Simply Cards: Over 100 Stylish Cards You Can Make in Minutes

by Sally Traidman

Book Overview

Over 100 stylish and fun handmade cards!

You really can craft a handmade card in a matter of moments. It's simple with Simply Cards! Sally Traidman offers a wealth of beautifully designed cards that are easy to make, but hard to forget. With step-by-step illustrations, complete material lists and plenty of insider tips, you'll be crafting fabulous cards in no time at all!

Using gorgeous papers, the latest inks and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581806744
• ISBN13: 9781581806748
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: North Light Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Better than expected!

I'm just beginning to make cards so when I read the reviews I thought this sounded like a good book to start. It's so much better than I expected. With these cards no one will know I'm a beginner! It also has very helpful pointers about supplies and techniques. It was an excellent choice & I imagine I will use it for a long time to come.

BEGINNERS MUST HAVE

I am a beginner to card making, starting when I thought it shouldn't be difficult. But then when I have all of the materials needed, which were ready made blank cards and some stickers, then I realized alot more is needed, and the most importantly: "the know how". This book is awesome, it teaches me in a simple and clear way how to do easy, great and classy cards. It helps me tremendously, as it also explains what tools and accessories to buy. Now I found out that making cards is not simple, and it also expensive.. It's fun though.

Thumbs up

Simply Cards is a wonderful book for beginners like myself. Sally uses different techniques with stamps, assorted papers, masks, embossing powders and watercolors. When your finished you have a wonderful 3-D card for yourself or a friend. I would recommend this book to anyone from beginner to craftperson.

Card-making Simplified

This book is excellent for the beginning card maker, but also challenging enough to satisfy the experienced. I especially like that each project offers a second option using the same or similar materials. The photos are clear and very helpful with the instructions for each card. Each card project is on a two page layout making it very easy and clear to understand. And "simply" is the key word. There are no highly involved, time consuming projects. You could sit down after supper and enjoy the satisfaction of a finished project before bedtime. In this busy time constrained world, what more could you ask for?

This is one for Hero Arts Stamp lovers!

This is an utterly fantastic book. In fact it was so good that I purchased 3 copies, 2 of which are gifts for my sisters for Christmas. The book uses a lot of Hero Arts Stamps in it card designs, and as I and my sisters love the range of stamps produced by this company (we have lots of the stamps in our rubber stamp collection!) you can understand why I thought it would be a great book to purchase. The book ranges from easy and simple designs to more complex ones for experienced card makers. In the first section of the book, you are shown the range of products used in creating the card designs, the various types of inks used are explained, what tools have been used and also telling you about the wide of papers and card products available for card making and how/when you would use them.