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Punch Your Art Out 3: Creative Paper Punch Ideas for Scrapbooks with Techniques in Color, Pattern & Dimension

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I have been an independent scrapbooking consultant and informant for over 3 years now. I own over one hundred punches, and have been doing punch art for over 2 years. I also own almost every punch art book available on the market. In my opinion, Punch Your Art Out 3 offers more quality and useful content than any punch art book published yet. The book contains great information, beautiful and vibrant pictures, and examples which are exciting and easy to follow. This book is worth so much more than I paid for it. It is definitely a keeper. I just can't seem to stop picking it up and looking at it over and over!

I have enjoyed paper crafts for some time now, but one thing I thought I would avoid is using punches. I thought that they may be complicated to work with or I didn't know how to get mroe out of them. This book is SUPER about showing all sorts of ways to decorate with punches. My favorite feature is "One Punch" pages, where a single punch is shown used several different ways. A must buy for paper crafters!

I have been an independent scrapbooking consultant and informant for over 3 years now. I own over one hundred punches, and have been doing punch art for over 2 years. I also own almost every punch art book available on the market. In my opinion, Punch Your Art Out 3 offers more quality and useful content than any punch art book published yet. The book contains great information, beautiful and vibrant pictures, and examples which are exciting and easy to follow. This book is worth so much more than I paid for it. It is definitely a keeper. I just can't seem to stop picking it up and looking at it over and over!

I love Volume 1 of this series. It has simple, easy to create products. This volume contains much more time intensive projects. Even my avid scrapbook buddies agree that this book is definately not as good as the first one.

This book predates many of the modern embellishments that are now available ready-made and takes you back to a time when there were less tools (punches being among the most exciting) and a more limited amount of options as far as paper, textures, materials, and supplies. Scrapbooking then wasn't as sophisticated or as expensive, and more imagination and patience were required. In short, it was really much more of a do-it-yourself hobby. The book, though published in 2002, already looks a little dated since so many trends have cycled through between now and then.

What this book did (& still does) is give you ideas on how to take an inexpensive and low-tech product, such as a paper punch, and by cutting, combining, layering, coloring, and arranging creatively, create a more visually appealing and complex design. It teaches you to think outside the box: a simple heart punch doesn't just make hearts, it can create borders, form flowers, form geometric or kaleidoscope-like forms, and countless designs. All of which allow you to squeeze every penny of your investment in the punch and use up scraps creatively. In that sense, it is timeless.