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If you have been thinking of creating an art journal --or if you've already started one--you'll find valuable inspiration here. Packed with creative ideas and encouraging words, this book will get you going with inspiring examples, helpful information, and meaningful techniques. Artist and author Suzanne McNeill reveals everything you need to know to become an accomplished sketch journalist. She shares insightful tips on choosing a subject, sketching...
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Parchment craft is the art of cutting, perforating and embossing parchment paper to create delicate, lace-like designs for greetings cards and other stationery, table decorations, fans, boxes, lampshades, paperweights, gift-wrapping and much more. Pergamano[trademark] Parchment Craft includes full step-by-step instructions for an exciting range of projects that will appeal to all age ranges and capabilities. The 15 attractive projects use readily...
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The important finishing details that will complete an image and give it a polished, professional look are highlighted in this fourth installment of the Copic Coloring Guide series. The crafting handbook discusses light source in-depth, from highlights to shadows and shading, and provides step-by-step tutorials for adding details with the Multiliner pen and creating backgrounds with the Airbrush System. It also teaches techniques for no-line stamping,...
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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.
25) 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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Over 1,000 journal pages presented in one beautiful full-color book Journals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life. This would be the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal...
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Bringing professional-looking cards into the realm of do-it-yourself home crafting, this reference teaches the processes for embellishing fabric, pressing flowers, handstitching easy designs, and using paper napkins to create stunning card art. Encapsulating the unique joy of mini cards, this book-buttressed by dozens of color photographs-weaves a number of crafting techniques that will appeal to card makers, art enthusiasts, and general crafters...
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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...
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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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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...
32) 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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• 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.
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The fresh and unique iris folding projects featured in this book are perfect for commemorating special occasions with beautiful handcrafted greeting cards. Intended for crafters at an intermediate skill level, the 20 designs employ both traditional and nontraditional iris folding techniques and make use of materials ranging from fabric, tissue paper, cardstock, ribbon, and specialty papers. Patterns and apertures can be mixed and matched to create...
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Containing informative and educational material for using the popular Copic markers, this guide presents card designs and instructions in an easy-to-follow format filled with tips for expanding coloring skills. The sample projects provide examples of the most current and popular card-making techniques used by paper crafters today. Ideal for card makers, coloring artists, and drawing enthusiasts, this book features advice from a Copic certified...
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Coloring Techniques for Paper Crafts contains 13 creative projects and demonstrates step by step more than 16 ways to use many of the hottest coloring products on the market today. From tutorials on applying color to a stamped image using alcohol ink markers, colored pencils, and watercolors, to a fresh look at how to use heat embossing, inks, and chalks, to discussing how or when to apply glitter and more, crafters will be challenged to use products...
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Featuring the artwork of over 25 leading artists with name recognition As art journaling grows in popularity (even attracting a new breed of scrapbookers who call themselves "life artists"), there is a movement afoot toward creating more authentic, personal, what some people call "raw" journals. These journals are filled with not just attractive, well-composed pages, but pages that are filled with personal, meaningful content. True Visions is focused...
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Some of the highest-quality art markers on the market, Copic markers continue to grow in popularity for paper crafters, and this informative and instructional book assists crafters of all levels in mastering Copic coloring skills. In addition to an explanation of the color-coding system, suggestions for compatible inks and papers to use, and step-by-step tutorials on the most popular coloring techniques, this go-to resource also includes a variety...
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Elegant, artistic, inspiring, magical-all terms used to describe Magenta, a unique company in Quebec, Canada, whose glorious papercrafting products and work are sought after and admired by papercrafters.
An inspiring combination of inventive ideas, tips, and techniques on creating memorable projects, offering more than fifty imaginative scrapbook pages, album covers, cards, invitations, stationery, picture frames, Christmas tree ornaments, decorative...
40) Quilted Cards
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This four page leaflet showcases the work of quilt and card designer, Linda Davis. Enjoy three timeless designs: patchwork, pinwheel and basket with yo-yo flowers.
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