Turn Your Crafting Into a Career! All over the world, creatives are turning their hobby into their livelihoods--and Crafter's Market offers the competitive edge you need to make your craft your career. This comprehensive guide will introduce you to a new world of possibilities for taking your craft to the next level. To help you on your journey, this edition is updated with fresh resources, such as: • Over 250 new listings for complete, up-to-date contacts and submission guidelines for more than 1,500 craft market resources, including craft shows, publishers, marketplaces, and more! • Informative, inspirational articles on building your brand, customer communication, teaching classes, getting press coverage, photographing your goods, and more, from successful craft business owners. • Actions you can take today to grow your business now, no matter your creative medium--quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, papercraft, or jewelry making! Whether you're looking to expand your online presence or you're just beginning to think about how to turn your weekend hobby into a side business, Crafter's Market is the complete resource for creative professionals.

Making your own cards adds personality, care, and your own artistic flair. Learn a wide range of techniques with these step-by-step instructions.

Presents a collection of quotations, expressions, and poems that are suitable for a variety of greeting cards and scrapbooking projects.

Now you can delight and amaze family and friends on holidays and special occasions with your own hand-made cards (and you don't have to tell anyone that each card took only 10, 20, or 30 minutes to make!). You'll learn quick techniques for using coordinating patterned papers, tag inserts, stickers, word accents, and more, to create the kinds of cards that will be treasured forever. Topics include popular family milestones such as anniversaries, graduations, weddings, and births, along with thank-you's, get-well wishes, congratulations, and other sentiments.

Joy of Card Making, -Over 360 cards, bags, and tags are inspired by 92 design "recipes". Includes handy sketch index.

Learning paper-crafting techniques to make one-of-a-kind cards has never been simpler or more fun. Each letter of the alphabet represents a different technique, from Appliqués to Zigzags, that you can master while creating an orginal project. You'll be able to fashion the perfect card for every occasion and special person in your life.--From publisher description.

Turn your crafting into a career! 2015 Crafter's Market is the perfect start to your crafting career. Thousands of artists and writers have relied on us to develop their careers and navigate the changing landscape of their fields using our sister publications, Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market and Writer's Market. For the first time, that same resource is available for crafters! The 2015 Crafter's Market introduces a whole world of possibilities for marketing your craft! Expand your business with these resources: • Complete, up-to-date information for more than 1,000 craft market resources, including craft shows, magazines, book publishers, online marketplaces and more! • Markets for a variety of crafts, including quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, papercrafting and jewelry making. • Articles on the basics of freelancing--from basic copyright information to tips on promoting your work. • Informative articles on social media marketing, wholesale and consignment sales and pricing your crafts. • Inspiring and informative interviews with successful craft professionals such as Tula Pink and Margot Potter.

Susan James book ""Card Making - A Wonderful Hobby"" reveals tips and tricks and a whole lot more on handcrafted materials. If you follow her simple steps - and a little perseverance on your part - you will be pleasantly rewarded and delighted creating beautiful greeting cards that will amaze your loved ones, and friends alike. You will also have a lot of fun, too!

Introducing current, popular coloring methods for card making, this guide is divided into three instructional chapters that showcase a specific medium—watercolor, colored pencils, and alcohol ink. With an introduction to each medium, every one of the eye-catching designs in this book include a detailed walk through, a materials list, and coloring tips. A special section on how to accentuate designs includes suggested use for glitter pens and gel pens as well as techniques on shading and creating texture. Projects include Fairy Thanks, Meowy Christmas, Geranium Get Well, Secret Fishing Spot, Beary Happy Birthday, Sharing a Cookie, and Special Friends.

Create Extraordinary Images on Fabric from Your Computer Printer. Use easy-to-learn photo effects to jazz up your quilts and crafts. Step-by-step recipes for creating interesting effects to print on fabric using your digital camera, scanner, printer, and/or computer. Make the most of your photos. Resize, repeat, or reflect. Add, remove, or change colors. Make kaleidoscopes, tiled images, and mosaics. Add texture and stitching. Make unique fabric with painterly effects by using 3-D objects. Use with any brand of inkjet printer or scanner.