Pebble Pets features a unique collection of delightful rock animal designs that are packed with personality, making them the perfect desktop companion. The 30 loveable creatures are created with easy techniques including layering rocks with paper, molding details out of modeling clay and creating faux fur. Plus, cute accessory projects accompany the pets, including collars, bones, dishes and beds. The easy-to-follow techniques and clear step-by-step instructions combined with adorable photography make it hard to resist these newfound friends.

Full of fun, female characters from the Jolly Nation(TM) line, this guide includes 16 papers and step-by-step instructions to create remarkable 3-D greeting cards. Both cute and simple, these distinctive and popular cards are ideal for mothers and daughters with such designs as a prima ballerina and a shopping-bag laden city gal.

Rice takes a fresh look at this traditional craft, demonstrating how to creatively transform an environment using just a few simple materials. He offers complete instructions for more than 18 unique projects, ranging from a delicate vase resembling fine porcelain to a dining room table adorned with generations of family photos.

Whether you want to spruce up seen-better-days objects or add pizzazz to new ones, decoupage is a versatile technique that will make those transformations fun and easy. In Cutting-Edge Decoupage, a dozen designers put a spin on this classic craft, presenting thoroughly modern projects with plenty of style. Add retro glamour to a valise with a cityscape illustration, inspire a child to ask questions about time zones by covering a clock face with a map, lend interest to a lampshade with wrapping paper that has a playful motif, and much more. Giving any plain item a creative makeover is simple! Book jacket.

The latest entry in the popular In an Afternoon(R) series focuses on quick and easy techniques for paper mosaics-a simpler method than the tile and glass versions, but equally attractive. Written by highly regarded author Marie Browning, it's sure to become the next Afternoon success. Here is everything you need to get started: information on supplies and tools, including the different kinds of available paper, trimmers, backings, and coatings; how-to instructions on the basic techniques (cutting to size, assembling the pieces); numerous photographs; and projects-such as a Poker Box and Marbled Oval Tray-designed to build skills even as they inspire."A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club."

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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. Book jacket.

The Queen of Dcoupage brings the popular craft and her sense of style together to show not only how to create works of art, but how to display them. Dcoupage has been known for centuries as a wonderful way to transform the ordinary-from flea market finds to attic treasures-into extraordinary room accents.For years, bestselling author and craft expert Leslie Linsley has taken this craft and raised it to an art form, selling her one-of-a-kind pieces in stores such as Tiffany's and Henri Bendel. In LESLIE LINSLEY'SDCOUPAGE, the author gives inspiration as to items to be decorated-from boxes to large pieces of furniture-and demonstrates how to create a work of dcoupage. She then applies her highly acclaimed sense of style to show how to decorate with the finished projects, by giving her unique philosophy of why she uses a particular piece in a space and how she comes to the design. Lavishly illustrated with photography of her creations in beautiful settings, LESLIE LINSLEY'S DCOUPAGE is much more than a craft book-it is an inspired look at interior design with a craft touch.