A jar can be two gifts in one, when it's beautifully decorated on the outside and packed with sweets, tea, coffee, herbs, bath salts or other thoughtful offerings.

Marie Browning's best-selling Jazzy Jars delighted crafters with its clever, yet wonderfully easy, suggestions for turning the humble jar into a breathtaking gift package. The creative fun continues in this follow-up collection, which has dozens of all-new, even better projects, patterns, techniques, and ideas. There are spectacular options galore: decorative painting with permanent enamel glass paints, decoupage, altered art, polymer clay, gluing and embellishing with trims or found objects, quick and easy lid decorations, special tags and labels, and much more. Fill up that empty jar, and make it complete, with an entire section of recipes for layered mixes and other foods. Tie a bow around the finished jar, and voila! The perfect present to make anyone happy. A Selection of the Crafters Choice and Homestyle Book Clubs.

Offers ideas for assembling gift baskets, and provides instructions for making a variety of baskets based on various themes, such as new baby, graduation, teacher appreciation, holidays, and others.

Marie Browning, author of Jazzy Jars, Really Jazzy Jars, and Jazzy Gift Baskets, is here with more dazzling techniques and projects to please the discerning crafter. And her ideas are snazzier than ever before! These great gift jars are painted and d�coupaged, ornamented with polymer clay, embellished with mosaics, covered with beads and charms, topped with decorative lids, or coated with resin. Memory jars feature a photo collage; others, fun for kids, have felt or foam creatures. Because an empty jar simply begs for a filling, there are also recipes for homemade mixes and other treats that store beautifully inside--including cocoa, soups, granola, and candy. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Crafts involving paper manipulation, like collages, quilling, paper tole, and chigiri-e, to create many projects.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to every aspect of the craft, with a wide range of techniques, stunning projects to make, and beauty shots of every item.

Presents full-color illustrated instructions for creating forty-five metal projects with lessons on hammering, embossing, decoupage, and other techniques.

The latest entry in the popular In an Afternoon� series focuses on quick and easy techniques for paper mosaics-a simpler method than the tile and glass versions, but equally attractive. Written by highly regarded author Marie Browning, it's sure to become the next Afternoon success. Here is everything you need to get started: information on supplies and tools, including the different kinds of available paper, trimmers, backings, and coatings; how-to instructions on the basic techniques (cutting to size, assembling the pieces); numerous photographs; and projects-such as a Poker Box and Marbled Oval Tray-designed to build skills even as they inspire. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Classic techniques—contemporary projects! This second entry in the new Paper Crafts Workshop series proves that traditional methods of crafting can produce some of the most exquisite greeting cards ever. Every idea is eye-opening and lovely: paper lacework, a form of paper weaving knownas papuela, silhouette cutting, iris folding, paper embroidery, paper piercing (Ornare), kaleidoscope folding, and more. With plenty of photos and description to lead the newcomer through every step, and patterns when needed, crafters won’t be able to resist making every card. Best of all, the supplies and papers needed to create these unique designs are all easily found at neighborhood scrapbooking stores.

Every photograph captures a precious memory - and 'Creative Photo Collage' is a complete guide to collecting, archiving and presenting those treasured personal images. Marie Browning offers dozens of unique projects for turning photographs into home decor and gifts.