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Handmade Birthdays: 101 Gift, Cake & Card Ideas for Ages 1 to 101 (Better Homes & Gardens)

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This isn't a book for kids parties or cards. This has projects for the ladies you love and also men. Imaginative cards, and I love the mosiac look of a cake with hard candy on top. I think the painted desk accessories would be more for a teenager. The cupcakes decorated with rolled gumdrops (bees etc OR fruits) are my favorite! A little bit of everything: from card to cake making to a smattering of gifts. Fun book.

Better Homes and Gardens has added another great book to their standard of excellence. The book is divided into 3 sections. The first part introduces some very artistic cards with some wonderfully fun and decorative ideas and detailed instructions, supply list, and envelope ideas. At the end of this section are patterns of envelopes on graph paper, making them easier to duplicate. Second, cakes which are beautiful, fun, and not as difficult as you might think. Again with recipe, directions and display ideas. The last section contains creative gift ideas with full instructions. This book has color photos on quality paper. I do alot of rubber stamping and found this book full of new and cleaver ideas.

As a Sunday school teacher, who is always looking for new ideas, this book was a welcomed edition to my library. The cards and gifts were inexpensive, easy, and beautiful to make. Also, the price of this book made this a great value. The only minor flaw that I found with this book was in the cake decorating chapter, where I felt that the measurements of how to cut the cake was not detailed enough. Other cake decorating books have a diagram of how to cut the cake according to inches. This book did not. However, I feel that this is still an excellent purchase. I love looking through it for new tips. The book's cover is very pretty as well.

My niece brought this book from the library. Looking at it together, we loved it. I especially loved that *every* cake in it (all the cakes are amazing!) can be make with regular cake pans (round or square). Many other cake books require special pans, which we don't have and can't afford. There are other beautiful craft projects in the book, such as gorgeous birthdays cards. We both highly recommend this book.