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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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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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298 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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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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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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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 For these projects, Lisa Occhipinti rescues and repurposes orphaned and outdated books from flea markets and library sales and turns them into new art objects and practical items for the home.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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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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• 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.
8) 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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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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Create your own stylish cards for all occasions with this collection of 21 simple papercraft designs.Discover how to make unique greetings that are sure to delight friends and family. With just a few clever techniques, it's quick and easy to transform basic materials into beautiful cards.Follow clear step-by-step instructions to make the 21 featured card designs, or be inspired to create your own personalized variations. All you need to get started...
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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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A one-of-a-kind set containing realistic floral elements for building arrangements and blooms to fit every season-tulips in spring, sunflowers for Thanksgiving, poinsettias for those festive winter months-this guide enables crafters of all skill levels to create handmade floral cards utilizing a single stamp set by Gina K. Designs. Organizing 32 projects by month and holiday, the book features detailed, step-by-step instructions for both simple and...
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This book acts as a showcase for a collaborative art project sponsored by artists Angela Cartwright and Sarah Fishburn. The project explores the theme of "gardens" as a metaphor for peace, beauty, tranquility, reflection, and creativity, while at the same offering readers an inspiring collage workbook that explores the techniques, methods, and the insights of the participating artists. The book includes inspiring garden-related quotes that artists...
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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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Are you spending more resources making the same boring, flawed knife?
You have made your first knife, a few maybe, but you still feel like you could improve and expand your skills. You have joined all forums, scoured the internet for material, but still find yourself a little bit short on information?
Are your knives losing their edge after sharpening them a few times? Are small details of imperfection in your blades bothering you? Do you want to...
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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...
18) 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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Just what is it about Magenta projects? What makes them so distinctive? There is certainly color galore, texture that you can "feel," and embellishments aplenty. Whatever the style, Magenta projects are built around simple, classic compositions. A card may be straightforward and symmetrical, the design centered on the page, or that same symmetric design may be shifted off-center to create an intriguing pattern. But, there is always an unmistakable...
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