Two of the genre's leading magazines combine forces to offer crafters their best projects, articles, techniques, and tips. Projects include cards, jewelry, magnets, home and fashion accessories, gift wrap, handmade paper, and many more. Easy-to-follow instructions and compelling photos describe how-to-steps for literally dozens of amazing stamping ...
Boys and girls alike will love these adorable knitted toys. In this book, readers will find twenty-five unique designs for fun toys that kids of all ages will love. From cute chicks and colorful mice to a patchwork tortoise and a cool robot, there's a project for kids of all interests. Knitters will also find an array of ideas for adding fabric ...
When it comes to having layouts in a scrapbooking book or magazine, more is definitely better. With layouts and tips contributed by readers in a general call and by our cast of paid contributors, 601 is brimming with information and ideas. Supplies lists are included for each layout, and notable techniques and stories-behind-the-page are featured ...
With their splendid array of colours, textures and patterns, collages have an alluring beauty unlike any other art-form. One of today's most outstanding collagists has produced this indispensable guidebook to the vast assortment of tools and techniques available: grounds and supports for the work, paper layering, faux-lace embellishing, assemblage ...
Recounts the history of pop-up books, provides detailed instructions and examples for creating each type of effect, and offers information on how movable books are produced.
Express your care and creativity with cards for friends and loved ones designed to celebrate the seasons, holidays, special occasions, tender sentiments, and more. With the ideas organized into easy-to-find sections, you'll find just the inspiration you need to create a card that will be a cherished gift in and of itself. Projects from the pages ...
Laura Check, drawing from her 10 years of experience as a preschool teacher, brings this kid-tested art form to a whole new level of ingenuity! Quick, easy, and inexpensive as always, these crafts are so innovative and exciting that kids of all ages will be clamouring to join in the fun. Kids create incredible works of art using foil, feathers, ...
Mary Delany's "paper mosaics" of flowers, made from hundreds of pieces of cut coloured paper, were the crowning achievement of a long and creative life. Mrs Delaney was 782 before she embarked on the 1000 flower collages, but she had already made a name for herself with her exquisite works of embroidery, decorative shellwork and landscape sketches ...
Demonstrates how to create decorations just by rolling, scrolling, fluting and fringing narrow strips of coloured paper. This book illustrates the functional and inexpensive hobby of paper quilling. It teaches how to make and use some basic shapes - teardrops, holly leaves and geometric designs.
Impress friends and family with origami-inspired cards, boxes and envelopes that pop up, fan out and even hold hidden messages. Using only basic techniques readers can make dazzling cards for all occasions, this title also features five different envelopes to make to store and protect creations. With "Origami Card Craft", crafters can impress ...
Sewing and paper crafts combine to create an exciting technique that is rapidly gaining industry interest. A winning list of projects including cards, frames, sachets and boxes are among the 12 machine embroidered projects beautifully illustrated and explained in step-by-step detail. Scrapbookers and those interested in machine embroidery alike ...
Beginners, intermediate and advanced artists will appreciate this guide to the ancient art of origami. Techniques with step-by-step illustrations are explained in this essential source.
"Kirigami consists of three-dimensional figures, sometimes called pop-ups, formed by slits cut in folded paper. This guide to an unusual...craft...is recommended for public libraries."--"Library Journal. "More than 45 patterns feature strikingly geometric forms. Each design is highlighted by complete directions, step-by-step color photographs, and ...
Create cards, keepsakes and gifts that are as innovative and surprising as the pop-up elements they feature. 30 dynamic designs incorporate 10 pop-up mechanisms and other ingenious 3D elements such as pull tabs, slider bars, turning wheels, concertinas and envelope reveals. Projects incorporate the most appealing and contemporary papercrafting ...
Michaels is one of the world's biggest specialist retailer of arts and crafts materials - it is the place that hundreds of thousands of crafters head for to get supplies for painting, floristry, home decorating, needle working, woodworking, glass and fabric crafts. From this definitive source comes an extraordinarily big, beautiful, and ...
Contains instructions for more than eighty two- and three-dimensional construction paper creations, including a Matisse cut-out, a hanging snake mobile, and a personal desk top robot.
Tear into 27 fresh, contemporary paper projects including how to make your own beautiful paper using recycled materials and plant fibers! - Each project has been thoughtfully designed by members of the Primrose Paper Arts, a group of teaching and exhibiting papermakers and bookbinders based in Sydney, Australia. - Step-by-step instructions and ...
What are Cootie Catchers? (Some people call them fortume tellers.) They're those folded paper things with the lift up flaps inside. Under the flaps lie secrets and mysteries too important to talk about here. You'll have to read the book.
The Usborne Book of Origami shows how to mas ter the art of paper folding, with handy tips and projects f or such things as party hats, jewellery, jumping frogs and a ction models. '
There is no papermaking book more complete in its treatment of sheet making variations. Papermaking expert Arnold Grummer shares techniques developed over 50 years of experimentation and research. With easy to follow instructions and color photos of beautiful handmade papers, Grummer provides guidance and inspiration so all papermakers can achieve ...
In a comprehensive introduction to the art of paper-making, Saddington gives clear instructions on how to make interesting and unusual papers with inexpensive equipment, and takes the reader through a series of simple projects designed to increase confidence and expertise. Topics include coloring and texturing, making paper from plants, and paper ...
Made up of 25 paper toys collected by the author, each project in this title includes an interview with the paper toy's designer, a diagram illustrating how to put the toy together, a photograph of the finished toy, and the template for the toy, to help readers to be able to create the toy themselves.
This isn't a book about how to write a proper letter--it's a book that makes writing and doodling more fun. Here's where girls will find super stationery ideas, crafty note-folding techniques, top-secret codes, fun lettering styles, silly sign-offs, and more. Illustrations.
Every couple wants to announce their wedding with style and aplomb. Savvy, stylish brides are looking for ways to add their own style and sophistication to their wedding without relying on tradition-heavy standards. This guide contains everything a bride should need to personalize her wedding correspondence elegantly, but also simply and ...
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