Making Cards in a Weekend: Inspirational Ideas and Practical Projects

by Jain Suckling

Book Overview

Handmade cards are a great way to make personal notes even more heartfelt, and this guide makes it fun and easy for crafters to do it themselves. Twenty unique and colorful card designs incorporate a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581800800
• ISBN13: 9781581800807
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

card making

A quick lesson in card making which is so popular now. Easy instructions and picture guides to follow in making your own cards to keep or share. A good addition to your card-making library.

Great Ideas

This book contains tons of great ideas for making all sorts of greeting cards for many different occasions. It's full of bright color photos. Each card is pictured alongside detailed, step-by-step instructions. Many cards are made with special tools or materials, but you can usually easilly improvise if you don't have something on hand. The "Getting Started" section at the beginning of the book is broken up into two sections: "Basic Equiptment", and "Basic Techniques". Some basic equiptment listed is paper and cardboard, handmade papers, a cutting mat, craft knife, scissors, rulers, PVA adhesive, spray adhesive, and more. It gives a good idea of what will be handy to have. The "Basic Techniques" section has paragraphs dedicated to techniques such as cutting a window and mounting a design. Overall, I really like this book. You can change what ever you'd like about the cards, so really they're great ideas from start to finish as well as great templates for ideas. I checked this book out from the library to see if I liked it instead of buying a copy right away. I suggest doing the same so you can see ig you like it for yourself, but I hope I helped. Enjoy :)

Who'd stop with just a weekend!

These card ideas will keep you going long after the weekend is done...not due to difficulty, but because you will want to make them ALL!

Excellent resource for card makers.

I kept saying "Wow" as I started looking through this book. I've been making cards for several years and have used many magazines and books as a resource for ideas. The cards and ideas in this book were all different from those we see in the magazines/books around here..it could be because the book is from England. Very much worth the price.