The Big Book Of Handmade Cards And Gift Wrap

Handmade cards are a delight both to give and to receive, and coordinating gift wrap adds an extra special touch. This book presents a range of beautiful and fun cards, boxes, bags, and gift wrap suitable for all occasions. Book jacket.

Following on from the success of The Big Book of Greetings Cards, this is another highly practical and inspirational book from Vivenne Bolton. In this book there are over 50 brand new projects and designs which use all of the wonderful materials now available to card-makers - stickers, transfers, napkins, wire, foam, rivets, punches - the list is endless. There are ideas for cards, boxes, bags, tags, wrapping paper and envelopes. Every project is illustrated step-by-step, along with beautiful photographs of the finished stationery. There are ideas for all occasions - birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, Christmas, Easter, Hallowe'en, new baby, new home and many general cards to cover all of those occasions when a card says it best. The galleries in the book illustrate how one design motif or tool can be used to create a variety of different results. This book is simply bursting with new ideas.

This big papercrafting book is bursting with creative inspiration for impressive cards, boxes, bags, tags, wrapping paper and envelopes. You'll find practical ideas here for all occasions--birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, new baby, new home and more.

This big papercrafting book is bursting with creative inspiration for impressive cards, boxes, bags, tags, wrapping paper and envelopes. You’ll find practical ideas here for all occasions—birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, new baby, new home and more.

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.

Offers more than 500 card projects from recent special issues of Card Creations, published by the editors of Paper CraftsR magazine.

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.