustrations.
This work shows how to transform old paper and glue into practical as well as decorative objects. Step by step photography and pull-out templates give instructions for such items as bowls, plates, jugs, a clock and Christmas decorations.
A guide to making soft furnishings without sewing, this book shows how to use iron-on tapes, fabric adhesives, staple guns and curtain clips to make attractive and durable fabric furnishings for the home. All methods are explained in detail and illustrated with step-by-step photographs.
This text introduces an array of boxes which can be made from readily available materials. All projects are clearly explained with full step-by-step instructions and illustrated with colour photographs.
More than 40 projects for creating custom clocks using a variety of craft techniques, including papier-mache and needlepoint. All that is needed is a battery-powered mechanism with atttached hands (available at many craft shops) and your imagination.
Simple to learn and simple to do, applique nevertheless offers a range of creative possibilities, from distinctly up-market bed linen, tablecloths and cushion covers to highly personal styling in clothes and wallhangings. In this book, author Juliet Bawden looks at the past and present of applique, featuring the work of top designer-makers who ...
For cross-stitch beginners and needlecrafters, there is great value in this idea-packed instruction book with a starter kit containing Aida cross-stitch fabric, a needle, and three skeins of colored cotton thread. Ranging from cushions to curtain tiebacks, napkins and placemats, picture frames, pillowcases, towels, baby blankets, bibs, and ...
Today, a new generation of designer-makers has adapted the si mple techniques of the traditional craft - hooking, prodding, weaving and braiding - to create a range of contemporary patterns and decorative objects. This book offers an inspirational collection of work from some 20 internationally known designer-makers, as well as 15 practical, ...
Thirty projects in a range of styles. In a chapter on painted cushions, instructions are given for a variety of hand-painted, stenciled, marbled, silk-painted, and tie-dyed projects. Other projects feature cross-stich, crochet, machine embroidery, and applique.
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