Jean Kropper's Handmade Books and Cards is one of the best resources available to the would-be book and card artist, offering a truly creative point of view in a well-illustrated volume that includes overviews of typography, printing, binding, book formatting, and decoration. The section on techniques, tools, and materials is nicely detailed, giving valuable tips on sizing handmade paper to eliminate its tendency to bleed, mixing your own glue and paste, and anchoring the bookbinding thread to the needle; Kropper's ideas for using a concertina fold are particularly inventive and well executed. Book and paper artists will turn to this book often for happy inspiration as well as detailed guidance. - 136 pages - Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 11.33 x 8.76
Fond memories are unique and personal, and should be protected as such. This appealing guide offers more than a dozen keepsake projects to hand craft, each one complete with illustrations and step-by-step instruction. Learn how to make photo memory albums, birthday books, wedding albums, journals, portfolios, home design booklets, and much more.
Known for her vibrant use of color and her bubbly enthusiasm, rubber stamp authority Dee Gruenig brings her unmistakable style to another eye-catching volume. This time the emphasis is on stationery items and other paper goods: cards, envelopes, address labels, gift-wrap and packaging, journal covers, calendars, and bookmarks, although she has included a number of other items such as aprons, ornaments, a necklace, and mouse pads. - 128 pages - Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 10.23 x 8.78
Book by Gillian Souter. Never send a store-bought greeting card again. Make 45 fabulous designs, shown here in full color, using basic papermaking techniques, lettering, decoupage, pop-up methods, embossing, and many other creative techniques. Complete and clear instructions and patterns give you fast results. Celebrate every occasion with these truly unique cards that special people in your life will treasure. - Dimensions (in inches): 0.39 x 9.99 x 7.24
The Ultimate Guide to the Perfect Word
10,000+ quotes, titles, tips & treasures beautifully arranged in this great book will make your scrapping, journaling or stamping FAST, FUN and EASY!
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Book by Maryjo McGraw. Here are hundreds of quick, creative, stamp-happy ways to make extra-special cards. The book includes 30 easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects in a range of styles for holidays, thank-yous, birthdays and other occasions. 231 color illustrations. - 128 pages - Dimensions (in inches): 0.42 x 11.03 x 8.53
Book by Anna Morgan - Paperback: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.40 x 10.40 x 7.50 - Crafting Beautiful Journals and Albums shows readers how to beautify their ready-made blank books and plain photograph albums with a range of different materials, from tree bark and dried leaves to copper sheets and handmade papers. Once they've mastered these techniques, they'll move on to creating their own books from scratch using genuine bookbinding techniques.
Card-crazy artist Lisa Kerr demonstrates how to make more than fifteen different card designs. Cards made with gift wrap, ticket stubs, and maps; cards that holds photos, mementos, and dried flowers; cards that fold-out, pop-up, and close with a button, are all featured plus many more designs. These cards are easy to make: just follow the step-by-step instructions shown in each chapter, or use the techniques to create designs of your own. - Dimensions (in inches): 0.39 x 10.96 x 8.47
Book by Alisa J. Golden - Handmade books can speak volumes (pardon the pun) about the person who created them. Some see the process as a craft; Alisa Golden treats it as an art form. Unwilling to make a choice between writing and art, Golden discovered that by making her own books she could do both, each enhancing the other. Her meticulously constructed creations are intricately folded; cleverly cut; carefully bound; adorned with letterpress, linoleum cuts, silkscreen, acrylic paints, rubber stamps, collage, decorative papers, and other ephemera; and filled with poetry, stories, images, or sometimes just snatches of words and abstract streaks of color. After nearly two decades of making books, she's still excited by each new production. That excitement comes through as she leads us on a journey of discovery from inception to finished book. Extensive directions and detailed diagrams teach us how to construct cut and folded books, sewn and/or glued structures, soft- and hardcover bindings, and variations such as portfolios, presentation boxes, and Jacob's ladder books.
Beautiful, boxed, hand made cards for all occasions can be created right in your own home. Our pattern-instruction books "Floral Punch Craft" and "Floral Punch Craft 11" with easy to follow diagrams show you how.
Making Journals By Hand will get you excited about keeping a journal again, with fresh ideas on how to make and keep your own daily journal, travel journal, garden journal, art journal, recipe journal, and more. Use art studio techniques such as rubber stamping, wax resist, leaf transfer, paper cutting, and plaster paper, to enhance and really personalize the pages of your journal.
Decorate Your Home Simply and Beautifully With Your Own Easy-To-Make Stamp Designs - Crafters of all levels find a wealth of fresh ideas for enhancing every room in the house with this book that combining stamping with other crafts such as stencilling, decoupage, decorative painting, sponging, and gold leafing for dramatic effects. 200 color illustrations. - by Grace Taormina - 160 pages - Dimensions (in inches): 0.52 x 10.03 x 7.73
Book & Rubber Stamp Kit by Judy Ritchie, Kate Schmidt, Jamie Kilmartin - The newest addition to the successful series includes everything needed to create beautiful cards, stationery, and other stamped crafts for loved ones of all ages. Unleash your creativity and make your own fabulous hand-stamped love notes--a craft for some, art for others. Full-color photos - 80 pages Book & Kit - Dimensions (in inches): 1.82 x 11.55 x 9.20
Book by Sue Doggett - Many unique books can be made by building on just two basic structures, the Eastern-based accordion fold and the Western-developed codex (the kind with sewn pages). Artist and bookbinder Sue Doggett explains both methods in detail, supporting the step-by-step instructions with colored diagrams. The book stresses process over product; the 10 projects in the final chapter are as fully explained as the techniques and variations in the first six chapters, but the scope of the project section is far more limited and the photos of finished products less numerous than in some other titles.
Book by Marie Browning - Craft designer Marie Browning has a knack for inventing wonderful books. Her exquisite creations are shown to great advantage in Handcrafted Journals, Albums, Scrapbooks & More in excellent photographs, and are well explained in step-by-step directions. Folded books, envelope books, and simple bound books come alive with decorative papers (for which she also provides instructions), textural covers, artfully threaded bindings, and lovely embellishments like metal charms, pressed flowers, clip-art labels, ribbons, embossed stamps, and more. Most projects are fairly easy, requiring more patience and time than advanced crafting skill.
