Card and Thread Greetings Cards - Softcover

Pinder, Polly

 
9781844480050: Card and Thread Greetings Cards
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844480054 ISBN 13: 9781844480050
Publisher: Search Press, 2004

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Polly Pinder studied graphics at Leeds Art College. Her first job was with a Yorkshire newspaper, and she subsequently worked as a lecturer in graphic design at Wakefield District College. She has written and illustrated a number of books on a variety of other subjects including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when that book won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper book based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.

Polly now works from her pottery studio creating beautiful, small-batch candle holders and large food platters.

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Popular subect and popular techniques Part of the Handmade Cards series Fun for the family - inexpensive hobby

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Publisher
Search Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1844480054
ISBN 13 
9781844480050
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
48