Illustrated Project Book of Making Gift Cards and Scrapbooking - Softcover

Owen, Cheryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780191944 ISBN 13: 9781780191942

Publisher: Southwater, 2012

Synopsis

This title offers 360 easy-to-follow projects and techniques with 2300 lavish photographs. This is the complete step-by-step guide to making your own greetings cards, gift wrap, gift tags, invitations, memory albums and scrapbook pages to treasure. You can make greetings cards for Mother's Day, Divali, Chinese New Year, weddings, anniversaries, Easter, Christmas, special birthdays, and just to keep in touch; create personalized scrapbook pages for themes on the changing seasons, children, family and friends, heritage, pets and sports. It presents a range of styles that will appeal to different tastes, from traditional and nostalgic to retro and cutting-edge, and with ideas suitable for adults and children of all ages. Every project and technique is shown in 2300 beautiful step-by-step photographs to ensure success. The complementary crafts of creative greetings cards and decorative scrapbooking offer the opportunity to create personalized designs that celebrate life's special events. This superb practical book contains 360 ideas, craft techniques and designs shown in 2300 evocative photographs. You can make a greetings card to celebrate New Year, a cute rabbit for a first birthday, and a gilded card for a wedding anniversary. You can create scrapbooking pages to remember a party, use sepia-tinted photographs for a display of a family wedding, and use mementoes for a lasting impression of a special holiday. With ideas to suit all tastes, this is the ultimate source book for crafters.

About this title

About the Author

Cheryl Owen is a highly experienced author and crafts artist. Her work regularly appears in leading homestyle magazines, including Prima, Inspirations, Good Housekeeping and Woman and Home, and she has written a number of books. Alison Lindsay is special projects co-ordinator on a leading scrapbook magazine, Scrapbook Craft. As well as writing many magazine features on the subject, she gives regular talks and demonstrations at craft fairs and hobby groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southwater
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780191944
• ISBN 13: 9781780191942
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512