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Houseplants are everywhere--on Instagram, in the media, and in trendy homes all over the world. In Handmade Houseplants, expert crafter and tastemaker Corrie Beth Hogg offers a no-water necessary alternative: plants made from paper! This stylish guide includes step-by-step instructions for 30 of the most popular houseplants, from monstera and peperomia to fiddle leaf fig and philodendron. Additional projects show how to use paper plants for home décor,...
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Using a variety of formats, collaborative art projects result in wonderfully complex pieces, and often provide the glue between artists within a community. Heavy on visual inspiration, Collaborative Art Journals and Shared Visions in Mixed Media covers various organizational structures for collaborative art projects, offers instructions and tips for organizing such ventures, and includes interviews with organizers and participants of collaborative...
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We all love to read and learn from books, but The Repurposed Library takes our passion even further, presenting us with 33 projects to make--quite literally--out of books. For these projects, Lisa Occhipinti rescues and repurposes orphaned and outdated books from flea markets and library sales and turns them into new art objects and practical items for the home. Her creations range from artfully constructed mobiles, wreaths, and vases, to functional...
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From the creators of Scor-Pal(R) scoring boards, Easy Mini Albums will provide the joy of crafting and preserving precious memories all at the same time. These delightful mini albums are fun to make, and easy to decorate and embellish to fit the occasion. Simply choose the paper or cardstock of choice, gather a scoring board, paper trimmer, and adhesive, and you're set! Detailed instructions, step-by-step photography, full-size cutting and scoring...
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Leading fraktur artist Ruthanne Hartung provides instruction, patterns, inspiration. Full-color throughout. Ruthanne Hartung was a fraktur artist for more than thirty years. She was a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and was selected as one of the top 200 traditional American craftsmen by Early American Life magazine.
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Step-by-step instructions for creating papier-mâché monstrosities and expanding the limits of your imagination, from the author of Paper Mache Dragons
Celebrated monster-making master Dan Reeder is at it again-helping others to let out their inner monsters! All that's needed are a few simple materials and a wild imagination. Reeder guarantees success if the tried-and-tested, goof-proof how-to steps in this humorous read are followed. But there's...
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Collage Lab offers artists and crafters a fun and experimental approach to making art. The book is organized into 52 different labs which may, but don't need to be, explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired by a particular collage theme or application. The underlying message of this book is that artists can and should learn and gain expertise...
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What began as an Instagram hashtag and project collection (#CrafttheRainbow) that quickly went viral has become a showstopping book, offering a rainbow of completely new project ideas. Learn how to make playful party decorations, luscious flowers, amazing cards, and sophisticated wreaths, garlands, centerpieces, and more than you can imagine--all with nothing but the creative power of paper. Sought-after designer Brittany Watson Jepsen is known for...
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143 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Christmas is the perfect time to brighten your home and delight family and friends with handmade decorations, ornaments, stocking stuffers, greeting cards, gift packaging. In these thirty beautiful holiday-themed projects, Alli Bartkowski shows you how to roll, shape, and glue colorful paper strips into eye-catching framed art for your mantel, a handsome nutcracker figurine to display, dainty snowflake ornaments to hang on your tree, and a stunning...
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Create an individual greetings card for any occasion whether it be a birthday, anniversary, wedding, driver's test, newborn baby, new home, or get-well-soon card from one of the ingenious designs in this fantastic collection. Taking the three most popular and easiest techniques, these quick and colorful cards are made from using stamps, stencils and stickers combined with an amazing array of printed colored papers. Inventive designs with stamps include...
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• Includes 15 preprinted, ready-to-cut designs!
• Make your own colorful pop-up cards simply by cutting, scoring, folding, and gluing ordinary papers and cardstock
• Detailed instructions and full-size patterns for 20 cards for birthdays, holidays, special events, invitations, and greeting cards.
15) Interlocking and 3D Paper Airplanes: 16 Models from One Sheet of Paper Without Any Cutting or Gluing
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This book contains instructions and diagrams for you to fold sixteen interlocking and 3D paper airplanes. Eight of these airplanes have enclosed three-dimensional fuselage, with a hollow cavity, similar to real airplanes. These paper airplane designs and their folding concepts are all originals. They are probably amongst the most elegant and sophisticated paper airplanes you have ever seen. Each of these Interlocking and 3D paper airplanes is made...
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Details that add a personal touch! This series is filled with ideas to inspire today's bride-to-be. Each volume is filled with extra-special touches that will quickly and easily personalize any event-whether it's in a ballroom or at the beach. A memory scrapbook, table lanterns, a fishbowl of wishes, and save-the-dates-these are just a few of the ways to work with paper to make a one-of-a-kind wedding. There are a wide range of projects and additional...
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This volume is a complete illustrated step-by-step guide to the marbleizing process. Create beautiful marbled papers for craft projects with 12 designs including stone, fantasy, comb, wave, tiger, and batik. Decorate books, boxes, lamp shades, picture frames, wallpaper, and more. 32 illustrations. 6 color papers on covers.
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Paper folding crafts are fun for all ages! You'll be amazed at what you can create with pretty paper and a few strategic folds. Colorful Froebel stars can be, used as ornaments, table decorations, candleholders, and more, and a variety of other shapes make festive gift toppers, toys, mobiles, and garlands.
• Step-by-step, illustrated instructions show you how to make more than 30 different designs
• Projects range from simple to complex, so there...
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Papercutting is an ancient, elegant art that dates almost as far back as the creation of paper itself. In today's multicultural world, papercutting embraces any number of themes, designs, and images. It is an all-inclusive art that requires few tools and minimal materials. All one needs is instruction and inspiration, both of which are found in good measure in The Art of Papercutting. The book includes more than 20 projects that feature a range of...
20) Cardmaking
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to say whatever you want creatively with hand-made greeting cards. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy ebook format with colour photos and expert advice throughout.
Why spend a small fortune on generic high street greeting cards when you can create your own personalised message with just a few pieces of paper and the right book to guide you?
This book is your essential companion to making...
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