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This beautiful book by Joanna Sheen contains easy instructions, ideas and inspiration for making greetings cards based on paper lace products, including paper doilies, rubber-stamped lace designs, die-cut and laser-cut lace. Suitable for absolute beginners, it includes simple techniques, for example stamping, embossing and decoupage, and there are clear, step-by-step photographs to guide you through the six beautiful projects. With ideas for other designs accompanying each project, this book will not only develop your papercraft skills, but also help you create gorgeous cards of your own.

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Oct 08 Paper lace has been a decorative feature on cards since Victorian times, and anybody who has ever wanted to do something more with a doiley that putting cakes on top of it needs to see this. Paper lace comes in all types from doileys to laser cut shapes or lengths on rolls, not forgetting background papers depicting lace. This book shows you how to make beautiful greetings card with all these lacy things. The main focus of the book are all the beautiful items found on Joanna Sheen's website, particularly her gorgeous CD ROMs filled with lovely images, many of them Victorian. Add to that the background papers and rubber stamps, and you have all the ingredients to make some stunning cards, together with the paper lace. There are several projects in here, all staged with photographed steps for ease of construction as well as several other easy to make examples. Cards featuring vintage photos, Christmas bells (my own favorite), silhouettes and flowers recall the elegance of time past, but with some modern tweaks for contemporary appeal. Also featured in the book are staged instructions for mounting rubber stamps, making a gatefold card and using embossing powders. Anybody can appreciate these lovely cards, but as none of the projects are difficult this is a very suitable book for somebody new to the hobby. Myshelf.com

Myshelf.com:Paper lace has been a decorative feature on cards since Victorian times, and anybody who has ever wanted to do something more with a doiley that putting cakes on top of it needs to see this. Paper lace comes in all types from doileys to laser cut shapes or lengths on rolls, not forgetting background papers depicting lace. This book shows you how to make beautiful greetings card with all these lacy things.The main focus of the book are all the beautiful items found on Joanna Sheen's website, particularly her gorgeous CD ROMs filled with lovely images, many of them Victorian. Add to that the background papers and rubber stamps, and you have all the ingredients to make some stunning cards, together with the paper lace. There are several projects in here, all staged with photographed steps for ease of construction as well as several other easy to make examples. Cards featuring vintage photos, Christmas bells (my own favorite), silhouettes and flowers recall the elegance of time past, but with some modern tweaks for contemporary appeal. Also featured in the book are staged instructions for mounting rubber stamps, making a gatefold card and using embossing powders. Anybody can appreciate these lovely cards, but as none of the projects are difficult this is a very suitable book for somebody new to the hobby. This beautiful book contains easy instructions, ideas and inspiration for making greetings cards based on paper lace products including paper doilies, rubber-stamped lace designs, die-cut and laser-cut lace. Suitable for absolute beginners, it includes simple techniques, for example stamping, embossing and decoupage and there are clear step-by-step photographs to guide you through the six beautiful projects. With ideas for other designs accompanying each project, this book will not only develop your papercraft skills, but also help you create gorgeous cards of your own.-Machine Knitting Monthly

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Joanna Sheen's passion for crafts has been a life-long affair. She started Joanna Sheen Ltd in 1979 and has been immersed in various crafts ever since and has written over 30 books on various craft related topics. Joanna's first passion was for flowers, she trained with the world renowned Constance Spry Flower School in London. Having successfully run an international pressed flower business for 20 years, Joanna turned her focus to card making and has gradually progressed into her very popular vintage feel designs and products. Joanna is fascinated by the Victorian age, it's values and the charm of the immensely skilled craftsmanship that is so evident in all handmade treasures from that age. In her card making, Joanna tries to re-create the keepsake souvenir feel of many Victorian cards, which once you have made them for someone, you know will be treasured for ever. Today Joanna appears very regularly on TV on both Ideal World and the Create and Craft channels with new ideas, demonstrations and best selling products. Joanna has a very enthusiastic following who all share her love of timeless design, traditional skills and sentimental treasures.

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