This source book is loaded with ideas for using traditional scrapbooking techniques to enhance your home decor and turn ordinary everyday items into great gifts or to recycle discarded articles and found objects for further functionality. It shows you how to transform and personalise almost anything by incorporating photos and mementos combined with scrapbook paper, card stock and embellishments. Gorgeous photographs of every project in a home setting will inspire you and step-by-step instructions and photographs show you how; Fun, quirky and unusual projects; Fabulous gifts and keepsakes; Finishes range from simple and stylish to bold and over the top; Recycle tins, jars, pallet wood, frames and even shopping bags. Preserving memories in clever, creative ways, putting them on display on your walls and shelves or turning them into much appreciated gifts remain the focus. This book will soon have you look at almost any item as a possible canvas for photos and collage. From a small, photo-lined envelope to a huge display door made from pallet-wood, the more than 55 projects in the book will appeal to crafters of a wide range of skills and experience.

One of the most popular crafts to re-emerge recently, decoupage is ideal to decorate just about anything, from small household items to large pieces of furniture. Starting with tools and materials, preparation of bases and blanks, choosing napkins, paper and fabric, cutting techniques and finding the perfect product for the effect you want to achieve, the book contains more than 50 appealing projects with clear step by step instructions and photographs. Following the trend to upcycle, decoupage is a fun and easy way to transform just about anything as it works on a wide range of surfaces, from glass and plastic to fabric and wood. Combining traditional and new techniques with the huge variety of specialist products available today there is no limit to what you can achieve. Suitable for beginners, this lavishly illustrated book will also inspire experienced crafters. The text is packed with useful information, helpful hints and sound advice.

An invaluable resource for every card maker! Filled with ideas for card makers of all levels and especially useful when you just don't know where to start, this fabulous collection of blueprints will simplify the process of creating beautiful cards. Basic information on colour, composition and balance is practically applied in easy to follow sketches that will help you save time and give you a basic design so you can focus your creativity on selecting and combining the different elements. Each sketch has detailed information on the proportion, placement and sizes of all elements, so you can use your existing supply of paper, cardstock and embellishments to create the cards, knowing that all the elements will be balanced and the card visually pleasing. They are both time-saving and a great way to use up scraps from earlier paper projects. Each sketch has multiple application possibilities when rotated clockwise or anti clockwise, or flipped horizontally or vertically, or inverted. Layouts are included for standard, square, oblong and large cards in both vertical and horizontal orientation. Each sketch is illustrated with multiple examples of cards made by different card makers, showing you several applications of the same plan in different styles, from really simple to intricately layered ones. Examples show how the same basic design can be used for several occasions, from birthdays to wedding invitations. With a basic plan in hand you can think out of the box and use embellishments and paper combinations in ways that you have never thought of before.

'n Onmisbare hulpbron vir elke kaartjiemaker. Hierdie boek is propvol idees vir kaartjiemakers op alle vlakke en kom met sy wonderlike versameling bloudrukke besonder handig te pas as jou muse stil raak. Dit vereenvoudig die proses en verseker pragtige handgemaakte kaartjies. Basiese inligting oor kleur, komposisie en balans word prakties toegepas in eenvoudige getekende planne wat jy vinnig kan volg sodat jy jou skeppende energie kan gebruik vir die kies en samestelling van die verskillende elemente. Daar is by elke plan gedetailleerde inligting oor die verhoudings, plasing en groottes van al die elemente sodat jy jou bestaande karton, papier en tooisels kan gebruik om kaartjies te maak met die versekering al die elemente in balans en die kaartjie visueel treffend sal wees. So kan jy nie net tyd bespaar nie, maar ook oorskietstukkies papier benut. Elke plan kan op verskeie maniere toegepas word deur dit regsom of linksom, horisontaal of vertikaal te draai of om te keer. Daar is vertikale en horisontale uitlegte vir standaardgrootte, vierkantige, langwerpige en groot kaartjies. Elke plan word geillustreer met foto's van verskeie kaartjies wat daarvolgens gemaak is wat wys hoe dieselfde plan verskillende toepassingsmoontlikhede het - van regtig eenvoudig tot ingewikkelde laag-op-laag kaartjies. Voorbeelde toon hoe dieselfde basiese ontwerp vir kaartjies vir verskillende geleenthede gebruik kan word - van Valentynsdag tot Kersfees. Met 'n basiese plan tot jou beskikking kan jy jou verbeelding vrye teuels gee en jou papier en tooisels op maniere gebruik waaraan jy nog nie gedink het nie.

Hierdie nuttige boek is propvol idees vir die gebruik van tradisionele fotoplaktegnieke om jou huis te verfraai, gewone alledaagse artikels in lieflike geskenke te omskep of weggooigoed en optelgoed vir verdere gebruik te herwin en op te dollie. Dit wys jou hoe om bykans enigiets om te tower en persoon-spesifiek te maak deur foto's en onthougoed slim met fotoplakpapier, karton en tooisels te kombineer. Lieflike foto's van elke projek in 'n huisomgewing sal jou inspireer terwyl die geillustreerde stap-vir-stap aanwysings jou wys hoe; Prettige, ongewone en vindingryke projekte; Fantastiese geskenke en beregoed; Afwerkings wissel van stylvol en eenvoudig tot uitbundig en oordadig; Herwinning van blikke, flesse, bottels, hout-pallette, rame en selfs inkoopsakke. Die fokus van die boek is om herinneringe op slim en kreatiewe maniere te bewaar deur items te skep wat op jou mure en rakke ten toon gestel kan word. Met hierdie boek sal jy kort voor lank na net mooi enigiets as 'n moontlike skilderdoek kyk. Die meer as 55 projekte in die boek wissel van 'n klein koevert met 'n fotobinneblad, tot 'n groot vertoondeur van pallethout en sal byval vind by handwerkers met uiteenlopende agtergronde en vaardigheidsvlakke.