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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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B2634. Fast Cards
Fast Cards: Techniques and Projects for Producing Greetings Cards - Quickly by by Sarah Beaman. 2004. 128pp. Hardcover $19.95
More than 300 photographs and illustrations, plus easy-to-follow instructions and a host of imaginative techniques, turn greeting and holiday card making into a quick and fun art for anyone. The clever decorative tricks and techniques include working with paper fasteners, stenciling, printing with found objects, and even potato printing. There are tips for choosing paper, inks, and other materials, along with instructions for setting up a miniature assembly-line operation that can produce 100 or more handmade cards in a surprisingly short time.
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B3125. Encyclopedia of Greeting Card Tools & Techniques/Rothamel
The Encyclopedia of Greeting Card Tools & Techniques by Susan Pickering Rothamel. 2008. 304pp. 8.5"x11". Hardcover $24.95. JNB $19.95
An A-to-Z on greeting cards with detailed definitions of terms, tools, materials, and techniques; illustrated how-to instructions; and hundreds of handmade cards from leading artists - a thorough visual reference. This is an inclusive approach that covers both the most basic as well as specialized terms. 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.
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B3103. Pop-up Cards and Other Greetings / Genovese
Pop-up Cards and other Greeting that Slide, Dangle & Move by Sandi Genovese. 2008. 128pp. 8.6"x10". Paper
Available May 2012
This book of bright, colorful, classy card projects is now available in paperback. With these you use your X-Acto knife, bone folder, circle punches and plain, richly colored and patterned papers as well as some die-cut pieces and stickers to make cards instead of just embellishing a fold of paper. The 25 projects use innovative book structures for cards: flutter cards, star cards, cut-out accordion cards, contra accordion cards. The purchased die-cut pieces speed construction of these fairly elaborate greetings, but you can always make your own. Includes thank you, congratulations, Christmas, birthday, wedding, and new baby.
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B3120. Paper Pop Up / Wood
B3120. Paper Pop Up: 40 Dynamic Designs for Surprising Cards and Gifts by Dorothy Wood. 2006. 112pp. 8.25"x10.75". Paper $19.99. Sale $8.95
The projects are centered on events: Mothers Day, Easter, Fathers Day, Wedding, Birthdays, Halloween, Christmas. For each of the holidays, the projects have matching color schemes and decorative elements. Ingenious elements abound: pop-ups, turning wheels, pull tabs and slider bars, envelope reveals. Cards open to reveal a blooming bouquet of flowers, a stack of baby building blocks, cars, clowns and more. There's a colorful interactive advent calendar, a fun Easter gift box, board books, photo frames, scrapbooks, table decorations, party surprises. Step-by-step instructions, tips and templates are provided. Full of charming ideas.
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B3121. Creative Cardmaking: A Complete Guide
Creative Cardmaking: A Complete Guide: 480pp. 8.5x11". Hardcover $24.95.
This is four greeting card books for the price of one: Mary Jo McGraw's Greeting Cards for Every Occasion and Vintage Greeting Cards. Judy & Michael Jacobs' Creative Correspondence, and Judith Barker's, Stenciling & Embossed Greeting Cards. All four books are included in this one hardcover volume. Limited supply at the sale price.
Michael Jacobs' Creative Correspondence is out-of-print otherwise and is alone worth the price of this book.
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B3332. Great Paper Crafts / Ritchie & Kilmartin
Great Paper Crafts: Ideas, Tips, & Techniques by Judy Ritchie and Jamie Kilmartin with Deborah Cannarella. 2004. 10.25"x10.25". 132pp. Hardcover
Make personalized notes, cards and other paper crafts with this great book of unique projects and paper possibilites.
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B3320. Playing with Books / Thompson
Playing with Books: Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book by Jason Thompson. 2010. 154pp. 8"x10". Paper
List Price: $24.95
Presents step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique objects. The book combines bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques, along with a healthy dose of experimentation and fun. Includes a gallery of thought-provoking and beautiful works.
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B3323. Constructing and Covering Boxes / Hollander
Constructing and Covering Boxes: A Beginner’s Guide by Tom & Cindy Hollander. 2009. 64pp. 8.5"x11". Paper
If you want to make boxes, you need to buy this book. It is a treasure.
Tom and Cindy present very thorough instruction for only two box projects: a hinged box and a clamshell box. Each stage of the box is broken down into detailed steps, each illustrated with a good color photo. (There are over 230 photos in the book.) Using the book is similar to having a master box maker demonstrating the construction for you - and also showing you all the small techniques that are so important in a well-crafted box. First, they show and tell you the tools and materials you will need and why you need them. Then they present how to determine the grain of book board, bookcloth, and paper. Next is cutting board and covering materials, followed by two pages and thirteen instructional photos presenting the essentials of gluing. Now you are ready to learn how to make the two boxes! At the end of the book are fill-in-the-blank worksheets to figure each of the pieces needed for different sizes of the two boxes, plus a glossary and thirty examples of boxes to inspire you. Dimensions are given in inches.
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B2998. Photo Op / Moote
B2998. Photo-Op by Cherri Moote. 2007. 132pp. 8.5"x11". Spiral Paper
From vintage images to the instant images of the 21st century we are surrounded by photographs. Are you looking for some great projects to showcase those images? In Photo Op you will find simple display options, clever storage projects, fun albums, arty showcases, and heritage albums. Book artists will find that the projects are versatile, allowing them to explore imagery, form and structure in exciting ways. Examples and suggestions given throughout the book act as a springboard for further artistic explorations.
Photo Op includes instructions for 15 projects and countless variations. Instructions are clear and precise, amply diagrammed with line drawings and further illustrated with both black and white and color photographs of the projects.
The 15 projects -- Meishi Photo Folders, Freeze & Easelback Frames, Photo & Meandering Corners, Photo Cubes. Books:Turkish Mapfold, Origami Pocket, Photo Carousels, Bellows. Albums: Gallery, Stab Bound, Post & Screw, Heritage Hinge.
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