Creative Crafts You Can Do in a Day [Hardcover]

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Book Description

Publication Date: August 27, 2006

Get creative with personalized crafts

In just a day you can create dazzling jewelry, home décor, and gifts for any occasion with this complete guide - the creative possibilities are endless! Inside you'll discover over 75 stylish projects with complete, step-by-step instructions, aspiration and expert advice including:

• Greeting cards: Renowned rubber stamp artist Maryjo McGraw shows you how to combine elements of papercraft, collage and rubber stamping to create greeting cards that are literally works of art.
• Papercrafts: Give every celebration a more meaningful touch with personalized gifts. You'll discover projects using all of your favorite papercrafting tools and supplies to create elegant keepsake gifts.
• Beading: Learn to master essential seed bead techniques and create dazzling gifts from a friendship bracelet and gift card to tasseled cushion covers and a woven picture frame.
• Ribboncraft: Using traditional ribboncrafting techniques, you'll create fresh, vibrant designs to transform simple gifts, greeting cards and home décor into treasured keepsakes.

Creative Crafts You Can Do in a Day contains everything you need to create personalized gifts and beautiful accessories. Get started today and discover the adventure in crafting stunning projects.

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About the Author

Features instruction and projects from North Light Books authors Susan Niner Jones, Mary Jo McGraw and Dorothy Wood.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (August 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581806647
• ISBN-13: 978-1581806649
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,171,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what I expected, September 5, 2009

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J. Hefner (Southwest Colorado) - See all my reviews
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While this book is very beautiful and has lots of really interesting projects which in themselves are well photographed and the steps are well described, it is not what I had expected. It is essentially four different books put into one. The four 'books' are: Bright Ideas in Papercrafts; New Ideas in Ribboncraft; Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials; and Simple Glass Seed Beading. For as large as this book is (nearly 500 pages), I had hoped for more variety of crafting mediums, but it really is just those four mediums- paper, ribbon, greeting cards (so more paper...), and seed beads. Don't get me wrong, the projects they have are beautiful and varied, but I had hoped for more. Also, I had hoped for more crafts using items you might already have around the house, and while many crafters will likely have a good supply of the basic tools needed for these projects, it does largely require storebought new items, rather than repurposed items (though I'm sure if you got creative you could modify many of the ribbon and beading crafts to include repurposed items). Personally I am not interested much in making greeting cards, so an entire 120 pages of this book is not my cup of tea. I will also add that many of the projects in the Papercrafts and Ribboncrafts sections are also cards. It will be a nice book to add to my crafting book collection, however it is not what I had hoped it would be.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, November 2, 2008

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Judy Young "SewEasyCreations" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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I was really pleased with this book. There are a lot of ideas in it and so many of them can be swapped, like the CD holders can be used with felt or fabrics instead of paper. The pictures are great and the instructions for the projects are very good with follow along photos. It covers a whole variety of crafts, beading, paper, ribbon, etc. I like almost everything in this book. If you are brand new to crafting you may have to purchase some of the tools used in this book but I think new crafters would enjoy this book a great deal.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great crafting book!, March 3, 2010

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Sharon R. Wilson "yoncalla roses" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This is one of those books that with every page you turn you say "wow" I want to do that project. Highly recommend it.