Book Description
Old notebooks, discarded postcards purchased from a flea market, sheaves of sheet music, yellowed newspapers with foreign language text: Anna Corba knows how to turn these vintage papers into fantastic contemporary fans, decorated glassware, party favors, and more. This up-and-coming designer presents her beautiful projects here, with detailed instructions, charming color photos, and tips to help imaginative crafters develop their own personal style. Her techniques for transforming the paper range from tea-dying to laying down a final layer of beeswax on a collage. Make collage bottles; embellish plain cardboard boxes with paint and vintage trading cards; or create decorative paper cones to hold flowers, small candy, or trinkets. With a sheet of paper, everything is possible.
Vintage Paper Crafts FROM THE PUBLISHER
Old notebooks, discarded postcards purchased from a flea market, sheaves of sheet music, yellowed newspapers with foreign language text: Sara Toliver knows how to turn these vintage papers into fantastic contemporary fans, decorated glassware, party favors, and more. This up-and-coming designer presents her beautiful projects here, with detailed instructions, charming color photos, and tips to help imaginative crafters develop their own personal style. Her techniques for transforming the paper range from tea-dying to laying down a final layer of beeswax on a collage. Make collage bottles; embellish plain cardboard boxes with paint and vintage trading cards; or create decorative paper cones to hold flowers, small candy or trinkets. With a sheet of paper, everything is possible!
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
The popularity of scrapbooking has sparked interest in related paper crafts such as paper collage. Collage, or pieced paper work, is an artful construction using inexpensive ephemeral paper items originally created for some other purpose. As with all crafts using recycled materials, there is some danger of ruining a genuine collector's item, so the use of color photocopies may sometimes be advisable. Bantock (Griffin & Sabine) presents his original creations-e.g., maps embellished with rubber stamps, altered photographs, and postage stamp collages-in individual chapters devoted to specific types of source material. These are for ideas only; there are no projects. Corba's book has over 30 step-by-step projects for household items embellished with paper found materials, including postcards, music, and vintage illustrations. Both books make clever use of common materials and are good selections for public libraries. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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