This combination craft and gift book is full of inspirational gifts for a woman's best friend. Projects include gift-wrap, cards, bath salts, and earrings to name just a few! 'Girlfriends' features anecdotes and inspiring quotes.
This beautiful gift set provides everything crafters need to try the ancient Japanese art of egg decorating. These exquisite eggs make wonderful personalised gifts, keepsakes and decorations! This beautiful gift set gives crafters everything they need to try their hand at this ancient Japanese art - including a fully-illustrated guide that reveals all the secrets of paper-folding, cutting and application, as well as origami paper inspired by washi, handmade paper famous for its intricate designs...
For 15 years, designer Karen Petrus Williams has experimented and developed an array of shortcuts for creating heirloom-quality home decor, which she reveals here along with her finest projects. All are done on flea market purchases with acrylic paints, using simple yet eye-pleasing processes of building and blending on the surface. Colour photographs, worksheets and patterns guide even beginners through 20 lovely pieces, all exquisitely embellished with such vintage-style flourishes as floral w...
Candie Cooper shares her secrets in this gorgeously illustrated how-to guide. These accessible, sophisticated projects will inspire and delight. From collars and chokers to princess-length baubles and ropes to twirl and spin, here is a wardrobe of 40 necklaces to make and proudly show off. Expert crafter Candie Cooper shares her "necklaceology" secrets in an informative, gorgeously illustrated how-to guide that covers tools and materials, all manner of techniques, making components like wrapped...
French beading is a simple yet lovely art, beautifully described in this book, and illustrated in colour with more than 70 close-up photographs that show you how to "grow" a garden of 30 flowers with delicate seed beads. Forty additional illustrations present the exact placement for each particular flower part. Just string the beads onto wires and bend them into realistic, three-dimensional shapes; a helpful introductory section explains all the basic techniques.
The classic art of enamelling is experiencing a well-deserved renaissance - and it's stunningly captured in this curated survey. Over 300 international contemporary artists have contributed museum-worthy pieces, which range in scale from small pieces to large sculptures and public art. Some of the creators take a minimalist approach, using only soft colours and matte finishes, while others exploit the material's vibrant palette and glass-like surface. The broad technical applications include eve...
Ready-to-Use Christmas and New Year's Mortised Cuts (Dover Cut Art S.)
by Ted Menten
Shapes that tease the eye, textures that tempt one to touch, vibrant colours from the entire spectrum: this beautiful, dynamic, and intricate jewellery often echoes traditional designs from Africa to the Americas. Give your creative vision a workout with these innovative techniques for needlewoven necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and more. Choose from a feast of styles - a Mandarin pouch, Peruvian-based Orejon Man necklace, Navajo spirit pattern, and other amazing original pieces.
Creatively embellishing unfinished, ready-made frames is fun and easy. Sometimes it is hard to find just the right frame for a special photograph or piece of artwork, but using today's hottest techniques, you can personalise a wide variety of plain and old-fashioned frames with paint, fabric, wire, beads, paper, costume jewellery and other household leftovers.
In Make Your Own Great Earrings, you'll find 45 handsome projects to make (or to use as inspiration for your own original creations). You'll soon be creating earrings from silver wire, beads, polymer clay, paper, found objects, even fabric. Easy-to-follow instructions, full-color photographs, step-by-step illustrations, and helpful designer tips provide you with all you need to get started. The projects use easy-to-find tools and materials, too.
This is a guide to creating handmade gifts using your photographs and memorabilia. With a colour copier or laser printer, these images can grace a number of decorative items, using techniques such as transfering, tinting and decoupage. All the techniques are explained, with over 40 projects that include a vacation memory box, baby door sign, beaded photo purse, and bevelled glass ornament.
Etruscan jars on a screen, wild dancers in the style of Matisse, and a skyful of stars on wrapping paper: 6 pages of stencil motifs, ready to copy and apply, plus 16 projects burst with bold colors and graphic images. Here are exciting, contemporary looks to brighten any home. Brilliant photography guides you through a wealth of techniques--distressing, texturing, gold leaf--and media.
It is always nice to give away homemade presents which show individuality and transfer the joy and love they were made with. This book is an excellent source for all kinds of homemade gift ideas. From cooking and pickling to decorating and handicraft, you will learn how to prepare enchanting and practical presents. Five different chapters offer a choice of various specials to prepare: culinary treats (chocolate truffles), homemade cosmetics (massage oil), hand knitted fabrics (woolen scarf), or...
A how-to guide about making jewellery for beginners containing 17 new and original jewellery projects. Includes detailed instructions and helpful step-by-step photographs for each project. There is an informative and comprehensive basics section which has all necessary diagrams or photographs to make the Projects. Techniques and projects include: Bead Stringing - Beaded Necklace on Silk, Multi-strand Bracelet, Wire Wrapping - Simple earrings/ Chandelier earrings/ Stone Pendant, Pearl Knotting -...
PEPIN gift and creative paper books all contain 4 pages of introduction and 12 large sheets of very high-quality wrapping paper. They can easily be removed from the books by tearing them along a perforated line. The sheets are folded to fit into the book; when removed and opened they measure 50 cm x 70 cm (191/2 inch x 271/2 inch; a standard size for gift wrapping papers). Depending on the theme, we have selected a suitable light-weight paper quality. For example, papers with designs in gold, si...
Copper enamelling - essentially, the melting of glass enamel grains onto a copper surface - is an exciting and fascinating technique. Enamelling on Copper highlights the unique interactions between copper and enamels, and gives a detailed account of working with this wonderful combination. The basic technique - simply sifting ground enamels onto a copper surface and firing the two in a kiln for one minute - is a thrilling experience, but delving deeper into the techniques pays even greater rew...
Crafts That Celebrate Black History (Crafts & Activities)
by Kathy Ross
Every crafter - needleworkers, painters, scrapbookers - needs this guide! Colour is one of the first things we notice about a garment, necklace, or home accessory - and it can make or break a project. That's why anyone who has ever struggled to select the perfect blend of hues for a prized piece will immediately recognise its value. Here are thousands of tried-and-true combinations, all based on established tenets of colour theory, to choose from. And the volume features the unique ColorSense[tr...