Greetings cards
3 total works
Flowers, cats, butterflies, heart patterns and more can all be used to make wonderful designs which can be embellished with beads, stamped designs, craft stickers, and metallic, variegated and silk threads. Just cut out the template, follow the pattern and wind colourful threads around the card shapes. It's fun and many different effects can be achieved easily. Complete beginners and experienced crafters will be inspired by Polly's innovative approach to card making.
· Over 50 step-by-step photographs
· Simple projects and helpful patterns
· Cards for any occasion
· Fun and easy to do
The magical quality of glittering, sparkling greetings cards is bought to life by Polly Pinder in another of her highly successful books in this popular series. Her imaginative designs are both achievable and inspirational, and will appeal to beginners as well as experienced card makers. This book shows how to create enchanting, glittery greetings cards using the wealth of glitter products that are now available. Holographic and fluorescent papers, glinting sequins and jewels, glitter glues, tinsel-like thread and sparkly pipe cleaners, as well as recycled materials such as discarded Christmas cards, gift wrap and sweet wrappings, can all be used to enhance handmade cards and give them a magical sparkle.
The basic techniques used are very simple and are covered fully in the book, and the projects explain clearly, with full-colour photographs of every step, how to make six gorgeous cards, ranging from a shimmering red heart made from woven holographic paper strips, to a beautiful glittery balloon. No specialist equipment is needed.
Eyelets have always been a good way of attaching layers to cards, but nowadays they come in a huge range of sizes and colours, many with shaped inserts to add to their decorative appeal. Polly Pinder's shows how to attach eyelets using specialist piercing and setting tools and a hammer and cutting mat that most crafters will already own. The attaching process is then as simple as banging in a nail! Polly's wonderfullly creative designs show how to create six cards using eyelets in a variety of innovative ways: as flowers in a vase, seeds in a sunflower, autumn leaves or threaded with ribbon or chain to suspend a golden heart or a framed family portrait, or with gold thread to create the sun's rays. Templates are provided wherever necessary and there are many beautiful pictures to inspire all card makers, from beginners to experienced crafters.