Handmade Greeting Cards

by Maureen Crawford

Book Overview

Give your sentiments a personal touch, with a card you've made all by yourself. It will be treasured forever. "The variety of cards you'll find is extraordinary....Each project allows you an endless variety of colors, folds, cuts, decorations, and special effects."- Craft Digest . "Dozens of imaginative projects that can be produced with scissors, paste and colored paper. Some great ideas for the art teacher."- The Book Report .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806983272
• ISBN13: 9780806983271
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great ideas for art-like cards

Although I wouldn't recommend this book for everyone I think it has some great ideas for those who like artful cards. I have been doing art and making cards for a long time and this book has some great ideas for making cards that are small works of art. It has alot of tasteful card ideas (quite a few asian influenced ideas which I tend to like) as well as ideas for making papers and origami techniques. Many of the cards in the book would be nice as framed art. I have looked at quite a few books on making cards and this is one of my favorites. Although I don't think these cards are difficult to make, they do take more time and effort than making generic crafty cards, but for me it is worth the extra effort. When I give the cards to people they love them.

Surprisingly Good

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this book. The author introduced various techniques that were easy to reproduce (even for the childre I teach: from 3rd to 6th grade). The cards made, however, do not look simple or easy. I've made cards that ranged from whimsical to elegant using such techniques. A bonus is that you can learn to decorate plain paper rather than spending a lot of money buying the expensive specialty papers in craft supply stores. This book is truly inspirational. I had so many ideas (having made cards for a long time, I've become kind of dry) that I wanted to try out after reading this book!!