Creative Image Transfer—Any Artist, Any Style, Any Surface

Creative Image Transfer—Any Artist, Any Style, Any Surface
Author: Lesley Riley
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607058324

Join the creator of Lesley Riley’s TAP Transfer Artist Paper and a cadre of talented designers, including several frequent contributors to Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, to explore exciting new ideas to create with TAP. With a sheet of TAP and a hot iron, you can transfer a permanent image onto almost any solid surface. Try 16 fun, new projects ranging from jewelry to home accessories and mixed-media arts. Learn to transfer images onto new surfaces such as faux bone, as well as fabric, paper, wood, metal, and glass; use with encaustic. Use the many techniques as a jumping-off point for creating your own TAP magic.

Spellbinders Nestabilities

Spellbinders Nestabilities
Author: Drg Publishing
Publisher: Annie's
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Handicraft
ISBN: 9781596353596

This showcase of intricate paper craft projects will tempt crafters to create new designs with the popular Nestabilities die-cut paper sets. Patterns for cards, party favors, gift wrap, invitations, package toppers, ornaments, and more are detailed, with an array of options for variations. There are projects at every skill level for a variety of significant events--birthdays, winter holidays, new baby, and significant life moments. Each chapter offers different style choices including contemporary and fun, sophisticated and elegant, and vintage/shabby chic. Easy-to-follow instructions, complete materials lists, and professionally styled photos make exploring new paper craft ideas quick, fun, and foolproof.

Scrapbook Tips & Techniques

Scrapbook Tips & Techniques
Author: Creating Keepsakes
Publisher: Leisure Arts
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 160900163X

Presents 365 ideas, tips, and techniques for making innovative pages for a scrapbook.

Zentangle

Zentangle
Author: Jane Marbaix
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2015-12-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1784281646

Aimed at beginners, this book shows how beautiful images can be created from repeating patterns. Accredited Zentangle teacher Jane Marbaix demonstrates a range of patterns one step at a time and offers a sourcebook of her own designs to inspire tanglers to try something different. Proven to reduce stress and enhance creativity in people of all ages, Zentangle does not require a background in practical art or expensive materials to produce pleasing results.

Resin Alchemy

Resin Alchemy
Author: Susan Lenart Kazmer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-07-17
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 162033464X

Discover one of the hottest trends in mixed media--resin! Join mixed-media and jewelry artist Susan Lenart Kazmer as she opens new frontiers in her application of resin techniques. Resin Alchemy offers detailed step-by-step technique tutorials on using resin, from the basics of mixing and pouring to using bezels and key metalworking techniques that expand design options. She explores creating artistic effects with: • Color • Found objects • Texture • Casting • Collage • And, more! It doesn't stop there! Learn how to incorporate stories, words, meaningful images, and more in the layers of your resin jewelry. Susan shares her wealth of tips for collecting great found objects and for layering and encasing storiesâ€"in short, how to bring both great technique and great imagination to bear on jewelry making. Throughout the book, you'll enjoy easy step-by-step projects and finished pieces.

Designer Cards & Tags with Anna Griffin

Designer Cards & Tags with Anna Griffin
Author: Anna Griffin
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2005
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402720048

Renowned for her fabulous decorative papers, Anna Griffin lends her design expertise to beautiful card and gift tag projects. Gatefolds, dimensional motifs, scalloped borders, embossed embellishments, die- cut frames, and artfully mixed and matched patterns are among the special touches that set Griffin's cards apart from others.

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces
Author: Jane Davenport
Publisher:
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1592539866

Perfect for aspiring designers, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed-media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration–style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist and international workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy, and encouraging style. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces, Davenport guides you, step by step, through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting, and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed-media portraits. With this elegantly designed guidebook, you will quickly master a variety of techniques in a variety ofmediums, including: Pencil Marker Pen Watercolor Acrylic paint Ink Pastel Ephemera Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces will have you dancing your way through the exercises. In no time at all, you will have a selection of beautifully faced portraits ready to view, display, or even sell to a fashion designer.

Folded Flowers

Folded Flowers
Author: Kumiko Sudo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Appliqué
ISBN: 9780972121804

Beautiful and simple, this book contains designs and step-by-step instructions for Japanese-inspired origami quilts and purses.

A Compendium of Curiosities

A Compendium of Curiosities
Author: Tim Holtz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-01-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780615545080

Not your typical how to book, but inspirational papercraft and mixed media projects designed by Tim Holtz.