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B2877. Collage Unleashed/Bautista
Collage Unleashed: Paint, Bind, Stitch, Play
By Traci Bautista. 2006. 128pp. 8.5"x11". Paper. Retail Price $22.99.
Combines collage, altered fabric and journaling. The projects include art books, fabric journals and mixed-media paintings using paper, fabric, beads, dyes, paints & more.
Techniques include crayon transfers, funky embroidery, and bookbinding.
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B2807. Paper Engineering: 3D Design/Avella
Paper Engineering: 3D Design Techniques for a 2D Material
By Natalie Avella. 2006. 160pp. 9" x 10.25". Paper. Retail Price $30.00.
This full color book presents a gallery of commercial works using innovative folds, cuts and bindings. It’s targeted to graphic designers, but is equally interesting and inspiring for those who do artists books and those who love to make innovative structures. There are holiday cards, invitations, promotional leaflets, business cards and more. Includes both work for clients and work for self. For most there is
info on the piece and its production process.
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B2594. Comp Guide to Card Making
The Complete Guide to Card Making
By Sarah Beaman. 2003. 160pp. 8.75"x11.75". Hardcover.
This big book presents 100 techniques with 25 original projects. Techniques include a variety for decorating edges of cards, sticking and fixing, decorating paper, transferring images, stenciling and printing, spraying and stamping, stitching, fabric and ribbon, punching and piercing, using botanicals, collage, embossing, metallic effects and relief effects. Projects include anniversary, birthday, valentine, new baby, wedding, Easter, and Christmas cards as well as invitations for a children's party, wedding, and dinner party.
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B2607. Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellery
Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellery
by Suzen Millodot. 2003. 80pp. 8"x10". Paper
Binders will find techniques and decorative knots useful in binding projects. Adapt the instructions to create necklaces, broaches for your books, beaded ties, delightful dangles. And it’s great for creating beaded jewelry using decorative cords tied in both functional and decorative knots.
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B2764. Creative Beads from Paper & Fabric
Creative Beads from Paper & Fabric
By Ann Kirsten Krier. 2004. 48pp. 8.5x11. Paper.
Includes choosing materials, techniques and step-by-step instructions for making beads of rolled up paper and fabric. They are either glued or tied. Includes ideas for using your beads to decorate cards, gift bags, collage, journals, and boxes. Also ideas for embellishing a scarf/wrap, handbags, jewelry, lampshade and art quilts. Full color through-out. While not explored in this volume, you may find many uses for these beads in your books. The paper beads use small pieces of colorful paper – something you may already have an endless supply of!
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B1876. Collage Techniques/Brommer
Collage Techniques
B1876. A Guide for Artists and Illustrators by Gerald Brommer. 1994. 160pp. 8.25"x11". Paper.
Covers techniques: gathering, cutting, tearing, gluing, overlaying, and finishing; various materials: oriental papers and water media; stained papers, prepared papers, found papers, photographs, and fabric; and explores collage in figurative and abstract compositions. 230 full-color illustrations.
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B2635. Quick & Clever Handmade Cards
B2635. Quick & Clever Handmade Cards:
Over 80 Projects and Ideas for All Occasions by Julie Hickey. 2004. 105pp. 8.5"x11".
These colorful and cute cards use a wide range of simple techniques such as stamping, paper weaving, embossing and punches. 16 cards are presented with step-by-step instructions. Variation cards and additional design ideas are given for each. My favorite is the new home card that cleverly incorporates one of those multi-color paint “chip” strips from the home improvement store!
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B2750. Walnut Ink: Fabulous Techniques
B2750.Walnut Ink:
Fabulous Techniques and Dozens of Ideas for Cards, Books, Scrapbooks, Photos and More by Beverly Seymour. 2004. 34pp. Paper
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V28. Paper Delights VIDEO
V28. Paper Delights
by Cherryl Moote. 2004. 60 minutes. VHS.
The companion video. Presents techniques such as dry embossing, iris folding, paper quilting, bargello, basic paper folding and beginning book folding for accordion and lotus books. It is ideal for papercrafters just starting out with card making, origami and bookbinding. You get to see techniques demonstrated. Cutting sizes and detailed instructions for the projects are found in the book Paper Delights.
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B2939. More Packaging Prototypes
More Packaging Prototypes
By Edward Denison. 2007. 159pp. 9.5"x11". Paper. Retail Price $40.00.
While it says packaging, for us it’s "143 innovative paper boxes and other structures mostly made with no glue or other adhesives all with detailed patterns showing folds." All examples are shown in white card only, but you immediately
start thinking at them in color, or made with decorated paper. And about the possibilities, not so much for the two-drink holder, but for the hexagonal box, ten-sided box, frilled octagonal carton, web-cornered cube...
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