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The Complete Guide to Card Making: 100 Techniques with 25 Original Projects and 100 Motifs
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #347798 in Books
- Published on: 2003-05-28
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
A first-timer's contribution to the craft of greeting cards that is surprisingly elegant in its explanations and its design. Beaman starts quite literally from scratch, pictorially revealing the tools and materials to be used. The front of her book delves into 100 techniques, beginning with the how-tos of making card blanks and the art of fashioning envelopes to the more complicated embossing and metallic effects. Sidebars called "ideas and inspirations" are sprinkled throughout; each features a few design variations with occasional illustrations, like coordinating a card with the wrapping paper or drilling found items as card decorations. The second part is filled with 25 projects, elaborate and closely resembling the real store-bought item. Like a clever dinner-party invitation. Or a wonderfully white-on-white embossed birthday greeting with symbolic designs. A threat to Hallmark? Barbara Jacobs
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About the Author
Sarah Beaman trained as a fashion designer and combined her love of literature, nature and traditional skills and techniques with her artistic background to set up her own successful business making greetings cards. She also lectures on a Fashion Design course. This is her first book.
Customer Reviews
Great book!
This book offers many great ideas and techniques! A must-have book if you are very much into creating handmade cards.
Your definitive guide to card making
This is a great book on card making. It is mainly a reference book teaching you techniques which you can then apply to make your own unique cards. It is not so much a projects book, although it contains 25 project ideas but a guide to the various techniques used by the card maker. Great value for money!
Pleasant Surprise!
What a wonderful book! It is chock full of techniques and ideas for unusual greeting cards. It covers everything from dry embossing to bleaching to monoprinting. A valuable resource in my opinion!
