With 18 sheets of embossed die-cut paper scraps packaged together with a 48-page source book, this nifty package provides step-by-step instructions for 10 projects, and even gives you the paper motifs with which to make them. The technique is basically a variant of decoupage, but most of the cutting has already been done for you. As Victorian Christmas explains, the lovely scraps can be used to decorate a cookie tin, pie platter, table centerpiece, wassail bowl, potpourri jar, or your own decorations. Sprinkled throughout are beautiful photographs and paragraphs explaining various Victorian customs, such as the traditions of gift-giving, card-making, and tree-decorating.
From Publishers Weekly
This appealingly designed portfolio, pack with instruction book and 75 embossed facsimiles of 19th-century cutouts for use in the 10 projects outlined, fails to deliver on the promise of its packaging. The paper cutouts and scraps are ample and pleasantly traditional, but the book, which contains brief histories of Victorian customs and rituals, quotations from literature and seasonal recipes, falters in its craft instructions for the projects, which cover traditional decoupage, faux-plaid painting and simple gilding of gift items ranging from cookie tins and holiday candles to candy boxes, table centerpieces and wassail bowls for New Year's Eve. Brief historical perspectives are somewhat slight; pictures of finished crafts are crowded and less than helpful, and some of the instructional illustrations are superfluous.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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