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Sweet Paper Crafts offers 25 unique DIY paper accents that make any home or celebration a little brighter. Make tiny star garlands to string over the mantel, delicate flower wreaths for the front door, cheerful package toppers, and much more! Mollie Greene's distinctive layered style incorporates collage techniques and use of found scraps, book pages, magazines, and old record jackets. With helpful templates, step-by-step photographs, beautiful shots...
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We all love to read and learn from books, but The Repurposed Library takes our passion even further, presenting us with 33 projects to make--quite literally--out of books. For these projects, Lisa Occhipinti rescues and repurposes orphaned and outdated books from flea markets and library sales and turns them into new art objects and practical items for the home. Her creations range from artfully constructed mobiles, wreaths, and vases, to functional...
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"Breathe new life into that old cardboard box! Though paper and cardboard seem common and humble materials, discover the totally unexpected, beautiful and intricate art that can be created using the repurposed and upcycled resource.The Art of Cardboard showcases the grand and imaginatinve scale of cardboard art and design. Inside, you'll find jaw-dropping cardboard creations from around the world! You'll dicover the process of each art form, as well...
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"Enter the enchanting world of pop-ups and handmade paper crafts. Join author Helen Hiebert as she guides you through materials, tools and pop-up basics including parallel folds, angle folds, combinations and variations, and layered pop-ups. Enjoy creating 20 projects to play with ranging from cards and books to buildings, graphic design pieces, and more. Featuring a high-end gallery of artists, whose beautiful work will inspire you to make your own...
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Many people want to express themselves through visual journaling, but are stuck or intimidated with how to get started. This book breaks down the entire working process of journaling with step-by-step photos and instructions from start to finish. Annotation: Many people want to express themselves through visual journaling, but are stuck or intimidated with how to get started. This book breaks down the entire working process of journaling with step-by-step...
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In this digital age, the fate of physical books remains in question. Even the concept of curling up with a good book conjures new images. But there remains a sensory thrill to physical books-to seeing and feeling them, to turning their pages-that makes many of us value them even more as digital reading grows in popularity. In Novel Living, artist Lisa Occhipinti celebrates her love for physical books by presenting us with her unique ideas for collecting...
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Make traditional, simple, and fun paper craft models with this easy origami book!
The ancient art of origami originated in Japan, where it is steeped in traditional values.
The models presented in the series include many with strong symbolic meanings, such as the carp, the frog and the crane, which symbolize longevity, good luck, and perseverance.
There is a more playful side to origami as well: the stylized paper sumo wrestler with realistic moves...
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"The Lab Series offers artists and crafters a new and contemporary format which provides solid techniques and ideas for unique applications, all presented in an appealing package organized into 52 units which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The approach is fun and experimental, offering ideas that can be explored in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn something new or be inspired. The underlying message of the...
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A workshop-style book, oriented to the wide community of crafters and artists including those interested in paint, surface design, mixed media, and collage, which explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction, texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text, and adding digital imagery.
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Over 25 unique effects illustrated with process photos, finished examples, and variations. Mixed Emulsions is a follow up to Karen Michel's book, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery. Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery takes a slightly different tact, bringing traditional and digital photography front and center, showing the many ways that photographic imagery can be manipulated, not electronically, but using various...
13) The art of modern quilling: contemporary paper techniques & projects for captivating quilled designs
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The Art of Modern Quilling breathes new life into a time-tested craft with innovative instruction and creative projects you will love to make and wear! Colorful strips of paper and a few simple tools are all you need to create an infinite number of amazing projects with author and quilling expert extraordinaire Erin Curet! Erin shows you a host of innovative techniques and provides plentiful inspiration in The Art of Modern Quilling. New to quilling?...
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"Simple but unique, an origami box represents the thoughts and feelings of its maker. Between the pleasure of paperfolding and the satisfaction of having a handmade item to use (or give!), the box forms a positive association for the maker (and between the giver and recipient). In this guide, origami master Tomoko Fuse presents 20 original designs for origami boxes -- some simple, others more complex, all made from a single sheet of paper. Beautiful,...
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Profusely illustrated guide clearly outlines procedure for making attractive and useful papers in vast number of sizes, shapes, textures and colors -- all from vegetable fibers. Clear, easy-to-follow introduction to necessary materials, tools and equipment; step-by-step description of papermaking process, plus project suggestions
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Transform ordinary paper, from scrap paper to magazine pages, into colorful and creative papers for scrapbooks, cards, memory boxes, collages, gift wrap, invitations, and more. How to use scraping, layering, solvents, resists, wet-in-wet effects, stamping, and many other techniques to produce beautiful decorative papers.
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"Fantasy-loving folders will rejoice in this enchanting collection of 27 original models by origami master John Montroll. Ranging from simple to complex, the figures include 10 types of dragons as well as a wizard, ogre, unicorn, phoenix, and other imaginary creatures. Illustrated instructions accompany each model, along with a brief chapter in an ongoing adventure story. Internationally renowned author John Montroll has significantly increased the...
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"Origami takes flight with these 40 beautiful bird projects, from a cockatiel, horned owl, and hummingbird to the exotic albatross and extinct dodo. Just photocopy the templates onto cardstock; score, cut, and fold; and, finally, interlock the joints to create a dimensional creature. All the projects are arranged by difficulty and the richly photographed pages show the birds from multiple perspectives, perching, standing, and flying. "--