The Complete Practical Book of Making Gift Cards and Scrapbooking

Author: Cheryl Owen
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
ISBN: 9781846813511
Category : Greeting cards
Languages : en
Pages : 512

Book Description
This lavish book is a collection of hundreds of practical craft techniques, inspirational ideas and fabulous designs. An introduction to each craft details all the materials and equipment that are needed to get started. Easy methods for making and decorating card and scrapbook page backgrounds follow, and there are tips on choosing design themes, putting tints and patterns together, and using embellishments to personalize each design. Many versatile craft techniques are featured such as papercraft, stamping, stencils, paint techniques, working with airdrying clay, simple sewing and embroidery.This is the ultimate sourcebook for all crafters.

The Illustrated Project Book of Making Gift Cards and Scrapbooking

Author: Cheryl Owen
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
ISBN: 9781780191942
Category : Gift wraps
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This title offers 360 easy-to-follow projects and techniques with 2300 lavish photographs. This is the complete step-by-step guide to making your own greetings cards, gift wrap, gift tags, invitations, memory albums and scrapbook pages to treasure. You can make greetings cards for Mother's Day, Divali, Chinese New Year, weddings, anniversaries, Easter, Christmas, special birthdays, and just to keep in touch; create personalized scrapbook pages for themes on the changing seasons, children, family and friends, heritage, pets and sports. It presents a range of styles that will appeal to different tastes, from traditional and nostalgic to retro and cutting-edge, and with ideas suitable for adults and children of all ages. Every project and technique is shown in 2300 beautiful step-by-step photographs to ensure success. The complementary crafts of creative greetings cards and decorative scrapbooking offer the opportunity to create personalized designs that celebrate life's special events. This superb practical book contains 360 ideas, craft techniques and designs shown in 2300 evocative photographs. You can make a greetings card to celebrate New Year, a cute rabbit for a first birthday, and a gilded card for a wedding anniversary. You can create scrapbooking pages to remember a party, use sepia-tinted photographs for a display of a family wedding, and use mementoes for a lasting impression of a special holiday. With ideas to suit all tastes, this is the ultimate source book for crafters.

The Encyclopedia of Greeting Card Tools & Techniques

Author: Susan Pickering Rothamel
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 1600590292
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Susan Pickering Rothamel, author of the best-selling Encyclopedia of Scrapbook Tools and Techniques (Sterling/Chapelle, 2005), now turns her A-to-Z eye to another popular papercraft: greeting cards. With its detailed definitions of terms, tools, materials, and techniques; illustrated how-to instructions; and hundreds of handmade cards from leading artists, this will become the must-have visual reference for anyone interested in the craft. Photographs of delightful greeting cards appear on every spread, along with step-by-step pictures of key skills. Sidebars on leading card makers discuss the techniques for which they’re celebrated, from Dee Gruenig’s rubber-stamp designs to Alli Bartkowski’s quilling.

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Scrapbooking

Author: Rebecca Ludens
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470366206
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Plain or fancy, formal or fun, chronicling special events or everyday moments, scrapbooks are the perfect, personal way to preserve precious memories and create lasting keepsakes. This visual guide walks you through choosing albums and papers, organizing and cropping photos, and more, and explains step-by-step essential techniques like journaling, designing appealing pages, and using embellishments to add pizzazz. The layout gallery gives you great ideas for travel, family, heritage, and other pages, while a chapter on organizing your stuff helps you keep everything in its place. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review Each skill or technique is defined and described Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance

The Practical Book of Card-Making

Author: Cheryl Owen
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754835189
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
200 step-by-step techniques and projects with 1100 photographs - a comprehensive course in making cards, envelopes, invitations, tags and papers in a host of different styles.

Calligraphy for Greetings Cards and Scrapbooking

Author: Peter E. Taylor
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN: 9781861088826
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Teaches adults and older children the skills needed to write calligraphically in a range of modern and traditional styles, suitable for every greeting card and scrapbooking purposes. This title also explains embossing, printing with carved erasers, linocut lettering and other techniques for creative lettering.

Card Making with Cricut

Author: Tanya Fox
Publisher: Annie's
ISBN: 9781596352827
Category : Greeting cards
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents over 40 greeting card designs that can be made with a Cricut Expression paper-cutting machine.

CardMaker's Sketch Book

Author: Tanya Fox
Publisher: Annie's
ISBN: 9781596351745
Category : Greeting cards
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Card sketches have quickly become a favorite creative resource among card makers. Your interpretation of these 45 sketches, along with your extensive stash of supplies results in a one-of-a-kind statement of your affection. We've included more than 220 projects to jump-start the creative process.

Step Up Your Scrapbooking

Author: Lisa Brown Caveney
Publisher: Primedia Scrapbooking
ISBN: 1929180969
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 1

Book Description
Scrapbooking is all about telling a story with photographs, journaling and design elements. This book shows you how to create beautiful layouts with just the basics (your photographs, cardstock, a pen) and teaches you how to choose and add one or more embellishments to your pages.

Outstanding Scrapbook Pages

Author: Memory Makers
Publisher: Memory Makers
ISBN: 9781892127303
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Presents a collection of more than 250 scrapbook pages that feature a variety of techniques for displaying photographs.