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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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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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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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Many people enjoy origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, and delight in the variety of shapes that can be created. Kirigami adds a new dimension by combining folding and cutting.
Within this book, you will find a brilliant and diverse range of projects that will show you the essentials of kirigami and build your skill in this fascinating art. From delicate snowflakes and dragonflies to decorative ornaments and attractive greetings cards,...
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Observe Purim with a handmade megillah or a hamentash. Create models of the four sons for Passover, and fashion a scroll for Simchat Torah. This clearly diagrammed manual provides simple directions for creating these and fifteen other origami projects to help observe Jewish holidays, both festive and solemn. Clearly detailed illustrations and captions explain all the steps for an entire year's worth of holiday projects--from Chanukah dreidels and...
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The first book from the "Learn Quilling" series, "Quilling Basics" is a book for beginners, with step by step instructions and pictures. The reader will discover the world of paper, a world of relaxation and creativity, in which simple strips of paper can become wonderful pieces of art. Reading the book "Quilling Basics", you will learn how to choose the best paper for your creation, tools needed, how to make paper strips at home and other tips. Using...
27) Fun With Washi!: 35 Ways to Instantly Refresh Your Home, Accessories, and Packages with Washi Tape
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Washi tape has become the obsession of crafters, scrapbookers, and package fanatics, and now they'll know just how many ways to use it! This inspiring craft book presents 35 delightfully unique and sophisticated projects for decorating the home, accessories, and stationery with washi tape. Using simple techniques and basic materials, crafters can create a pixel heart to adorn their walls, accessorize their favorite shirt with a bow brooch, or create...
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Announcing the biggest, best, most innovative book ever on paper craft. Even better, this is not about how to use costly, artsy paper, but how to turn stuff around the house-magazines and shopping bags, candy wrappers and paint sample cards, wrapping paper, old maps, and paper towel tubes-into stunning jewelry, gifts, home decor, party favors, and much more.
Chances are you've seen the author's cutting-edge work in the windows of Anthropologie, where...
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"Step by step, the reader is brought to art journaling in a method that makes even a novice want to pick up a paint brush and begin making art that expresses your soul. "-Diana Gonzalez, Brooklyn Crafting Examiner"Back when I was the managing editor of Art Journaling, I remember when Traci Bunkers' journals arrived on my desk. I spent hours pouring through them, wondering to myself, 'How does she do this? ' With Traci's new book, The Art Journal Workshop,...
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Featuring innovative techniques as well as traditional card-making methods, this instructional source provides crafters with detailed instructions for creating handmade cards with moveable parts. The designs featured in this collection include spinner, slider, waterfall, cylinder, peek-a-boo, wiper, suspension, shaker, hinged panel, pull-tab designs, and never-ending cards. Themed projects include a Christmas Cardinal double-wiper card, Surprise...
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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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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...
33) 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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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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Everyone likes pop-ups - and they love super pop-ups! These dynamic designs take the charming element of surprise a step farther, with patterns that slide, turn, spring, and snap. More than 30 projects include a dragon that turns into a bird, an albatross, a robot, a catcher's mask, skyscrapers, a castle, and other enchanting models. The easy-to-follow directions explain how to transform greeting cards, school assignments, and birthday gifts from...
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A selection of lettering samples, a review of necessary tools, and a tutorial for each alphabet round out this instruction book for card-making enthusiasts. Sample projects stimulate crafters, with 17 fonts to choose from, including Bubbly, Casual, Frosty, Typewriter, and Vacation. The ruled pages included at the back of the book can be photocopied and used for lettering practice.
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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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Introducing current, popular coloring methods for card making, this guide is divided into three instructional chapters that showcase a specific medium-watercolor, colored pencils, and alcohol ink. With an introduction to each medium, every one of the eye-catching designs in this book include a detailed walk through, a materials list, and coloring tips. A special section on how to accentuate designs includes suggested use for glitter pens and gel pens...
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