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B2548. Creative Correspondence/Jacobs
Creative Correspondence
By Michael & Judy Jacobs. 2003. 96pp. 8.5"x11". Paper. Retail Price $19.99
Includes more than 15 step-by-step projects including letters and envelopes with photo inserts, stapled booklets, envelope pockets, acetate address windows, and clever self-mailers.
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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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B2640. Designing Handcrafted Cards
Designing Handcrafted Cards: Step-by-Step Techniques for
Crafting 60 Beautiful Cards
By Claire Sun-Ok Choi. 2004. 96pp. 8.5x11". Paper. Retail Price $20.
Presents step-by-step instructions for simple card designs for a variety of occasions. Each card has an understated elegance. The author uses only a few basic card shapes, all
starting with a 5"x10" piece of card stock. Unique
techniques including paper quilling, decorative cutting,
piercing, embossing, layering and weaving are added to the basic card shapes to create truly beautiful designs.
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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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B2993. Paper Quilts
Turn Traditional Quilt Motifs into Contemporary Cards and Crafts by Sandra Lounsbury Foose.2007. 128pp. 8.5"x11". Paper. List price $21.95
Adapts for paper cards, traditional patchwork quilt designs with their playful complexity and geometric precision. Paper cutters will find patterns to copy, step-by-step instructions, and color photos of completed cards along with extra instructions for gift tags, ornaments, boxes, and garlands. Uses duplex, colored and patterned papers, text weight and cardstock.
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B2991. Teeny Tiny Cards
Little Projects that Make a Big Impression by Jane LaFerla. 2007. 128pp. 8.25x8.25. Hardcover List price $17.95.
40 easy-to-make card projects combining popular crafting techniques with small, inexpensive commerical products and on hand materials. All projects are 3.5x5 inches or smaller. Highly recommended by Rona Chumbook.
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B2989. Paper Transformed
B2989. Paper Transformed: A Handbook of Surface-Design Recipes and Creative Paper Projects by Julia Andrus. 2007. 176pp. 8.5"x11". Paper. List price $24.95.
Andrus’ book showcases over 100 techniques for transforming paper. There are step-by-step illustrated instructions for many traditional processes – many with new variations. Also included are new and original paper treatments and project applications. Some of the projects include beeswax collage, soot printing, leather paper and a gorgeous effect called Northern Lights. The final chapter includes 2 dozen *Sparkling Paper Projects* that use techniques from throughout the book. This book was so popular that the publisher had to order a second printing almost immediately!
Chapters include: Old Favorites and New Variations, Original Designer Papers, Metal Look-Alikes, Special Paper Treatments, Stamping Techniques, Stippling, Sponging, Stenciling, Paper Finales, & Sparkling Paper Projects.
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B2988. Painted Paper
B2988. Painted Paper: Techniques and Projects for Handmade Books & Cards by Alisa Golden. 2008. 178pp. Hardcover. List price $24.95 .
Alisa Golden shows how to paint paper using water-based media--primarily acrylic inks, gesso and paste. She first provides advice on paper/ink/paint choices, and introduces the tools needed to complete the projects. Every following chapter showcases multiple methods of painting techniques: washes, stencils, masking, gesso resist, paste papers (an entire chapter!), layered inks, and more. After working your way through the techniques presented, you will have a wealth of beautiful papers -- and in the final chapter, Alisa shows exactly how to use these great papers. Color photos and diagrams illustrate book/paper projects designed specifically to transform your newly painted papers into: an origami envelope, an accordion-folded album, and a decorative box, and much more! Packed with painting techniques and book projects, this title will keep your creative fires ablaze.
Chapters: Papers, Colors, and Tools; Acrylic Inks; Gesso & Stencils; Masking; Paints & Paste; Books and Projects.
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B2808. Pop Up! A Manual of Paper Mechanisms
Pop Up!: A Manual of Paper Mechanisms
By Duncan Birmingham
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B1704. Making Your Own Paper/Saddington
Making Your Own Paper: An Introduction to Creative Paper-Making
By Marianne Saddington
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