The Complete Guide to Card Making: 100 Techniques with 25 Original Projects and 100 Motifs [Hardcover]

Sarah Beaman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 28, 2003

Thirty-five unique greeting card projects, plus scores of motifs to mix and match for original designs, make this a must-have for crafters. This comprehensive guide covers everything from creating blank cards and envelopes to advanced embossing procedures. Celebrate births, birthdays, engagements, weddings, holidays, friendship, and romance with beautiful keepsake cards.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

A first-timer's contribution to the craft of greeting cards that is surprisingly elegant in its explanations and its design. Beaman starts quite literally from scratch, pictorially revealing the tools and materials to be used. The front of her book delves into 100 techniques, beginning with the how-tos of making card blanks and the art of fashioning envelopes to the more complicated embossing and metallic effects. Sidebars called "ideas and inspirations" are sprinkled throughout; each features a few design variations with occasional illustrations, like coordinating a card with the wrapping paper or drilling found items as card decorations. The second part is filled with 25 projects, elaborate and closely resembling the real store-bought item. Like a clever dinner-party invitation. Or a wonderfully white-on-white embossed birthday greeting with symbolic designs. A threat to Hallmark? Barbara Jacobs
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About the Author

Sarah Beaman trained as a fashion designer and combined her love of literature, nature and traditional skills and techniques with her artistic background to set up her own successful business making greetings cards. She also lectures on a Fashion Design course. This is her first book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Collins & Brown (May 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1855859793
• ISBN-13: 978-1855859791
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,177,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your definitive guide to card making, August 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Guide to Card Making: 100 Techniques with 25 Original Projects and 100 Motifs (Hardcover)

This is a great book on card making. It is mainly a reference book teaching you techniques which you can then apply to make your own unique cards. It is not so much a projects book, although it contains 25 project ideas but a guide to the various techniques used by the card maker. Great value for money!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant Surprise!, August 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Guide to Card Making: 100 Techniques with 25 Original Projects and 100 Motifs (Hardcover)

What a wonderful book! It is chock full of techniques and ideas for unusual greeting cards. It covers everything from dry embossing to bleaching to monoprinting. A valuable resource in my opinion!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brings everything together in one book, December 19, 2005

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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Card Making: 100 Techniques with 25 Original Projects and 100 Motifs (Hardcover)

This is great for first timers or experienced papercrafters. All the info on techniques under one cover plus some step by step projects. Worth a look.