Handmade Decorative Books (Passion for Paper) - Softcover

Roddis, Sue

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9781844483143: Handmade Decorative Books (Passion for Paper)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844483142 ISBN 13: 9781844483143

Publisher: Search Press, 2010

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Learn how to make flag books, star books, accordian books and more. Decorate them with stamping, collage, stitching and embellishments. This innovative step-by-step guide offers simple and challenging ideas and crafters will love the colourful projects and great designs. An innovative, practical guide containing all you need to know to create unique, decorated books.

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About the Author:

Sue Roddis was raised by a craft-loving mother, and grew up surrounded by fabrics and wools. She took up cross stitching, then enrolled on a creative embroidery course for a City & Guilds qualification. While studying embroidery, she discovered rubber stamping. She says it was as though 'another world opened up!' She soon began teaching workshops, before moving on to writing magazine articles. She has contributed to many craft magazine titles, in both the US and the UK.

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Most craft books veer from artistic to eminently practical, usually including a bit of each extreme to satisfy a range of experiences. This small tome imported from England makes no bones about its perspective, offering a handful of projects to follow while introducing a new craft. In this case, the subject is bookmaking, and it was created by a longtime artisan as part of the Passion for Paper series. As the title suggests, UK author Roddis promotes any number of techniques, with a primary focus on rubber stamping coupled with clever uses of photocopying, taping, gluing, and stitching, among other tools. Her seven projects, designwise, tend toward the funky and cluttered; the first, “My Heart Has Wings,” is a stamped, embellished, unusual valentine-shaped book. Yet each project features excellent step-by-step illustrations with color photographs, along with the requisite inclusions (materials, templates as appropriate)—plus at least two to three finished variations on that particular style. Choose among flag, stitched, piano-hinged, and star-shaped books, and know that your creation will truly be one of a kind. --Barbara Jacobs

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