Product Description

Experienced author Polly Pinder's new book shows you how to make beautiful oriental-themed cards. Starting with a section on materials and techniques, Polly shows you how to use various Eastern-inspired techniques and designs to make wonderful cards, taking in delicate glass painting, embossing and piercing, working with wires and beads and origami techniques.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #439900 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

Review
The oriental look is a growing trend in card making so be ahead of the crowd and get inspiration from this nifty little book. It's full of beautiful oriental projects, for all levels of expertise, so you can pick how challenging you want things to be! There's lots of useful step-by-step guides to illustrate the projects, plus templates at the back. We love that after each card, there's a fascinating bit of cultural trivia so you can impress your friends with your knowledge as well as your card making! --Papercraft Inspirations, Jan 08

Oriental influences are everywhere (we even had them on our cover cake in the May issue). This book shows you how to use glass painting, stickers, beads, embossing, origami, spirelli, punches and collage to create many delightful cards with an Eastern flavour. --Cake Craft & Decoration, July 08

Oriental influences are everywhere (we even had them on our cover cake in the May issue). This book shows you how to use glass painting, stickers, beads, embossing, origami, spirelli, punches and collage to create many delightful cards with an Eastern flavour. --Cake Craft & Decoration, July 08

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. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper ook based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.

Customer Reviews

Too many techniques can be a turn-off
I too was disappointed: here within 48 pages I found glass painting, paper piercing, origami, bead and wirework, a spiral threadwork technique, and finally, collage! I just don't have that much kit. The collage card was the one I first attempted, and the results were disappointing, compared with the results I usually get from the handmade greetings card series of books from Search Press.

I think it's a mistake to have put this in the Simple and Stunning series, because if you haven't attempted the majority of these techniques before, they would not be simple. A couple of these cards look as if they'd take me several hours to attempt alone, and I've been card-making for a year.

All in all, not for the fainthearted or the complete beginner.

Disappointing
This book only includes detailed instructions for making 6 cards and you need special materials, e.g. outline stickers and brass stencils of oriental themes, snowflake and flower craft punches and oriental paper. If you had these, you probably wouldn't need this book to give you ideas about what to do with them.

Another that disappoints
I hoped for much more from this one. I am a huge fan of all things Oriental, and hoped to see some stunning cards.There are some Oriental templates in the back of the book, but it only contained a couple of cards I liked the look of, and nothing that inspired me or sparked off any ideas. Another one I'd give a miss.