- Making
Greeting Cards With Creative Materials by Maryjo McGraw ISBN:
1581801262
- Best-selling author MaryJo
McGraw's newest book showcases how to create imaginative and
artistic greeting cards from innovative materials. In this book,
she branches out beyond her rubber-stamping roots to deliver
to readers a whole new world of creative card making. Paper crafters,
collage artists, weekend crafters and rubber stampers now can
create unique greeting cards, announcements and invitations with
beautiful papers and fanciful embellishments. A wide array of
papers from around the world, amazing fabrics, ribbons, mica
chips, foils, feathers, yarns, wax, embossing powders, store-bought
tags, and many household and hardware store items comprise the
list of interesting and unusual materials McGraw adopts for card-making
purposes. Readers will also find: * An overview of basic folds
and sizes of greeting cards * Information on weights, grains
and varieties of paper and suitable adhesives * 8 basic card-making
techniques demonstrated with corresponding step-by-step projects
* Projects suitable for beginners and experienced crafters alike
* Projects that can be completed in under an hour, some in ten
minutes * A resource guide full of stores, magazines and web
sites to help locate the materials used in the book Blending
fun and "user-friendliness" with variety and creativity,
McGraw encourages the reader to go beyond basic greeting cards
to design one-of-a-kind projects.
- About the Author
MaryJo McGraw has written three books for North Light: Creative
Rubber Stamping Techniques, Greeting Card Magic with Rubber Stamps
and Making Greeting Cards with Rubber Stamps (Over 75,000 sold!).
She is a rubber stamp artist and demonstrator employed by JudiKins
Rubber Stamp Co. She lives in Whittier, California.
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