Flower Cards to Make & Treasure

Issue 76

Six experienced craft authors guide you through a rich variety of styles and techniques involving floral cards. The project examples are stunning, with clear and concise step-by-step photos, templates and simple instructions, meaning that you too can achieve the stunning results within the pages. Techniques including paper piercing, spirelli and silk ribbon embroidery are covered, with 16 beautiful projects to inspire you.

Dec 10

Flowers are always popular subjects for cards, and here is a book filled with projects on how to make floral cards. Compiled from all the floral projects found in seven earlier card-makingcardmaking books, you are sure to find something suitable for all flower lovers in here.

If you want ideas for men's cards look elsewhere; here is a wonderfully girly mixture of projects using a variety of different popular (and less well known) materials and methods. Pierce holes, stitch, do paper tole, rubber stamp, use silk ribbon, and work with glass paints and more. There are flower fairies, Victorian cards, oriental-inspired subjects and art nouveau as well as simple studies of individual garden favorites. Projects are all staged with easy to follow instructions, photographs of the work in progress and templates for the main idea as well as other possible similar cards on the same theme. Most of the cards can be made using the usual card-makingcardmaking materials that all crafters have to hand, but there are some templates that might prove tricky to source in these days of die cutters and pyramage. If you are a silk ribbon embroidery tyro then I would advise getting one of Ann Cox's excellent beginners books first. The projects in the latter section of this book are not for those who have never done this sort of work before and it is not a papercraft, so maybe does not truly belong in the same place as the rubber stamp, pricking tool and chalk set. The cards are lovely however, and of course are floral so seeing them may well prove an incentive to take up a new hobby. All in all, a lovely book that will appeal to a variety of levels of card makers.

Dec 10/Jan 11

A compilation of six experienced craft authors' experiences and ideas, Flower Cards to Make and Treasure oozes valuable inspiration. Each design is broken down into simple steps to show the reader how to simply create effective flower-themed cards, using a rich variety of styles and techniques. The wide variation of skills used means that the book is accessible to crafters with ranging abilities, and hence has a wide audience. In total there are 15 projects and along with easy to follow instructions, the book presents clear photogaphs and templates for ease of use.

Issue 76

Six experienced craft authors guide you through a rich variety of styles and techniques involving floral cards. The project examples are stunning, with clear and concise step-by-step photos, templates and simple instructions, meaning that you too can achieve the stunning results within the pages. Techniques including paper piercing, spirelli and silk ribbon embroidery are covered, with 16 beautiful projects to inspire you.

Oct 10

Another packed book in the ideas 'to make and treasure' series, this book includes card ideas previously feature in other titles from Search Press. But with so many great ideas and clear photography, it's great to see such a wide variety of techniques and styles brought together in one useful place. Floral fans will love the projects - something to make and send to everyone! - with 16 cards illustrated by step-by-step instructions and with templates, plus more ideas in the galleries. Techniques include quilling, paper piercing, stamping and ribbon threading.