Craft the Perfect Frame: Transform Plain Frames with Papers, Paints, & Embellishments

by Carin Heiden Atkins

Craft the Perfect Frame presents 25 original projects to turn purchased frames into artistic decor accents and gifts. Crafters can create just the right settings for their favorite photographs, artwork, memorabilia, decorative objects, or scrapbook pages. Basic frames (plain, unfinished, shadow-box, or kit) and mattes are decorated with fabulous papers, specialty paints, and embellishments of all kinds. The step-by-step instructions and how-to photographs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589232097
• ISBN13: 9781589232099
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Quarry Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Elegant frames made from ordinary materials

Craft The Perfect Frame is a terrific book on creating your own Picture Frames. You just need an eye for craft paper and/or cloth that would go really well together and the book shows you how to put them together to create a really elegant picture frame. Add a little paint, ribbon or small bouquet of flowers for a little embellishment. I would recommend this book to all Crafters who want to create some really beautiful picture frames for your home or as a really special gift.

Buy It!

Carin Heiden-Atkins is one of the most innovative designers in the craft and home decor industries. Every single design in this book is beautifully designed around it's theme, and will motivate you to want to try it for yourself. Carin in an experienced author and designer (You may have read her columns in Create & Decorate magazine) and her directions are easy to follow. I wholeheartedly recommend this book for anyone looking for new and dynamic ways to display their photos and memorabilia.

From the Author - here's what you can expect from this book

As author of this book and columnist for Create and Decorate Magazine anyone who is familiar with my work knows they can expect atleast two things from me: great looking projects that are functional and fun to make and I tell it to you strait, meaning directions, information, and tips are easy to follow and understand. If you have never seen my work before here's a few things you can expect from this book. * 25 elegant projects that use a wide variety of premade frames and different materials from paint to paper and a lot of embellishments in between. * A variety of styles are represented from very simple to intricate. Modern, eclectic, whimsical, and elegant styles are well represented. * Uses materials you can find in any general craft store like a Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Jo Ann's. Most scrapbooking stores might carry these supplies as well. * Perfect for people who are interested in scrapbooking, paper crafting, general crafting, painting, fabric and/or ribbon addict, or people who want to test out their hidden creative abilities. * This book caters to a beginning/intermediate level. Advanced talents might enjoy the book as well, and could just as easily alter the projects for your own taste. I hope you enjoy the book! It's high time to get those favorite pictures out of albums and dusty cardboard boxes and put them up on the wall and enjoy them in an artful way. Creatively yours, Carin Heiden Atkins Author Craft the Perfect Frame Columnist Create and Decorate Magazine