Product Description

Polly Pinder shows how easy it is to create a variety of innovative greetings cards using simple card templates and thread. Flowers, cats, butterflies, heart patterns and more can all be used to make wonderful designs which can be embellished with beads, stamped designs, craft stickers, and metallic, variegated and silk threads. Just cut out the template, follow the pattern and wind colourful threads around the card shapes. It's fun and many different effects can be achieved easily. Complete beginners and experienced crafters will be inspired by Polly's innovative approach to card making.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271369 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

About the Author
Polly Pinder studied graphics at Leeds Art College. Her first job was with a Yorkshire newspaper, and she subsequently worked as a lecturer in graphic design at Wakefield District College. She has written and illustrated a number of books on a variety of other subjects including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when that book won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper book based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.