The Paper Card Book [Paperback]

Lisa Kerr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1997

Buying cards is boring, making cards is fun.

Card-crazy artist Lisa Kerr demonstrates how to make more than fifteen different card designs. Cards made with gift wrap, ticket stubs, and maps; cards that holds photos, mementos, and dried flowers; cards that fold-out, pop-up, and close with a button, are all featured plus many more designs. These cards are easy to make: just follow the step-by-step instructions shown in each chapter, or use the techniques to create designs of your own.

Editorial Reviews

Review

If you're just getting started in the art of card-making, The Paper Card Book by Lisa Kerr provides all the guidance and inspiration you need. The author's 15 projects range from simple potato-stamped greeting cards to intermediate accordion-fold books and photo mailers. Kerr covers basic card-making skills such as collage art, ribbon weaving, multi-layered cards that resemble hand-sewn books, fold-out cards, and handmade envelopes. The book concludes with a chapter on papermaking using the dip method. A dozen decorative paper samples are included. -- Somerset Studio, March/April 1999

About the Author

Boston-based author and artist Lisa Kerr has been making cards for more than fifteen years. In 1990, her one-time hobby developed into "Monolisa Worldwide", a successful business that creates cards, blank journals, and photo albums, and distributes them through gift stores in the U.S. and Europe. Kerr has traveled all over the world, gathering unique papers and techniques to use in her card-making. She currently teaches card-making in Boston, Massachusetts. This is her first book.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 81 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Pub (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564963276
• ISBN-13: 978-1564963277
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,422,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous inspirations and instruction, July 8, 2000

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Shelley Gammon "Geek" (Kaufman, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Paper Card Book (Paperback)

This is a beautifully presented book with bright, step-by-step photographs that show implicitly how to accomplish the final project. This book will inspire you to create beyond the projects in this book... and you learn more than just making greeting cards.

There is a brief and to-the-point tutorial on how to make your own paper, and you're shown effective ways to make envelopes and photo mailers as well. Instructions on how to use materials properly and introductions to techniques on making potato stamps and more.

Not only will this be an inspiration to the crafty person, but it can also give you a springboard for ideas in self-promotion items for packaging, marketing and advertising. Excellent book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good resource for beginners & neophytes in card making, May 27, 2000

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Carol (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Paper Card Book (Paperback)

Lisa Kerr's, The Paper Card Book, is a colorful, pictoral resource for anyone interested in making cards, envelopes, mailers, and homemade paper. She presents those needed pictoral how-tos, material lists for each project, tips/suggestions, with the finale of finding an interesting selection of paper samples at the end of the book. The ideas presented are appropriate for stamping and other card making techniques, and would be an appropriate gift for a beginning stamper, an individual who is new to card making, or for a library reference.