Product Description

Paper craft and quilling expert Claire Sunok Choi offers 60 beautiful card designs that you can make yourself for every occasion: New Year's, anniversary, Mother's Day, Valentine's, Christmas as well as cards and invitations to celebrate weddings, birthdays, love, friendship and the seasons. Each project has detailed step-by-step instructions and photos to ensure complete success, using techniques including paper quilling, decorative cutting, piercing, embossing, folding, layering, weaving and more. The title includes timesaving shortcuts, tips for personalizing and photographs of the finished projects.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101609 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 98 pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent, inspirational book
It is maybe not the best book for an absolute beginner, as the instructions are not very detailed and there aren't lots of step-by-step pictures - you need to know the basics of how to use a craft knife and other techniques for cutting, folding, gluing, etc - but for anyone else, buy it! The designs are simple, stylish and effective - there isn't a card in the book that I wouldn't be delighted to receive and I'm looking forward to making them. They are all "grown-up" cards, not the rather amateurish, childish looking ones that so often appear in card books. Very few of them use embellishments other than ones made from paper, and you won't need a lot of tools either, just a few basic punches in many cases. I had never thought of cutting my own embossing stencils before, but I will certainly try after seeing the results in the book. I am even motivated to try quilling, the designs look so pretty and fresh. The author has a real eye for colour, and many of the cards are in pale, off-white shades that look incredibly sophisticated. Unlike many US books, there aren't lots of cards for festivals such as Hallowe'en and Passover, but there are a few Christmas cards as well as ones for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and plenty that are suitable for more general use. Flowers and butterflies are a recurrent theme, but you will find some cards that are less "female".

Fabulous card making book
This is a wonderful book - not a 'bad card' amongst them!! My one and only complaint is that there is no 'where to buy' page and despite spending hours on the net looking, I have not been able top track down pastel crinkly paper!!
Highly reccomended book if you want something slightly different!

What a beautiful book - I am inspired!
Well, I have a few cardmaking books now and I can honestly say, this book is really inspiring. Its beautiful pictures, well written instructions and ideas just sent me into overdrive and I made 20 cards yesterday!! Well worth the money!