The Best Papercrafts Crafts & Hobbies Books 2025

1. We Dare You : Scrapbook Challenges About Real Life

Scrapbookers are always looking for ways to push their art, and participating in challenges is one great way to do that. The most popular and inspiring challenges are the dares that the authors of this book post on their blog and on Two Peas in a Bucket. These dares explore more than just trendy new materials, they get to the heart of the participants with challenges that really make them thinkabout what makes them happy or proud or filled with regret. In this book, the authors will develop new dares (only a handful of the dares will have appeared before: two are the most compelling from online and six are online favorites that have been given new spins). Each dare will be answered by at least three of the twelve participating artists and will include a story behind the page so that readers can learn how the pages relate to the dare.

Paperback, F & W Pubns Inc, 2007, ISBN# 1599630133

2. Silhouette Style: Techniques and Template Sets for Papercut Projects

Silhouette Style: Techniques and Template Sets for Papercut Projects Format: Paperback Authors: Nanetta Banato ISBN10: 1440303185 Published: 2010-10-13

Discover the modern versatility of the classic silhouette. The bold lines and strong contrasts of the silhouette are no longer limited to flat, two-color portraits to be hung on the family room wall. In "Silhouette Style," silhouette designs take on color, dimension and the 21st Century. Nanetta Bananto teaches you to bring papercuts to life in more than 40 projects incorporating her beautiful, original designs. Create tea-light lanterns, gift boxes, cards, paper dolls and fashion accessories using papercut designs in themes such as sea life, animals, flowers and fashion. The book includes: Step-by-step instructions for 21 stylish projects and more than 20 variations easily created using the same techniques and designs Tips and techniques on how to cut designs either by hand or using an electronic die-cutting machine A CD-ROM containing all of the cutting design files needed to create the projects, plus bonus designs to expand your creative possibilities Pull out your scissors or electronic cutter and develop a passion for silhouettes as you create art, gifts, home decor and more To read the pdf files on the CD-ROM included in this book, you will need Adobe Acrobat. To read .eps files, you will need a software program such as Adobe Photoshop or CorelDRAW. You may need to convert .eps files to the correct format for your cutting machine, according to the machine manufacturer's instructions.

3. Soap : Making It, Enjoying It (Edition 2) (Paperback)

How to make beautiful gift soaps at home with instructions for coloring, scenting, molding, and carving. Selection of the "Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service." 140,000 copies in print.

How to make beautiful gift soaps at home with instructions for coloring, scenting, molding, and carving. Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. 140,000 copies in print.

4. The Big Book of Handmade Cards and Gift Wrap : Over 50 Step-By-Step Projects (Paperback)

With straightforward instruction perfect for beginners, and a wealth of different techniques to appeal to crafters at an advanced level, this exciting guide will capture the attention of every reader who likes to create.

The Big Book of Handmade Cards and Giftwrap: Over 50 Step-by-Step Projects

5. Fresh Ideas in Decoupage (Paperback)

Create stylish home accents with easy decoupage techniques!"Fresh Ideas in Decoupage" shows you how to create homemade decorative accessories that are infused with your personal style. Each project illustrates how to add layered and textured detail to everything from terra cotta pots and galvanized tin vases to wooden boxes and even the walls in your home.You'll learn simple yet sophisticated techniques, such as how to: Create elegant finished pieces with layered paint, wax, plaster, stain and inkAge paper, ribbons and pictures to create a vintage lookBlend torn-out images into backgrounds, and other decoupage tricksApply and blend paint to add natural color and sparkleAdd visual interest by applying hot beeswaxYou'll turn your home into a showroom with over 25 original step-by-step and variation projects. Get started now - surround yourself with beauty and feed your creative need at the same time!

Create stylish home accents with easy decoupage techniques!Fresh Ideas in Decoupage shows you how to create homemade decorative accessories that are infused with your personal style. Each project illustrates how to add layered and textured detail to everything from terra cotta pots and galvanized tin vases to wooden boxes and even the walls in your home.You'll learn simple yet sophisticated techniques, such as how to:Create elegant finished pieces with layered paint, wax, plaster, stain and inkAge paper, ribbons and pictures to create a vintage lookBlend torn-out images into backgrounds, and other decoupage tricksApply and blend paint to add natural color and sparkleAdd visual interest by applying hot beeswaxYou'll turn your home into a showroom with over 25 original step-by-step and variation projects. Get started now - surround yourself with beauty and feed your creative need at the same time!

