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Bookbinding & Book Arts
Calligraphy & Illumination
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B2730. Memory Keepsakes
Memory Keepsakes: 43 Projects for Creating and Saving
Cherished Memories
By Connie Sheerin, Janet Penseiro, Barbara Mauriello,
Kathy Murillo. 2003. 304pp. 8.75"x11". Paper. Retail Price $19.95.
It’s easy to transform family treasures into wonderful, memory-filled gifts and home accessories. More than 30 projects present ideas for turning children’s artwork, grandmothers’ buttons, family photographs, and antique linens, etc., into contemporary keepsakes. Teaches collectors and crafters how to build 13 special boxes to
store favored mementos, such as cherished postcards,
letters, jewelry, photographs, and more. Over 250 photographs and illustrations are included.
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B2920. Colour Calligraphy/Graham
Colour Calligraphy
By David Graham. 1991, 48pp. 7.75"x10.25". Paper $12.95
while stock lasts
Shows how to use color in calligraphy by using various colored papers, inks, paints. and a color wheel. Provides info on materials and basic instruction for lettering and layout and design.
Exemplar Alphabets: Uncial, Gothic (blackletter), Versals, Italic, Foundational
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B2921. Creating Letterforms/Sasson
Creating Letterforms: Calligraphy and Lettering for Beginners
By Rosemary Sassoon and Patricia Lovett. 1992. 96pp. 7"x10". Paper $15.95 SALE
The first section is on classic calligraphy with exemplar alphabets for Uncials, Versals, Round hand, Blackletter, & italic and a series of projects. The second section is on learning about letterforms: how tools affect form, how letterform can suggest meaning, letter as pattern, and monograms. The last section is on teaching lettering in the schools.
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B2962. Complete Practical Guide to Cardmaking
Complete Practical Guide to Card Making
By Cheryl Owen. 2007. 256. 9"x11.5".Hardcover $29.95.
Many of the recent card books rely heavily on ready-made purchased items. This comprehensive book is more about creating rather than just buying and gluing. Starts with the basic: craft equipment and materials needed followed by papercraft techniques such as cutting, scoring, gilding, stamping, stenciling, making envelopes. Cover styles: working with natural materials, retro, contemporary, and vintage. The 150 step-by-step techniques and project for every occasion follow. 1000 color photos.
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B2985. Art Journals & Creative Healing
Art Journals & Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression
By Sharon Soneff. 2008. 128pp. 8.5"x11". Paper. List price $24.99.
With excerpts from beautiful and unusual artistic journals, demonstrates that journaling can be a tool supporting personal growth and in navigating through life's challenges. Through a marriage of beautiful imagery, uplifting and literary quotations, journaling worksheets and journal prompts the book helps readers get started with their own journals. Includes using mediums as metaphors, journaling for cathartic expression, gaining wisdom through introspection and reflection, finding strength in the midst of suffering.
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B3082. Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials / McGraw
B3082. Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials by MaryJo McGraw. 128pp. 8.5"x11". Paper $22.99
For card making in this instructional book, MaryJo McGraw employs a wide range of papers, fabrics, ribbons, mica chips, foils, feathers, yarns, wax, embossing powders, store-bought tags, and household and hardware store items. Includes: basic folds and sizes of greeting cards, info about weights, grains and varieties of paper, suitable adhesives, eight basic card making techniques (with corresponding step-by-step projects), projects suitable for beginners and experienced crafters, and complete "in under an hour" projects. While these are new copies, they may show a little shelf wear on the covers.
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B3084. Card Shop/Sandra Lounsbury Foose
B3084. Card Shop / Sandra Lounsbury Foose.
The Card Shop : A Dazzling Collection of Handmade Paper Greetings by Sandra Lounsbury Foose. 2000. 128pp. 9.25"x11". Paper $17.95. SALE $4.98
Fifty cardmaking projects complete with templates and step-by-step instructions so you can cut out and construct. They start with simple fold-and-cut designs, move on to more involved cutouts, and include easy, 3-D constructions. There are cards for each of the four seasons, major holidays, and for no occasion at all. Start off with easy cut-fold-paste projects like the simple Egg Bunny Card or colorful Christmas Cracker Card. Then move on to make amazing 3-D designs - try the Origami Kite Card or the Best Witches Card for Halloween.
Each project is presented with easy step-by-step drawings and full-size patterns. Bright colorful photographs throughout will inspire you to get reacquainted with this simple and most versatile of all craft materials - paper!
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B3087. Men of Letters and People of Substance /de Vicq
Men of Letters and People of Substance by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. 2007. 96pp. Paper $14.95.
Using his computer, de Vicq takes printer's type and ornaments ("dingbats") and common linecuts to form the faces of his literary heroes. In the second part, he combines type ornaments and icons to suggest a face with singular attributes: pride, fear, fanaticism, and surprise. But these are not drawings; they are images arranged from the combination of specific and discrete graphic forms. They bring to mind a calligram, but these are wholly original, totally inventive. Printed throughout in two colors.
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B3088. Letter Perfect: Modernist Typography / Ryan
Letter Perfect: The Art of Modernist Typography 1896-1953 by David Ryan. 2001. 112pp. 8" x 10" Hardcover $30.00. Sale $14.98.
Primarily through posters, this book explores the art and evolution of typeset matter: the styles, arrangement, and appearance. The selections within the book are reproductions from the archives of the Print and Drawing Collections of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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B3117. Handmade Gift Cards / Cheryl Owens
Handmade Gift Cards: Over 50 Original Designs for All Occasions by Cheryl Owens. 2001. 128pp. 8x9.5. Paper $19.99. SALE
Over 20 step-by step card projects. Techniques include Metal foil, flat gilding, stenciling, paint resists, wire work. Embellishments are mostly common materials or created: Buttons, sequins, small feathers, bay leaves. The balsa wood, corrugated cardboard, eyelet, bird house is delightful. The cards are not for specific holidays or events.
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