The Paper Card Book - Softcover

Kerr, Lisa

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ISBN 10: 1564963276 ISBN 13: 9781564963277

Publisher: Rockport Pub, 1997

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Buying cards is boring, making cards is fun.

Card-crazy artist Lisa Kerr demonstrates how to make more than fifteen different card designs. Cards made with gift wrap, ticket stubs, and maps; cards that holds photos, mementos, and dried flowers; cards that fold-out, pop-up, and close with a button, are all featured plus many more designs. These cards are easy to make: just follow the step-by-step instructions shown in each chapter, or use the techniques to create designs of your own.

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About the Author:

Boston-based author and artist Lisa Kerr has been making cards for more than fifteen years. In 1990, her one-time hobby developed into "Monolisa Worldwide", a successful business that creates cards, blank journals, and photo albums, and distributes them through gift stores in the U.S. and Europe. Kerr has traveled all over the world, gathering unique papers and techniques to use in her card-making. She currently teaches card-making in Boston, Massachusetts. This is her first book.

My mother recently showed me a few cards that I had made for her in my childhood. They were assembled with pieces of old greeting cards, sprinkled with glitter, and tied together with brightly colored yarns. I laughed at the technique and the prose, but I treasured the sentiment. It was then that I realized how long I have actually been making cards and what compels me to do it. Making a handmade card is a special and perhaps intimate acknowledgment of a friend or a family member, conveying thoughts that are sometimes difficult to say in person. I would think of actually buying a card because of the pleasure I derive from making a unique one for each person I know.

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