Card Making Basics

by Watanabe, Judi

Book - 2016

Handmade cards are gifts, creative expressions, keepsakes, and relationship builders. Beneath the cardstock and embellishments is deep emotion from the ca...Show more Handmade cards are gifts, creative expressions, keepsakes, and relationship builders. Beneath the cardstock and embellishments is deep emotion from the card maker— encouragement, celebration, commemoration, and love. Unlike many store-bought cards that are thrown away, handmade cards are cherished and displayed. They spark connections, express feelings, evoke laughter, and warm the hearts of friends, relatives, and coworkers. There's joy in the process of creating, as well as in giving and receiving handmade cards. The Complete Photo Guide to Cardmaking is the ultimate resource on card making. All paper-crafting techniques that can be employed for card making are thoroughly covered, including a comprehensive description of paper types available, folding options and techniques, coloring and image transfer methods, and adding embellishments. Inside, you'll also find methods for using a computer to design and print cards. More than 80 projects give you lots of ideas and inspiration to create cards of your own, using the techniques you've learned. Unique envelope templates and a helpful source list are included. Expert paper crafter Judi Watanabe provides you with a one-stop reference for making cards for any occasion. This book includes step-by-step photographed instructions for a wide range of techniques, as well as projects to accompany each area of card making. Full of gorgeous cards, The Complete Photo Guide to Cardmaking explores a wide range of techniques and end products, making it a valuable reference for any crafter. So when the mood strikes, use the artistry you've learned to create personalized greetings for everyone you know! Show less

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Making your Own Greeting Cards & Gift Wrap

More Than 50 Step-by-step Papercrafting Projects for Every Occasion

by Bolton, Vivienne

Book - 2019

Give Your Sentiments the Personal Touch This big papercrafting book is bursting with creative inspiration for handmade cards that are as delightful to giv...Show more Give Your Sentiments the Personal Touch This big papercrafting book is bursting with creative inspiration for handmade cards that are as delightful to give as to receive. Making Your Own Greeting Cards & Gift Wrap shows how to make a host of impressive cards, boxes, bags, tags, wrapping paper and envelopes. Each project includes step-by-step illustrations and beautiful color photographs of the finished pieces. · Advice on choosing materials and decorative items to make the most of your cards. · Handy templates to assist in both the card and gift wrap-making process. · Practical instructions guide you through all the techniques used throughout the book. · Inspirational galleries illustrate how one design motif or tool can be used to create a variety of different results. Show less

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Uncommon Cards

Stationery Made With Recycled Objects, Found Treasures, and A Little Imagination

by Williamson, Jeanne

Book - 2013

The right greeting card is hard to find, but with the most basic sewing machine and a few recycled materials, you'll have cards for every occasion in a sn...Show more The right greeting card is hard to find, but with the most basic sewing machine and a few recycled materials, you'll have cards for every occasion in a snap. With 52 sewn designs made from easy-to-follow, straightforward instructions, you can show just how much you care with a beautiful, one-of-a-kind handmade creation. Show less

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100 Fresh and Fun Handmade Cards

Step-by-step Instructions for 50 New Designs and 50 Amazing Alternatives

by McGray, Kimber

Book - 2012

Provides instructions for making fifty cards for birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions featuring collage and other techniques, and explains how to make more elaborate version with pop-ups, spinners, and other devices. Provides instructions for making fifty cards for birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions featuring collage and other techniques, and explains how to make more elaborate version with pop-ups, spinners, and other devices. Show less

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Easy Greeting Cards

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Book - 2012

Offers tips, patterns, and examples for making innovative greeting cards that commemorate important occasions and holidays throughout the year such as birthdays, graduations, a baby's birth, Halloween, and Christmas. Offers tips, patterns, and examples for making innovative greeting cards that commemorate important occasions and holidays throughout the year such as birthdays, graduations, a baby's birth, Halloween, and Christmas. Show less

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The Cardmaker's Bible

160 Inspirational Card Designs and Definitive Cardmaking Techniques

Book - 2011

This book features 160 card designs by top papercraft professionals, offering a wide range of styles and techniques. All of the cards are carefully organi...Show more This book features 160 card designs by top papercraft professionals, offering a wide range of styles and techniques. All of the cards are carefully organized by occasion, making it easy to find the perfect card for your loved one. The comprehensive Cardmaker's Techniques chapter provides an essential resource of numerous papercrafting techniques. Step-by-step photography and clear instructions make this an ideal book for beginners, as well as more experienced cardmakers. Show less

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175 Fresh Card Ideas

Designs to Make and Give Throughout the Year

by McGray, Kimber

Book - 2010

Offers step-by-step instructions for creating fifty greeting cards and provides basic sketches and lists of materials for over one hundred additional cards, in a text that also covers the essential techniques for card-making. Offers step-by-step instructions for creating fifty greeting cards and provides basic sketches and lists of materials for over one hundred additional cards, in a text that also covers the essential techniques for card-making. Show less

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Encyclopedia of Greeting Card Tools and Techniques

by Rothamel, Susan Pickering

Book - 2008

Susan Pickering Rothamel, author of the best-selling Encyclopedia of Scrapbook Tools and Techniques (Sterling/Chapelle, 2005), now turns her A-to-Z eye to...Show more Susan Pickering Rothamel, author of the best-selling Encyclopedia of Scrapbook Tools and Techniques (Sterling/Chapelle, 2005), now turns her A-to-Z eye to another popular papercraft: greeting cards. With its detailed definitions of terms, tools, materials, and techniques; illustrated how-to instructions; and hundreds of handmade cards from leading artists, this will become the must-have visual reference for anyone interested in the craft. Photographs of delightful greeting cards appear on every spread, along with step-by-step pictures of key skills. Sidebars on leading card makers discuss the techniques for which they’re celebrated, from Dee Gruenig’s rubber-stamp designs to Alli Bartkowski’s quilling. Show less

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The Illustrated Project Book of Making Gift Cards and Scrapbooking

360 Easy-to-follow Projects and Techniques and 2300 Colour Photographs

by Owen, Cheryl

Book - 2008

A compendium of colorful and creative ideas, practical techniques and easy-to-follow projects for every occasion including birthdays, holidays, special ev...Show more A compendium of colorful and creative ideas, practical techniques and easy-to-follow projects for every occasion including birthdays, holidays, special events, weddings, anniversaries, friendships and happy times, with more than 200 stunning projects and mini projects, 150 versatile techniques and 2200 color photographs. Show less

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Greeting Cards From A to Z

by Robertson, Jeanette

Book - 2006

From dimensional appliqué to lively, eye-catching zig-zag designs, these greeting card techniques will delight the creative crafter in search of inspirati...Show more From dimensional appliqué to lively, eye-catching zig-zag designs, these greeting card techniques will delight the creative crafter in search of inspiration. It’s not a collection of projects, but an encyclopedia chock-full of fabulous ideas that card makers can use in whatever way they want, for whatever type of card they need. There’s so much to select from: fast, easy, and elegant die-cut cards; foam cutouts posted on colorful patterned papers; lacy greetings that incorporate doilies; and even sparkling, bejeweled ones. In addition to all the basics on tools, there’s information on choosing cardstock; selecting pretty embellishments; and making personalized envelopes. Show less

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