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Books > Health, Home & Family > Handicrafts > General
Bestselling author Marty Noble allows you to express your creative
streak and color Day of the Dead sugar skulls! Sugar skulls, or
calaveras, mark the arrival of the Dia de los Muertos, or Day of
the Dead, in November. To celebrate this traditional Mexican
holiday when the living honor their departed loved ones, sugar is
molded into skull shapes and decorated with colors, patterns, and
designs that delight, charm, and fascinate. Now, decorate your own
sugar skulls within the pages of a coloring book. Designed by the
bestselling coloring book artist Marty Noble, the book features
forty-eight gorgeous and intricate line illustrations of both human
and animal skulls. These specially crafted sugar skulls range
across different aesthetic influences and complexity levels for
both the amateur and advanced colorist. They are adorned with
flowers, plants, patterns, wildlife, macabre imagery, and
traditional Mexican art motifs that will engage your inner
creativity and get your coloring juices flowing. These pages are
perforated and printed on one side, allowing colorists to remove
and display their finished designs easily. Whether on November 1
and 2, or throughout the year, Marty Noble's Sugar Skulls offers an
absorbing and fascinating coloring experience with page after page
of unique sugar skull designs!
Welcome to a lovely world of flowers and patterns! Inside you ll
find 32 modern floral coloring activities from visionary designer
Debra Valencia. Perfect for enhancing with markers, colored
pencils, gel pens, crayons, or watercolors, each of these superb
illustrations serves as a springboard for creative expression.
Pages and pages of beautifully colored samples are included to
spark your imagination. Multiple color schemes are presented side
by side, to show how different approaches can make the same design
look radically different. Gorgeous hand-colored examples in a
variety of art mediums are also provided from best-selling craft
author Marie Browning. Printed on one side of high quality,
extra-thick paper that resists bleed through, each page is
perforated for easy removal from the book. Frame your completed
artwork for display, or use it as inspiration for gifts, home
decor, needlepoint, stenciling, wall murals, and more."
Another fun and fresh coloring book from popular brand tokidoki.
With a mix of complex patterns and stand-alone images, this is the
perfect way to put your own personal stamp on Donutella, Unicorno,
Mermicorno, and all of the other tokidoki friends. A follow-up to
our first coloring book from tokidoki, it's an extension of the
brand's fun, graphic approach that works well as a complement to
the full tokidoki line of merchandise.
Fall under the spell of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Enchanted
Forest! This stunning colouring book by Johanna Basford takes
readers on an inky quest through an enchanted forest to discover
what lies in the castle at its heart. As well as drawings to
complete, colour, and embellish, there are hidden objects to be
found along the way. Can you spot the wild flowers, animals, and
birds? What about the lanterns, keys, and treasure chests?
Beginning at the entrance to the forest, the journey progresses
through woodlands, rocky caves, and tree-lined mazes. Colour your
way past streams and waterfalls and over treetops, until you
finally reach your destination: a secluded, magical castle. Hidden
throughout the book are nine symbols. Readers must find all the
symbols to unlock the castle door at the end of the quest and
discover what lies within. Additional special features include a
gate-folded two-page spread and a colourable jacket. Praise for the
book and author: "The colourists have a queen, and her name is
Johanna Basford." - New York Magazine "Consider trading in your
yoga mat for a set of markers and peruse the gorgeous gardens of
Basford's imagination." - The Huffington Post "The best colouring
book for anxiety." - Teen Vogue"This book celebrates the glory of
all things green and nature-y in the best way possible: coloring
book form! Even if you don't want to add color, the illustrations
themselves are frame-worthy loveliness." mdash; Brit+ Co Other
popular titles by Johanna Basford include: * Secret Garden *
Johanna Basford's Secret Garden Journal * Secret Garden: 20
Postcards * Enchanted Forest: 12 Colour-in Notecards * Enchanted
Forest: 20 Postcards Fans of Leila Duly, Millie Marotta, and Daisy
Fletcher will devour Johanna Basford's intricate scenes of flora
and fauna. To learn more about her latest offerings, visit
Basford's author website at www.johannabasford.com
The soaps, shampoos, and household cleaning products that you use
are often loaded with chemicals...How can you be sure that you
won't end up suffering from the harmful chemicals that these
products can bring to your body? You use them every day, and what's
more horrifying is that you might be allergic to them without even
knowing it. After reading this book, not only will you be able to
make many different types of soaps, but you will be a lot more
knowledgeable about skin care and what each ingredient does to your
body. Let's get you started on a healthy lifestyle with the soap
you make yourself! This book is perfect for beginners. You will
find tons of recipes for every kind of soap imaginable. These
products are healthy and easy to make and use. This is a
step-by-step guide that leaves nothing unsaid about soap making.
