Customer Reviews

The Art of Decorative Paper Pricking

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I've just received my copy of Janet Wilsons paper pricking book and am absolutely enthralled. I copied a design onto parchment, copied the dots with a white pen and pricked the holes. To my delight the picture was perfect just as she said it would be. I am delighted and would recomend this book to anyone doing any paper craft. It shows you all you need to know and the pictures are very clear, especially to a novice. This book has opened avenues I never thought I would explore!

I goofed when I ordered this book at the same time that I ordered the Traditional Papercrafts book by the same author. Almost this entire booke, but 8 pages, (4 patterns) is in the second book. If you like paper crafts just get the traditional papercrafts book instead of this one, you get much more for your money. Is also a pain enlarging the patterns. None would have been so large that she couldn't have put the full size pattern in the books. Making something 125% bigger is the pits.

I recently purchased The Art of Decorative Paper Pricking and whilst it has many borders, I was disappointed that there were very few patterns for pin pricked pictures. I was also disappointed that almost everything had to be enlarged via photocopier/scanner. When I compare this book to others that I have seen I was most disappointed.

THIS BOOK IS VERY THOROUGH. FROM TOOLS TO PATTERNS, YOU WILL HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO GET STARTED. THIS BOOK IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND THE EXAMPLES ARE CLEAR. YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT HOW SIMPLE, YET ELEGANT YOUR CREATIONS WILL BE.

This is a good book, however, I did not like the fact that all the patterns must be increased in size from 120% to 150%. It would be much easier to have the patterns regular size. There was enough white space in the book to accomplish that, so I am not sure why the author or publisher chose to make the reader increase the size of the patterns. Other than that, this is a good basic book.

I was very pleased with the craft book. It came in a very timely manner and would purchase from this seller again.