This book showcases handmade greeting cards with the images contained in seven bestselling stamps sets from Gina K. Designs. Each featured stamp set includes a frame image large enough to fill an A2-sized card as well as complementary sentiments and images to use as stand-alone focal points or to create patterns.

Over twenty-five ways to decorate purchased frames, eight methods for making original frames, and techniques for hanging frames.

Beautiful home decor items, made with great fabrics, that don't require threading a sewing machine! The chapters go room by room through your home. Tackle redoing just one room at a time, but before you begin browse through the entire book. Ideas in one chapter may suit a room covered in a different chapter.

The 45 projects here use paint, fabric, wire, beads, paper, costume jewelry, and other found objects, and range from classic and elegant to wild and witty. Try an assemblage of driftwood and seashells, a glued ceramic shard mosaic, and (for the kids) an imaginative border on a painted blackboard frame surface.

Learn more than a dozen stamping techniques, with easy-to-follow instructions. You'll be able to make your own greeting cards to mark milestone occasions, celebrate holidays, or just say hello--

Rubber-stamping is one of the most exciting artistic techniques because its applications are virtually limitless. No matter what medium they work in, artists and decorators continue to find new and exciting ways to incorporate rubber-stamping into beautiful, one-of-a-kind creations using simple techniques. Stamp Artistry showcases the innovative techniques and cutting-edge materials being used in stamping. This collection of creative projects will inspire you and teach you how to combine stamps with fabric, leather, beading, clay, metal, glass, and more to create artwork for every part of your life. Covering the gamut of rubber-stamping know-how -- from basic tools to professional tips to an extensive resource listing -- as well as complete step-by-step instructions for every project, this how-to guide is a must have for artists who want to incorporate the latest techniques and trends in their work. Book jacket.

From Drab to Fab is an upmarket craft book showing how to transform unwanted, old and everyday objects into beautiful items of décor. Keeping in mind the concepts of reuse and recycle, Almie Louis takes it much further by upcycling the most ordinary or even ugly items, into grand and desirable pieces. Using a variety of crafts such as crackle glazing, decoupage, gilding, papier-mâché and ageing, she instructs the reader step-by-step with clear and beautiful photographs that will inspire anyone keen on learning a new craft. There are 90 projects for items in every room of the home, including the garden! Choose from decorative lights, useful wire baskets, wall hangings and frames, trinket containers, gold-leaf boxes, retro tins, lampshades, a variety of tables and stools, and many more.

Do-it-yourself party ensembles are the latest trend in paper crafting, and the editors of Paper Crafts magazine have compiled 288 pages of design inspiration in this unique new book. With more than 1,000 individual pieces in 140 different party ensembles.