Paper Punch Art [Hardcover]

Laura Torres (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up

GENERAL FEATURES: With Paper Punch Art you can add punch to your pictures and crafts with this creative activity book. It comes with paper punches in four fun shapes, colorful paper, and ideas for over 200 decorative designs! A great gift for that creative girl! Winner of a 2001 Gold NAPPA Award! Hardcover. 48 pages. Recommended for children eight and up.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: American Girl; Book and Access edition (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584852860
• ISBN-13: 978-1584852865
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,834,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, August 31, 2004

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tspwlv "tspwlv" (Westlake Village, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paper Punch Art (Hardcover)

This book may have one or two cute ideas, but it's mainly geared towards kids' crafts and the ideas are very simple. Anyone could come up with most of these just by playing with their punches for an afternoon. The punches themselves were so cheaply made that they fell apart before I could even use them. It's a much better idea to buy a few good quality punches with the money you'd spend on this book and see what you can come up with on your own.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good starter book, December 25, 2002

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M. Zimmerman (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paper Punch Art (Hardcover)

This is a great book for folks just beginning to create punch art. HOWEVER, be warned that the resulting punches are very tiny - the artwork in the book is enlarged to show detail. If you are trying to create archival punch art, you will need to get a glue pen or the adhesive and punches will get very unwieldy very fast. Also, the quality of the punches that came with my book was not great - I have to punch down superhard to get the punches to cut completely, and the heart punch fell apart in the hands of my 5-year-old. Overall, the ideas are wonderful and helpful, but the execution is not as easy as it looks! Buy this book, but be warned that you might have to invest more money in better-quality punches.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent aid in embellishing scrap pages or anything else!, January 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Paper Punch Art (Hardcover)

I bought the last copy of this from my local [store]! It was a gift for my daughter, and we have both enjoyed it. I searched high and low to find additional copies to give as gifts to my daughter's friends and cousins --- that's how good this is.

Another reviewer mentioned the small size of the products -- yes, when you're using the punches provided (but they are still very usable). The ideas are easily transferable, however, to uses with larger punches or even die cuts! My daughter has created some awesome embellisments for her scrapbook pages using the ideas in this book. Purchase and enjoy!