This title offers 360 easy-to-follow projects and techniques with 2300 lavish photographs. This is the complete step-by-step guide to making your own greetings cards, gift wrap, gift tags, invitations, memory albums and scrapbook pages to treasure. You can make greetings cards for Mother's Day, Divali, Chinese New Year, weddings, anniversaries, Easter, Christmas, special birthdays, and just to keep in touch; create personalized scrapbook pages for themes on the changing seasons, children, family and friends, heritage, pets and sports. It presents a range of styles that will appeal to different tastes, from traditional and nostalgic to retro and cutting-edge, and with ideas suitable for adults and children of all ages. Every project and technique is shown in 2300 beautiful step-by-step photographs to ensure success. The complementary crafts of creative greetings cards and decorative scrapbooking offer the opportunity to create personalized designs that celebrate life's special events. This superb practical book contains 360 ideas, craft techniques and designs shown in 2300 evocative photographs. You can make a greetings card to celebrate New Year, a cute rabbit for a first birthday, and a gilded card for a wedding anniversary. You can create scrapbooking pages to remember a party, use sepia-tinted photographs for a display of a family wedding, and use mementoes for a lasting impression of a special holiday. With ideas to suit all tastes, this is the ultimate source book for crafters.

For more than 20 years, Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition has been an illuminating reference for the use of creative approaches in helping clients achieve their therapeutic goals. Carol Crellin Tubbs has included a range of craft and creative activity categories, from paper crafts, to cooking, to the use of recycled materials, and everything in between. Each chapter includes a brief history of the craft, several projects along with suggestions for grading or adapting, examples of related documentation, and a short case study. The text also features chapters on activity analysis, general strategies for implementation of creative activities, and documentation, as well as a chapter describing the relevance of this media from both historical and current occupation-based perspectives. In this updated Fifth Edition, the craft projects have been updated and numerous resources and links for more ideas have been added. There are new chapters on making therapy tools and crafting with a purpose, and the recycled and found materials chapter has been expanded in keeping with cultural trends. A flow chart has been added to each case study to help students better understand the process and rationale for tailoring activities for individual client needs, and project suggestions for working on specific performance skills or client factors are scattered throughout the chapters. Other additions include a behavioral observation checklist as an aid in evaluation and documentation, and several illustrations to help students distinguish between the use of occupation as means and occupation as end. This Fifth Edition also includes an updated instructors’ manual with additional resources and suggestions for lesson planning. Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition not only provides a wide assortment of craft ideas and instructions, but also provides multiple suggestions for therapeutic uses for activities in each category. It includes ways to grade activities to best achieve therapy objectives, and examples of documentation for reimbursement. For each craft category, there is discussion on precautions for use with certain populations, contextual limitations, and safety considerations. Information is presented in several different formats such as examples, tables, illustrations, and other formats to promote student understanding. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. . Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition is the foremost resource for using creative approaches in helping clients achieve their therapeutic goals and should be used by all occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and recreational therapists.

Teaches adults and older children the skills needed to write calligraphically in a range of modern and traditional styles, suitable for every greeting card and scrapbooking purposes. This title also explains embossing, printing with carved erasers, linocut lettering and other techniques for creative lettering.

For a book about small things, this one is certainly big on ideas presenting everything needed to create pages for miniature scrapbooks and charming mini albums. Included are special design tips and techniques for working with smaller pages, easy-to-adapt layouts, and cute ideas for little gift books. 100 photos

This lavish book is a collection of hundreds of practical craft techniques, inspirational ideas and fabulous designs. An introduction to each craft details all the materials and equipment that are needed to get started. Easy methods for making and decorating card and scrapbook page backgrounds follow, and there are tips on choosing design themes, putting tints and patterns together, and using embellishments to personalize each design. Many versatile craft techniques are featured such as papercraft, stamping, stencils, paint techniques, working with airdrying clay, simple sewing and embroidery.This is the ultimate sourcebook for all crafters.

Avid crafters have known that scrapbooks have spawned an enormous number of unique and beautiful supplies, tools, and techniques that can be used to create hundreds of fabulous gifts, home decorations, jewelry and more. Using scrapbook supplies, you can publish your own book; design your own cards, calendars and stationary; decorate frames, lampshades or coasters for your home; design your own jewelry using metal snaps, charms, and beads, and create the look of decoupage on candles, magnets, and trays with fantastic results. Set aside your stencils and use die-cuts to decorate rooms, doors, and mirrors; make your own jewelry, napkin holders, and tiebacks using ribbons and twill, and create holiday decorations and ornaments in minutes. And that is just the beginning. In all, there are 25 how-to projects with step-by-step instruction, followed by variations of other materials that can be substituted. It is the perfect book for scrapbookers, paper artists, memory artists and crafters.

Innovative approach to bookbinding explains techniques that elevate handmade books into extraordinary artworks. Simple, well-illustrated directions explain how to make pop-up panels, pages that "explode" from the spine, slipcases, and 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.

Find calm every day through journaling and scrapbooking! Practice mindfulness and live in the moment. This children’s journaling book is a fantastic way to teach kids about taking each moment for what it is and managing anxiety, stress and fear. It’s a beautiful how-to guide that will help your kids live more intentionally. Perfect for children ages 8 and older, this helpful activity book is packed with things to do, journaling prompts and ideas, and relaxation tips and advice. Inside, you’ll find: • Calming activity ideas for inside and outside, at home, and on the go. • First lessons in big ideas and philosophy for children alongside practical applications. • A ‘How-to’ guide to journaling and scrapbooking so children can document their experiences. • A theme throughout that teaches children to cherish the moment and make and retain memories as a result. • Creative, practical activities to get children away from screens and encourage a positive frame of mind. Did you know that mindfulness reduces activity in the brain’s fight or flight zone, allowing for improved focus, memory, and social and emotional skills? That’s why journaling and taking moments away from screens is excellent for children! Making Memories Journal offers a creative solution to managing emotions and living for the now. It’s a fun memories book for kids to engage with the world around them through lessons in big ideas and journaling tips. Kids are taken through activities, from cleaning their space to learning how to make origami and writing down thoughts and feelings. They learn crafts to calm a busy mind, discover Buddhist meditation and explore the outdoors mindfully. It also features a strong environmental awareness, with activities encouraging sustainability and recycling!

Cover title: 15 easy Duck Tape projects: includes step-by-step illustrated instructions.