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.

Discover essential techniques for professional-looking cards, from stamping and embossing to quilling, iris folding and 3D découpage. Be inspired by card designs for every age and occasion from top designers. Use punches, stamps, stencils and peel-off stickers with various tools, embellishments, card and paper to decorate your cards.

Handmade cards are a delight both to give and to receive, and coordinating gift wrap adds an extra special touch. This book presents a range of beautiful and fun cards, boxes, bags, and gift wrap suitable for all occasions. Book jacket.

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!

The biggest collection of patterns ever supplied in one book. Contains more than 300 fabulous bead designs with dozens of applications for amulets, chokers, necklaces, bracelets, hairslides, curtain tiebacks, napkin rings, and picture frames. Packed with designs for loom and off-loom weaving. Includes core techniques such as finishing your design, adding clasps, earwires, and pin backs. Each and every design is charted in full color using realistic bead graphics plus a photograph to show the finished piece. Essential information includes: quantities of beads required for each design; bead palette for quick color ID; suitability for loom or off-loom work.

Offers more than 500 card projects from recent special issues of Card Creations, published by the editors of Paper CraftsR magazine.