Cheryl Owen

Beautiful to receive as well as fun to make, here is a sparkling selection of fabulous card-making projects designed for maximum decorative and creative effect. There are cards for holidays and festivals, birthday celebrations, special anniversaries and red letter days, plus cards to express love, friendship, apology, sympathy and much more. There are also inspirational ideas for gift-wraps, pretty origami boxes and handmade envelopes. The introduction outlines materials and equipment you will need and demonstrates over 50 papercraft techniques – from cutting, scoring and stencilling to stamping, bleaching and pin-pricking – to help you achieve your desired design. Bursting with ideas and illustrated with 1100 step- by-step photographs this book is a treasury of inspiration for every creative crafts enthusiast

Discover just how easy it is to make your own gorgeous beaded jewellery with readily available semi-precious beads and stones! Beautiful Beaded Jewelry for Beginners shows you how to create fantastic day and evening pieces—necklaces, chokers, bracelets, cuffs, brooches, earrings and rings—that will brighten up any outfit. Crafting expert Cheryl Owen offers 25 stunning designs that can be created in just a matter of hours, and explains every simple technique you need to get started. Each project is presented in full step-by-step detail, showing you exactly what to do.

Discover the amazing versatility of beadwork in this scintillating selection of more than 30 projects that you can make in just one weekend. From jewellery and clothing to home accessories and embroidered textiles, there’s something here for every taste and level of ability. Projects include lampshades, decorative candles, fringed throws, embroidered table runners, tassel covers, embellished scarves, hair accessories and more. The projects and techniques are designed and written by a team of experienced bead crafters, each one an expert in her field. Big Book of Weekend Beading teaches an exciting variety of methods, from general beadwork to stringing, bead embroidery and wirework. Simple projects at the start of each section give beginners an instant taste of success, leading them on to try larger-scale projects and more impressive techniques.

Making your own custom accessories is a great way to add colour, texture and comfort to your life—and can be fun too! Sew-It-Yourself Home Accessories offers 21 simple and beautiful projects to create with natural cotton. Using easy-to-learn sewing methods and bright, fresh fabrics, this book shows you how to make a range of useful items, from cushions, aprons and oven mitts to a laptop case, table linen and even a doorstop. Each project can be completed in just one weekend. Clear step-by-step instructions and colour photographs make the process straightforward and simple, even for absolute beginners. A basics section at the front of the book introduces you to all of the tools, materials and techniques you need to know.

The collection includes sewing projects suitable for experienced crafters and newcomers alike. The bags range from bright and cheery beach bags and functional yet styling shoppers to classic evening clutches and stylish wrist bags. Every project is explained using easy-to-follow instructions so that even a notice could create a stunning, bespoke bag in no time at all. Hand-made bags are not only a fabulous way to accessorise and express your own style, they also make personal and unique gifts for friends and loved ones. With such a variety of techniques and styles, there really is something here for everyone.

This title offers 75 imaginative designs to make, that is shown in 500 stunning photographs. It includes practical projects for beautiful and original greetings cards, gift wrap, boxes, gift tags, wallets, invitations and matching envelopes. There are 75 unique designs for every occasion including new baby, congratulations, thank you, get well, and more. More than 500 step-by-step photographs show in detail how each project should look at every stage - with concise instructions and templates for every design. You can try out a range of simple craft techniques - beadwork, embroidery, silk painting, printing, painting, papercraft, stamping, pressing flowers and embossing foil. It includes ideas and suggestions for cards to suit every taste, from a cute dog's face for a child's birthday to a pretty lace pram to celebrate the arrival of a new baby. Here is the ultimate book of greetings cards to make, perfect for the complete beginner as well as more advanced crafters looking for new inspiration and techniques to add style and individuality to their own hand-crafted card designs. Each design has a timeless classic quality, with ideas for birthdays, weddings and anniversaries, as well as cards just to keep in touch. There are all kinds of papercraft skills to try including stacking and layering papers to creative effect, quilling, decoupage, papercuts and more. Whoever the recipient, a beautiful handmade card adds to the sense of occasion, and is a token to be cherished.

Beautifully styled and exquisitely detailed, this compendium of techniques will give you all the skills you need to make individual furnishings for your own home. Each technique is explained with clear step-by-step instructions and photographs, then applied to a range of pretty contemporary projects. Working through these will help you to learn and practise sewing skills, which you can then use to make all sorts of other projects, specially designed to suit your own windows, chairs, tables and beds. The early techniques are aimed at complete beginners and teach simple skills, such as pinning, cutting and making seams. Later techniques introduce slightly more complex skills, including hems, curved seams, casings, borders, linings and decorative touches such as edging, frills, ruching and tassels. This book provides everything the home sewer needs to make beautiful, stylish and individual projects to enhance every room of the house.

This title features more than 55 unique personalized greetings cards to make for every occasion, shown in 660 photographs. It is a lavish collection of delightful ideas and card designs to make yourself and send to friends and family. Projects feature a range of craft techniques including stamping, papercraft, transfers, gilding, paint techniques, air-drying clay models and basic embroidery. Card ideas and designs include a sampler card for Thanksgiving, a beaded snowflake Christmas card, a baby's footprint card for a new arrival, a golden wedding anniversary card and four leaf clover good luck card. It includes simple projects that can be made quickly and easily, as well as more challenging decorative ideas. It features over 660 practical photographs that make all the techniques and projects easy to follow and execute. As well as being traditionally associated with special occasions, festivals and celebrations, greetings cards are also highly valued as tokens to help us to stay in touch with family and friends, and let the recipient know that we're thinking about them. Making greetings cards is not only enjoyable and inexpensive, it is also an immensely satisfying pastime, with results that will be treasured by those you send them to. This book shows how to get started, describing every technique needed to make professional looking cards, and providing dozens of inspirational designs. There are ideas for every occasion from Christmas and birthdays, to Chinese New Year, weddings and anniversaries. Every design is illustrated with step-by-step instructions and a photograph of the finished card, for perfect results every time.

Valokuvalla koristettu kortti muistuttaa vastaanottajaa hauskalla tavalla mieluisasta tapahtumasta, henkilöstä tai paikasta. Tavalliset onnittelukortit päätyvät helposti piironginlaatikkoon, mutta valokuvakortit talletetaan aarteina ja laitetaan esille. Monet digikameranomistajat säilyttävät tietokoneillaan tai CD- tai DVD-levyillä runsasta kuvavalikoimaa. Siitä on näppärä valita mieleisensä kuva, muokata se korttiin sopivaksi ja tulostaa ulos. Tämän kirjan mallitöissä on runsaasti ideoita kuinka talletat onnittelu- ja joulukortteihin esimerkiksi lomamuistoja, kuvia lemmikeistä tai lapsista, hääparista tai rakkaista maisemista ja rakennuksista. Koristelu leimoilla, kimalteilla, helmillä, paljeteilla, nauhoilla ja napeilla antaa korteille upean loppusilauksen. Opit myös tekemään kolmiulotteisia kortteja ja saat lemmikin liikkumaan kuvassa. Kaikki kirjan korttiohjeet sopivat yhtä hyvin toteutettaviksi myös paperikuvien kanssa. Suomentanut Jussi Niemistö