6. Get Real Greetings : Creating Cards for Your Sassiest Sentiments (Paperback)

Get Real Greetings offers more than 70 creative and humorous ways to convey your most unsentimental sentiments in sassy cards. Real women have real lives that arent tapped into through traditional thinking-of-you cards: they get speeding tickets, fail to impress their new bosses, get PMS (and then, later, have hot flashes), are subjected to wearing bad bridesmaid dresses for their friends, and dump and get dumped by boyfriends and husbands. The reader will get inspired to make cards featuring clever sentiments and fresh, contemporary card designs for literally every occasionespecially those that dont get their own sections in Hallmark. A basic techniques section, coupled with supplies lists and light instruction for each card, gives readers all they need to know to make their own Get Real Greetings. Forget sweet and sappy...Celebrate the ups and downs of real life with these sassy greeting cards. Did your best girlfriend get a speeding ticket, get dumped and get fired, all in the same week? Or did that lucky bitch just introduce you to her hot new boyfriend who just happens to be a masseuse? Too bad there are no sections in the greeting card aisles for those occasions!"Get Real Greetings" picks up where store-bought cards and traditional card-making books leave off. You'll find something here for all the non-occasions of everyday life - with cards covering everything from "The Usual Crap" to "The Joys of Womanhood" - as well as snarky new twists on more tried-and-true topics. Choose from 70+ fabulous card designs, plus dozens of bonus unsentimental sentiments to mix and match with your favorites. Simple instructions make it easy to create these fresh and funny cards whenever inspiration (in the form of a girlfriend's triumph or tragedy) strikes.Give your friends their just desserts - make them a Get Real greeting today!

Forget sweet and sappy...Celebrate the ups and downs of real life with these sassy greeting cards. Did your best girlfriend get a speeding ticket, get dumped and get fired, all in the same week? Or did that lucky bitch just introduce you to her hot new boyfriend who just happens to be a masseuse? Too bad there are no sections in the greeting card aisles for those occasions!Get Real Greetings picks up where store-bought cards and traditional card-making books leave off. You'll find something here for all the non-occasions of everyday life - with cards covering everything from "The Usual Crap" to "The Joys of Womanhood" - as well as snarky new twists on more tried-and-true topics. Choose from 70+ fabulous card designs, plus dozens of bonus unsentimental sentiments to mix and match with your favorites. Simple instructions make it easy to create these fresh and funny cards whenever inspiration (in the form of a girlfriend's triumph or tragedy) strikes.Give your friends their just desserts - make them a Get Real greeting today!

7. Delight in the Details

9781599630854

Delight in the Details

8. Collage Crafts Gone Wild : Mixed Media Projects and Techniques (Paperback)

Collage projects beyond your wildest dreams! Express your unique self in wonderful and fascinating ways--with Collage Crafts Gone Wild, you will take your art to a whole new level, experimenting with new techniques and combining materials and objects in more ways than you can imagine! With Collage Crafts Gone Wild: -You'll discover 24 fierce . Collage projects beyond your wildest dreams! Express your unique self in wonderful and fascinating ways--with Collage Crafts Gone Wild, you will take your art to a whole new level, experimenting with new techniques and combining materials and objects in more ways than you can imagine! With Collage Crafts Gone Wild: You'll discover 24 fierce step-by-step projects from 13 of your favorite North Light authors, including Kelly Rae Roberts, Traci Bautista and Josie Cirincione. You'll work with unique materials like foil, plaster, leather, and molding paste (to name just a few!) alongside everyday art supplies like paint, paper, stamps and fabric. You'll explore exciting new techniques for dyeing paper and fabric, transferring images to fabric and wood, and painting with beeswax. You'll create meaningful and personal masterpieces, including canvases, posters, jewelry, albums, mobiles, banners and more! So go ahead and go wild--add Collage Crafts Gone Wild to your artistic library today!

• ISBN:9781440328527 • Format:Paperback • Publication Date:2013-08-31

9. Handmade Photo Albums : Complete Instructions for Making 18 Fun and Creative Designs

Paperback, Quayside Pub Group, 2007, ISBN# 1589233476

Handmade Photo Albums: Complete Instructions for Making 18 Fun and Creative Designs, Porath, Tami

10. Contemporary Papier Mache : Colorful Sculpture, Jewelry, and Home Accessories

Contemporary Papier Mache: Colorful Sculpture, Jewelry, and Home Accessories

Over 20 diverse projects are included "Contemporary Papier Mache" is a colorful collection of papier mache projects by artist and teacher Gilat Nadivi. With an emphasis on recycling everyday items to create one-of-a-kind masterpieces, Nadivi instructs readers on how simple materials, basic techniques, and a healthy measure of imagination can be combined to make a range of distinctive creations. Projects described in the book are diverse; they include human figures engaged in everyday activities, animals that are tall, small and in between, home accessories such as picture frames, bowls and magnets, and more. Recycling is an inherent component of almost all papier mache, and "Contemporary Papier Mache" really takes this principle to heart. Old wires and hangers act as bases for human figures, empty rolls of tape become fashionable bangles, discarded water bottles are transformed into women's figures. After trying out a few projects in the book, readers will find their eyes open to the artistic potential waiting to be discovered in basements, garages, and recycling boxes. Tools for these projects are minimal, and supplies are easy to find. As for guidance and inspiration, readers will find plenty of both within the pages of "Contemporary Papier Macheﾬ." The book begins with a chapter on materials that describes the supplies readers will need for the projects. This includes basic materials such as papers, glues, work surfaces and paints, as well as fabrics and other decorative enhancements. It also includes suggestions about items that can be reused (and revived ) through papier mache. The techniques chapter describes various papier mache methods as well as painting and lacquer application.