Create your own stunning flowers from paper with these 35 step-by-step projects Decorate your home using techniques such as simple origami, layered découpage, papier mâché and quilling. Using everyday giftwrap, colourful pages torn from glossy magazines, paper napkins and tissue paper to handmade paper, parchment paper and crinkly crepe paper, Denise Brown guides you through the process of making perfect paper flowers. You can display the flowers in vases, create bouquets and posies to give as...
An encyclopedia of beaded bracelet patterns for your small loom. Weaving beaded bracelets on a small bead loom is easy, and with the 500 patterns in this book you can make all kinds of creative designs! From bold graphic prints to animals and flowers to retro or southwestern designs, there are plenty of patterns to suit your style. Each pattern shows how many and what colour beads are needed and the placement of every bead so it's easy to complete any bracelet you choose. Make them to keep and...
Master the art of weaving with over 20 stunning projects Phoebe Jones is on a mission to make weaving accessible to all. In her debut book Made Weave Love Phoebe shows you the joys of weaving and how this gentle and intuitive craft can spark creativity in your life. Covering the very basics from the essential tools and how to build your own loom, to selecting the perfect yarn and finding colour and design inspiration, Phoebe carefully guides you through everything you need to get started.Packe...
Illustrated Step-by-step Guide to Stencilling and Stamping
by Luvinda Ganderton
How do you add sophistication and style to craft projects with shrink plastic, rubber stamps, and fun foam? Look to this bestselling author for a bounty of advice in this technique-packed book-then get ready to play!
The focus in this book is on easy ways to spruce up decorative accessories or fashion them from scratch quickly, choosing among 17 types of glue. Ready to decorate readers homes are a variety of picture frames; holiday trees comprising empty thread spools, pinecones, candy canes or other materials; Christmas ornaments; three-dimensional collages; bookends; and wreathes, among others.
Ron Ransom returns to the North Pole in his latest carving book on Santas. Here, through detailed instructions, step-by-step color photographs, and clear patterns, anyone can learn to carve the traditional holiday figure using simple hand tools. Painting techniques are also described in full, along with tips on “antiquing” your Santas, and many carving and painting hints on how to make small improvisations on the projects to make them all unique. Some of the Santas included here are a torch-bear...
Six Sisters' Stuff
by Six Sisters' Stuff Six Sisters' Stuff Six Sisters' Stuff
Like never before, people have the time to get the most out of their gardens, so that, more and more, they are becoming extensions of the home in which to entertain, relax and, of course, grow every type of plant using a plethora of planting techniques. With Simple Handmade Garden Furniture every garden can be given the personal touch, with items as diverse an unusual table which incorporates a herb planter, a ladder frame decorated with hanging baskets of bulbs and a simple rustic rope-entwine...