Short description
Shows how to make Christmas cards and tree and table decorations in 18 projects with step-by-step pictures and easy to follow instructions. This title helps you make cards using sewing, embossing, glass painting and peel-off.
Long description
Judy Balchin and Polly Pinder show how to make Christmas cards and tree and table decorations in 18 simple projects with step-by-step pictures and easy to follow instructions.All the templates are supplied. Here is all the inspiration you need for this year's Christmas card list!From silk painting to beautiful wire and bead creations, this book has the festive season wrapped up. Make cards using sewing, embossing, glass painting and peel-off. Personalise your Christmas tree with attractive professional quality decorations from stocking garlands to gift boxes. Decorate the Christmas table with gorgeous candle shades, napkin rings, centrepieces, little gift boxes and bags made using beads and wire, sand, candles, thread and paper.Have a magical Christmas surrounded by your own creations!This title uses material from: Making Christmas Table Decorations by Polly Pinder, Making Christmas Tree Decorations by Judy Balchin, and Making Christmas Cards by Judy Balchin.
Review
myshelf.comThey say that it is never too early to start getting ready for Christmas, and even if it is it will arrive sooner than you think! Better be ready and lay in a book like this, filled with cards and ways of decorating the tree and table. This is not a new book, but a compendium of three earlier ones so if you already possess these you won't need this. But if you don'tA...I really like this book a whole lot. Anybody who can make a votive candle shade out of an old radiator cover salvaged from a skip gets my vote for being a green crafter, and there are also ways of using cheap glasses bought in a charity shop as well as all sorts of bit and pieces we crafters tend to hoard. The cardmaking section has ideas for most of the materials that have been around for some time, such as glass and silk paints, peeloffs, small boxes, metal foil and beads. The ideas are easily adaptable for other media and there are no gallery pieces, for all the templates are included. Similar things can be said about the two decorations sections where paper and card in its various forms gets put through its paces, and all sorts of unlikely items are pressed into service to make some stunning decorations such as fancy paper bags and galvanised buckets, small offcuts of anything gold and lots of wire. There are lots of ways of displaying candles, and of hanging small gifts on the tree to make them look more interesting and festive. If you are beginner, nothing is too hard to make (some ideas are suitable for children) and if you are not, there is still plenty of inspiring food for thought and new ways of using familiar items. This goes no further than my keeper shelf. Highly recommended.