Create your own greetings cards at home in a range of beautiful colours, shapes and designs.
Over 35 stunning card designs for birthdays, weddings, retirements and many more celebratory events.
Step-by-step photographs and simple instructions
Information on tools, materials, techniques and useful hints and tips throughout
Learn all the latest techniques to give your cards a truly professional finish
Ultimate Cardmaking brims with techniques intended for both the beginner card enthusiast and seasoned crafter. Featuring a stunning selection of cards suitable for every occasion. Go on, play your cards right!
- Comprehensive guide featuring over 100 techniques.
- A wide range of projects and a selection of fast cards.
- Clear step-by-step photography and detailed instructions accompany every technique and project.
Full of stylish, easy crochet projects, to create a range of desirable gifts, clothes and items for the home.
This is the perfect book for the true novice with a workshop section, which covers everything from basic stitches to finishing.
The best advice you can get without an experienced crocheter by you side
Full of stylish, simple projects that make beautiful, elegant and professional-looking cards.
Quick and easy techniques and step-by-step projects, plus ideas for matching items.
Learn to make inexpensive and quick invitations, tags and gift wrap. It's the perfect introduction to the world of card making.
Beautiful linens, when well cared for, are timeless in their beauty. These creative and fun projects made with traditional stitches allow you to fashion treasured heirlooms for your friends and family. Veteran author Cheryl Fall has included designs inspired by vintage linens from her personal collection, as well as her own independently-inspired creations. You will learn how to both create and care for your handmade treasures and how to make smart purchases when adding to your vintage collection. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, this book will inspire you.
Learn how to transform ordinary eggshells into these stylish and eye-catching ornaments. Starting with a blown eggshell, you can create elegant trinket boxes which open to reveal a sumptuous fabric interior, or even a complete miniature scene. Many different styles of decoration can be applied to the surface, and the finished project mounted on a graceful stand. Elaborately decorated eggs are traditional gifts in many countries. The extravagant jewelled pieces created by Carl Faberge for the Russian imperial family are the most famous examples; these were fashioned from precious metals and gemstones, but real eggs and simple materials can make delightful decorations for the home and special gifts for friends and family. Basic eggcraft techniques are not difficult, and no elaborate equipment is needed to start. To inspire your creativity, the book includes full instructions for making more than 30 different designs, illustrating a wide range of decorative techniques.
Draw Your Own Graphic Novel is a comprehensive full-colour guide to
creating authentic comic book art, comic strips and visual storytelling!
Clear, step-by-step instructions make it easy for readers to recreate
impressive drawings of their own - chapters include: Creating Heroes,
Creating Villains, Dynamic Figure Drawing, Penciling and Storytelling,
Inking and Colouring and Creating a Cover.
This beautifully presented collection of classic and modern baby ear designs by Christine Eames will inspire both the novice and more experienced machine knitter. Inside you will find techniques rarely practised by the home knitter, including hand-tooling, designs on the ribber, pile knitting, and the art of plating, as well as instructions on how to achieve crochet-effect knitting, cabling, slip stitch, bobble stitch and jacquard. Christine also demonstrates how to use yarns such as chenille and viscose ribbon successfully and even shows how to enhance garments with embroidery, fleece, lace and appliqu
In this delightful book, Hilda Stokes shows you how to make enchanting three-dimensional pictures out of paper, gift-wrap and prints. The enticing projects demonstrate how the pictures can be framed, crafted into jewellery, applied to decorate gift boxes, card, clip-frames and even an impressive side table that is worthy of being the centrepiece of any home!
With helpful step-by-step instructions, colour photographs throughout and easy to follow cutting-guides, these projects are suitable for the complete beginner, and are not only enjoyable to create, but make unique gifts for any occasion.
Projects Include:
full of stylish, easy knitted projects that make perfect gifts or an attractive addition to anyone's wardrobe.
Get to grips with knit, purl, lace and Fair Isle in a Workshop section, which covers everything from casting on to finishing.
The best advice you can get without an experienced knitter by your side - it's the perfect introduction to the world of knitting
A diamond my be a girls best friend, but these days beads are not far behind. I love Beading shows you how to make hand-beaded jewellery and accessories that are stylish, inexpensive, and much more special than costly, mass-produced necklaces and bracelets.
25 bags to knit Here is a unique and exciting selection of 25 contemporary hand-knitted bags, specially created by knitwear designer Emma King. They range from big stripey hand-held bags, to small clutch bags, to super-functional baby bags, to chic evening purses. The designs use a wide range of techniques, including intarsia, embroidery, crochet, Fair Isle and entrelac. Each bag is illustrated with a stunning full-colour photograph, plus a close-up detail of the pattern, and comes with full knitting instructions and accurate charts. There are details of alternative colourways and added embellishment options. A workshop section focuses on the best yarns to use, how to add linings and inspirational ideas for eye-catching handles and fasteners to add those all important finishing touches to your work.
Make a beautiful memory jewellery project in less than 60 minutes!
Short on time? Need a gift in a hurry? Want to learn a new craft? You need less than an hour to master a few simple techniques and to create any of the great projects inside. Let you talent shine on a Fourth Anniversary Bracelet, Queen Mother Anniversary Necklace, Baseballs Days Lapel Pin, Graduation Day Locket, Beach Key Ring, and more. Only you will know each impressive design takes just minutes to make!
Dozens of inventive ways to use rubber stamps, inks, papers, and festive embellishments to great effect from Magenta, the world-renowned paper craft company. Techniques include: ghost stamping, colouring and embossing, making paper beads, die-cut windows, pieced paper, Bargello, swivel panel card, layered Peel Off
Here is a complete practical guide to the popular art of glass painting, describing the products that are available and how to use them to get results you can be proud of every time. All the techniques are described, at first on inexpensive materials to help build confidence in the craft, and then on a range of glass objects, including wine glasses and decanters, bowls, vases and mirrors. Emma Sedman, a graduate in art and design, with a specialist interest in jewellery and glass, and a fascination for colour, demonstrates each project herself, with clear text and step-by-step photographs. Includes: