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The Complete Practical Book of Making Gift Cards and Scrapbooking
The Complete Practical Book of Making Gift Cards and Scrapbooking Author:Cheryl Owen, Alison Lindsay An introduction to each craft details all the materials and equipment that are needed to get started. Easy techniques for making and decorating card and scrapbook page backgrounds follow, and there are tips on choosing design themes, putting colours and patterns together, and choosing embellishments to personalize each design. Hundreds of versat... more »ile craft techniques are featured such as papercraft, stamping, stencilling, paint techniques, modelling with air-drying clay, simple sewing and embroidery. There is a section that looks at getting the most from a digital camera and learning how to crop photographs for best effect.
Make a greetings card to celebrate New Year, a cute and colourful fluffy rabbit for a first birthday, a traditional and festive Christmas card, or an opulent gilded card for a wedding anniversary. Create memorable scrapbooking pages to remember a child's birthday party, use treasured sepia-tinted photographs for a heritage display of a family wedding, and use embellishments and mementoes for a lasting impression of a special holiday abroad. Every technique and project is clearly explained in more than 2100 step-by-step photographs. With hundreds of fantastic ideas to suit all tastes and every occasion, this is the ultimate source book for all crafters.« less