Create an altered book that's one of a kind!

• EVERYTHING you need for personalizing a blank board book and creating your own unique masterpiece! Jan's step-by-step instructions show you how!

• Explore different altered-book styles and techniques for self-expression

• Use pressed flowers--dry plants in your microwave!

• Paint fresco and other textured backgrounds• Include photos, found items, and embellishments to make your book unique

• Discover a foolproof method for cutting windows

• Learn all about adhesives and how to choose the right one each time

• Lots of inspiration and ideas to get you started - and keep you going!

• Make one for yourself or create one as a gift!

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Everyone loves to get cards—especially when they're works of art!

• More than 40 knock-your-socks-off card ideas and techniques

• Snip, stamp, embellish, and paint your way to stand-out cards

• Create keepsake greetings for any occasion with fabric and paper

• Transform old game boards into spectacular gift cards that will amaze your loved ones

• From playful to sophisticated, something new for every crafter!

* Finalist in the "Hobby/Crafts/How-To" category of the USA Book News "Best Book Awards" contest for 2005.

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Create Your Own Crafts & Embellish Ready-Made Items

 * No-Sew Fun for All Ages presents a wonderful opportunity to expand your creativity. The materials and techniques used are readily available from retail stores, the recycling bin, and craft supplies you already own. You will quickly become immersed in the relative ease of the process and projects included in the book. Together, we'll follow a natural progression, from selecting materials for creating the beads to making them into miniature works of art. Once you have mastered the basics of construction, you can explore several techniques to expand your newfound talents. Whether you are five, fifty, or one hundred and five, you can enjoy this easy form of paper and fiber art. Every process presented in the book has been thoroughly researched, practiced, and refined. The mess, the expense of trial and error, and the guesswork have already been completed for you. The results of my experiences are shared with you throughout this book. You will quickly discover that there is no exact science to making paper and fabric beads, which is part of their beauty. Although I offer tips and tricks to help you master your bead techniques, you will most likely develop your own set of tricks. I hope you enjoy the process and the discoveries along the way.

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Make 3-D crafts and scrapbooks with versatile fabric paper

• Fabric paper sheets are the hot new thing in crafting!

• 69 projects combine the color and richness of fabric with the flexibility of paper

• Make coordinated invitations and decorations for birthdays, weddings, and events

• Fun for all ages

• Perfect for scrapbooking, photo transfer, 3-D projects, altered books, and other crafts

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When I teach a class, I bring a few of my cards with their corresponding templates. Students use my templates to make their first card. Once they get that under their belt, they surprise themselves by abandoning the template technique. Working with one of my cards as a model, they draw and cut their next cards freehand. Soon after that, they decide to enhance or change my designs in some way. By the end of the day, many are designing their own cards!

I love this process and have designed the book, Card Art, with this in mind. There are twelve cards with full-size templates. The remaining cards can be drawn and cut freehand using my cards as models, or can be copied for templates.As a quilter, I have a large stash of fabric sitting idly around my workroom, and some years back I hit upon the idea of pasting fabric to paper, a hybrid I call "papric." This concoction can be cut up and used exactly like paper. Furthermore, by turning fabric into paper, I have on hand colors and designs I would never find in paper alone. Most of the cards in this book use papric because its texture and look appeal to me. If you're not a "fabric" person and don't want to become one, almost all the card designs in the book can be made using paper instead of papric.

-- Susan S. Terry from Card Art

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If You Collected It, You Can Scrap It!

• Empty those shoeboxes and "junk" drawers, collect your photos, explore the attic-and create keepsake albums to display and share!

• 28 projects celebrate all the best days and special memories of your life

• Scrapbook page ideas and full instructions from dozens of top artists

• Complete materials lists including where-to-buy info

Don't keep your memories locked away any longer! Jan helps you sort, sift and select treasures to create amazing pages you can enjoy, display, and share. Step-by-step instructions and materials lists are included so you can re-create your favorite pages, or adapt the ideas for one-of-a-kind pages of your own.

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Create your own jump-off-the-page scrapbooks!

• Celebrate your memories with scrapbooks using the hottest new materials

• Add dazzle and interest to pages with beads, glass, resin, and metallic accents• 65 projects for scrapbook pages, with step-by-step techniques

• User-friendly with proven shortcuts to sharpen your scrapbooking skills

• Inspiring for both beginners and avid scrapbookersSpectacular Cards:Everyone loves to get cards—especially when they're works of art

• More than 40 knock-your-socks-off card ideas and techniques

• Snip, stamp, embellish, and paint your way to stand-out cards

• Create keepsake greetings for any occasion with fabric and paper

• Transform old game boards into spectacular gift cards that will amaze your loved ones

• From playful to sophisticated, something new for every crafter!

* Finalist in the "Hobby/Crafts/How-To" category of the USA Book News "Best Book Awards" contest for 2005

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