You don't need to have any prior knowledge about soap or beauty
products to be able to create your own soap from this book.
Protect that beautiful hand-forged knife you've just completed or
keep your favorite piece of cutlery close for daily use with a
leather sheath. From basic leather working techniques to a
completed sheath, this how-to book will walk you through the steps
to produce your own fixed-blade knife sheath. Choose from four
different designs, each presented in detail, including a sheath
with folded belt loop, a scabbard with leather lining and riveted
belt loop, a sheath with safety strap and attached belt loop, and a
scabbard with belt clip. Complete with illustrated tips on
sketching the sheath design and treating the leather, as well as
four complete sheath patterns and a supply list, this guide will
provide you with the know-how and tools to make sheaths of your own
design.
The Second Edition of Cosplay - The Beginner's Masterclass is
longer, more detailed and has dozens of new pictures and
illustrations! Veteran cosplayers Miyuu Takahara and Kenji Weston
team up experience to give new and aspiring cosplayers the
introductory guide they deserve. Expertly composed, this book
contains hundreds of images, many of which illustrate the advice,
instruction and ideas discussed. Each cosplay topic and technique
is explained lucidly, comprehensively and straightforwardly. All
manner of costumes are closely examined: superheroes and
supervillains, video game characters, and of course those from
Japanese anime and manga culture. Hundreds of hours of research and
collaboration were lavished upon this book. To write it, the
authors drew on the spirit of commitment and passion that is at the
very core of good cosplay. It is guaranteed to give newbies and
beginners plus even experienced cosplayers the guidance and tips
they need to do well in this, the most epic of hobbies.
For those who work with FIBER in weaving, spinning, crocheting,
knitting, macrame; for those who work with CLOTH in batik,
tie-dying, quilting, applique, soft sculpture, sewing. With this
book you can come one step closer to making it from ""scratch"" -
increasing your involvement and satisfaction in your craft, while
enhancing the beauty and value of your finished uh_product. Rich,
soft, subtle colors, not easily copied by synthetic man-made dyes,
are commonly obtained from natural dye sources. The end reward is
beautiful natural colors, but equally rewarding is the pleasure to
be derived from collecting natural materials and from the dyeing
process itself. The world around you becomes a treasure house of
""hidden"" possibilities, with common and readily available plant
materials yielding colors that can be as surprising as they are
special. Like the ancient Hawaiians who colored their tapa cloth
with dyes from kukui, ferns, and other plants of their islands, you
become more sensitive to your natural environment. A greater
respect for craftspeople of the past and a deeper appreciation for
the materials are every natural dyer's gain. Val Frieling
Krohn-Ching is a distinguished weaving and textile design artist
whose curiosity and desire for experimenting has also made her the
authority on dyeing with plant materials in Hawaii using wool
fibers. She now shares the results of her years of experimentation
- and her enthusiasm - with others. Even beginners can use her
basic principles and techniques successfully to achieve new results
of their own. Hawaii Dye Plants and Dye Recipes is itself an
artistic production, filled with charming, botanically accurate
pen-and-ink drawings to aid in plant identification. Instructions
are concise and easy to follow. Interesting information about each
plant enlivens the text, as do personal comments about the author's
experimentation and sources of natural materials. A color chart,
photographed from actual wool samples prepared by the author, shows
more than 300 beautiful results that the natural dyer can achieve
using recipes in this book.
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