Paper Cutting for Celebrations: 100+ Chinese Designs for Festive Holidays and Special Occasions - Softcover

Zhao, Ziping

9781602201491: Paper Cutting for Celebrations: 100+ Chinese Designs for Festive Holidays and Special Occasions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602201498 ISBN 13: 9781602201491

Publisher: Shanghai Press, 2014

Whether you are looking for a special birthday gift or a romantic Valentine to brighten your sweetheart's day, Paper Cutting for Celebrations is sure to provide wonderful and unique ideas!

Let your imagination shine as you design different papercraft projects suitable for nine occasions and holidays, including:

Birthdays
Baby Showers and Births
Weddings and Anniversaries
Valentine's Day
Mother's Day
Father's Day

From window decorations to ornaments, wind chimes to greeting cards, coasters to lanterns, Paper Cutting for Celebrations—and a pair of scissors—gives you everything you will need to create over 100 different paper cutting projects. Impress your friends and family with the beautiful and unexpected creations to be found in Paper Cutting for Celebrations.

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About the Author:

Zhao Ziping is a professional paper cutting artist at the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Research Institute. He began his study there in 1962 as a student of Wang Zigan, a distinguished artist known for his Shanghai-Style paper cutting, and in 2005, Zhao was honored as a "Master of Arts and Crafts" by the Shanghai Municipal Government. Zhao has developed a simple and fluid style with a distinctive touch. A rich imagination and deft designing skills allow him to cut paper directly into two vibrant works, yin and yang, without a preliminary draft. He is quite adept at impromptu performance. Through lectures, performances and exhibitions, Zhao has visited many countries, including the US, France, Germany, Holland, Japan and Norway. Major honors include a solo exhibition at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, and an honorary certificate from Peru's National School of Fine Arts.

Review:

"The book contains over 100 Chinese designs for festive holidays and special occasions for you to make your gift look unique and extra special." —ET Speaks from Home blog

"This book is not just for the Chinese New Year. In fact it has chapters for Birthday, New Born, Weddings and Anniversaries, Graduation and Promotion, Housewarming, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day as well as New Year. Each chapter is full of patterns to make paper cut decorations for the various holidays and events." —Crafty Moms Share blog

"There are over 100 Chinese Designs for Festive Holidays and Special Occasions created by Zhao Ziping, a professional paper-cutting artist at the Shanghai Arts & Crafts Research Institute. Paper cutting is easy to learn, requires few materials and can be used to create a wide range of decorative projects. All you need is scissors, then cut, copy or scan the designs from the book while learning their symbolic meaning. With Valentine's Day (February 14) and Chinese New Year (February 19) approaching you will find many uses for your paper cuts. There are varying levels of difficulty in the book." —Handmade by Deb blog

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