: The Complete Iris Folding Compendium
This complete guide offers color project photos with clear instructions and templates. Learn the simple technique of iris folding to create beautiful spiraling patterns that can be used to embellish cards.

This useful handbook provides all the techniques you need to create beautiful silk ribbon embroideries. Using just three basic stitches and gathering techniques, learn how to stitch over thirty-five different flowers, including roses, geraniums, irises, pansies, sweet peas and more. Over fifteen more detailed projects will take your skills even further, all with templates and full instructions provided.

Four experienced papercrafters show you everything you need to make your own quilled characters, wild flowers, and motifs.
This book is a comprehensive source of innovative ideas and each of the many projects is accompanied by full step-by-step techniques. Start with clear explanations of basic quilling techniques and build up to make everything from chocolate drops to angels! Over twenty-five detailed projects in all!

In this fun addition to the successful Twenty to Make series, Kate Haxell shows how to make twenty gorgeous flower designs in a range of stunning fabrics and finishes. Perfect sewing projects to adorn the home, clothes and accessories, these flower designs are also fabulous for parties or weddings, or simply displayed in a vase. The projects can be made into corsages and brooches, sewn on to bags, cushions, scarves and cardigans, or glued to Alice bands and shoes. Full sewing patterns/templates are included, as are full instructions for each flower project.

This book shows you how to make a scrumptious selection of cake pops. These cute little cakes on sticks are perfect for celebrations such as weddings; birthdays; Halloween; New Year and more. This book contains twenty irresistibly delicious projects with detailed pictures and instructions.

: Techniques and Tips for Creating Beautiful Cakes

(New Holland Professional)

Easy to follow and detailed instructions ensure anyone can get a great result. Kids love the cakes!

: Wrapped, Coiled and Woven Pieces Using Fine Materials

This book is filled with creative ideas.
It contains a brief review of the basics in the beginning with great pictures of clasps, earwires, tools, etc.
Many of the projects contain wire wrapped with wire.

Leather is a strong and versatile material, which is highly suitable for handicrafts.
Anyone can learn the techniques of leatherworking, and with some basic tools and a little patience can produce articles that are both aesthetically pleasing and practical.
This book offers advice on selection of tools and different types of leather; step-by-step instruction on the techniques of cutting, bevelling, burnishing, hand-stitching, carving, stamping, and thronging; tips on how to avoid common pitfalls; and a range of interesting projects.
This is a good beginner book. It is NOT a complete text, but has good information and presentation. It covers the basics, and for that it is a good book.

More than 250 inspirational and diverse baby scrapbook page ideas featuring newborn photos, action photos, baby with family photos and black & white photos. Includes helpful hints, ideas for setting up a photo studio and how to preserve memorabilia.

This is s cute book and has lots of good ideas for layouts.
The layouts are really good, and great ideas.
(There is little info on HOW to get the look.)

The majority of today's scrapbookers already use their computers to type journaling blocks and print digital photos. This book teaches readers how to use software programs they probably already own to create exciting digital elements for their traditional pages.

Includes a Bonus CD featuring digital kits and fonts exclusive to this product.

Although most scrapbookers are drawn to the tactile nature of the craft, scrapbookers do use their computers to journal, write titles and print photos. This book instructs readers how to use their computer programs to their fullest potential to produce digital elements, and then combine these digital elements with the actual papers, fibers and embellishments they love. Step-by-step instructions and screen captures provide the how-to for creating simple digital elements with Microsoft Word and Office Publisher and Photoshop Elements in a way that is as fun and creative as using scissors and glue. Over 100 finished pieces of artwork provide the inspiration for incorporating digital elements into traditional scrapbook layouts, greeting cards and more; callouts on these pieces of art will indicate which elements are digital and which are traditional. The CD of digital kits allows readers to create layouts using many of the same elements featured in the book's artwork.

Scrapbook memories from preschool to high school with a variety of fresh styles and varying levels. Includes paper crafting projects like flash cards, growth chart, locker bulletin board, report card file folder and embellished notebooks. Illustrated instructions for creative techniques include tips and tricks for memorabilia and journaling.

The author teaches you all you need to know, from how to create the cake balls - a mouth-watering mixture of chocolate cake and icing - to dipping the cake balls in the special candy coating.
Then she explains her unique method of painting the POPs using cocoa butter.
There is one easy, delicious recipe and 25 beautiful and fun designs.
She also introduces you to her special layer cakes, which are embellished with classic flower cake POPs.
With clear, step-by-step photography and her easy-to-follow instructions, cake POPs are incredibly fun and easy to bake and make.
Both children and adults will adore these bitesize delights that are perfect for parties and special occasions.

You will find many cute cake pops in this book.
In addition, you will be pleasantly surprised to find a few cake recipes and party props (pompoms, paper roses and piñatas to name a few).
This is just a fun book and you will be excited to try some of the pops out.
If you enjoy baking and parties you will get a kick out of this book.

: Fast, Fun, and Fabulous Fabric Handballs!
The elegant and easy Japanese craft of kimekomi—making fabric handballs—is presented in this collection of 15 bright and colorful designs.
Featuring full-size cutting templates, each design is accompanied by color step-by-step drawings, sensational photos, and easy-to-follow text.
Although each project requires additional materials—such as a Styrofoam ball, a variety of colored fabric scraps, glue, and pretty ribbons or cords for embellishment—the fun, simple process assures that the first ball will be complete in just a couple of hours.
Once the basics have been covered, a special section on creating and customizing new designs will allow crafters to branch out on their own to create ornaments and gifts for all occasions.

Lesson Plan for Wilton's Flowers and Cake Design course. In this course, you will explore more sophisticated ways to bring your cakes and desserts to life! You will create breathtaking icing flowers such as Pansies, Lilies and the famous Wilton Rose. Then you will discover the secrets of arranging them in a beautifully balanced cake top bouquet. Your amazing flowers will be framed by an impressive border treatment or basket weave design. With the skills you learn here and your ability to make flowers in advance using gum paste and fondant or royal icing, you can create beautiful blooms at your convenience, ready to place on any cake.

You'll find pirates, princesses, fish, flamingos, and even pops for adult parties and holidays are covered. Includes a mini catalogue with photos of Wilton® products,and their item numbers, used to make cake, cookie, and candy pops. 112 pages in a soft cover.

With this book you will learn how to handle, cut, and tint fondant and gum paste, cover a cake and board with fondant, and add effects such as ribbon garlands, rope, ruffle and ball borders, geometric designs, etc.
In addition, you can create a variety of gum paste flowers, including droses, carnatoins, lilies, and more.

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Let's make pretty small motif using embroidery thread.

This Book explains how to make accessories using transparent clay.

CHRISTI FRIESEN Projects, techniques and ideas!