A Main Selection for Crafter's Choice Book Club Elegant, artistic, inspiring, magical---all terms used to describe Magenta, a unique company in Quebec, Canada, whose glorious papercrafting products and work are sought after and admired by papercrafters. An inspiring combination of inventive ideas, tips, and techniques on creating memorable projects, offering more than fifty imaginative scrapbook pages, album covers, cards, invitations, stationery, picture frames, Christmas tree ornaments, decorative boxes, all with distinctive treatment---Magenta Style: lavish, rich color, texture, and embellishments. Each main project offers a technique and variations---a change in the color palette, or a different composition using the same materials or techniques, or a smaller type of project (card vs. frame or album cover) using the same materials or techniques. Learn the 'Magenta' way to use rubber stamps, stickers, sumptuous embellishments, colored pencils, inks, or decorative paper and how to get the most from a variety of materials, even how to adapt the projects to use materials from other sources. Known for their meticulous attention to detail and imaginative projects, this is first book to showcase the unique and always elegant Magenta Style Paper Magic.

Magenta Style Paper Magic: Ideas and Techniques for Stunning Albums, Cards, Gift Wrap, Home Decor, and More

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Carola, Leslie Conron

Metivier, Nathalie

Crafts & Hobbies

St. Martin's: Griffin

Just what is it about Magenta projects? What makes them so ditinctive? There is certainly color galore, texture that you can "feel," and embellishments aplenty. Whatever the style, Magenta projects are built around simple, classic compositions. A card may be straightforward and symmetrical, the design centered on the page, or that same symmetric design may be shifted off-center to create an intriguing pattern. But there is always an unmistakable focal point that, with the addition of rich color and stunning embellishments, results in a grand surprise that delights the senses. This is the essence of Magenta, and the reason why Magenta materials and techniques are favored by paper crafters all over the world. Magenta Style Paper Enchantments presents more than 70 projects that will inspire you to play with color, texture, and embellishments. 20 main projects offering various techniques are accompanied by a materials list and photographic step-by-step instructions, and the others appear in gallery sections in each of the 4 chapters. Techniques include rubber stamping and coloring with a variety of media; embossing and debossing with ink; creating texture with Peel Off's stickers; making three-dimensional constructions; and decorating holiday ornaments and other tabletop items. Try the projects as they are. Then change the palette, shift the focal point, play with the details, find the art of the craft--Magenta Style.

Magenta Style Paper Enchantments: Create Charming Cards, Boxes, Ornaments, Albums, and More

"Stickers are great communicators," says Mrs. Grossman. "They say things without words." No longer just for kids, stickers are a great new art form—just like scrapbooking or quilting. Want to refresh your child’s lunch box, dress up your telephone list, make a picture frame, or create exquisite invitations? Sticker art is the answer. You can find all these projects and much more in Mrs. Grossman’s Sticker Magic. Start with simple two-sticker combinations and work your way to advanced compositions. Learn to create scenes using basic design principles. Create dramatic and exciting three-dimensional artwork by raising ("popping") stickers with foam mounting tape. From the rolls of simple red heart stickers to the textured, color-coordinated products offered today, Mrs. Grossman’s Paper Company—the largest designer and manufacturer of decorative stickers in the country—has led the way. Included is a pocket with a sheet of Mrs. Grossman’s stickers, selected exclusively for this book.

Mrs. Grossman's Sticker Magic

Grossman, Andrea

Universe

The glorious legacy of Irish art and literature has survived centuries of foreign invasion, famine, and civil war to offer a rich portrait of a proud and complex country and her people. Beginning with the ancient Celtic sagas preserved for centuries in an oral tradition, to the recording of these pagan epics and the Christian gospels by early Christian scribes in some of the most magnificent illuminated manuscripts of all time, the legacy continues down to the Dublin of James Joyce and the Belfast of Seamus Heaney. Literature in the finest tradition has long been acknowledged as one of Ireland's most precious gifts, but less well known is the extraordinary depth and beauty of Irish visual art. The Irish: A Treasury of Art and Literature, is a lavishly illustrated overview of Irish culture. It reveals the breadth of the Irish experience through selected texts and images that mark momentous developments in art, religion, politics, and everyday life. The selections evoke the tone and texture of Irish life from the pagan legends, the flowering of Christianity, and the "golden age" of Ireland, to the terror of the early invasions, the brutality of the conflicts which clouded the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the massive emigration following the great famine of the nineteenth century, the Celtic Revival of the arts in the early twentieth century which drew much of its inspiration from the landscapes of the past, to the continuing struggles in Northern Ireland today. The carefully chosen texts of stories, plays, poetry, essays, letters, and political documents combine with images of ancient sites, precious objects (both religious and secular), illuminated manuscripts, paintings, drawings, and prints to convey the passion, eloquence, and diversity of Irish cultural history. Storytelling provided escape from a harsh existence into the unseen world of the imagination and spirit. Ireland's oral tradition achieved the highest levels of art, and the Irish storyteller has been revered from earliest times. The writers of the Celtic Revival inspired a renewed interest in Gaelic language and traditions, and introduced us to the world of magic, fairies, and "pisherogues" - visitors from another world. Included in this book are selections by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Douglas Hyde (the first president of Ireland) and others who translated and transcribed stories from the Gaelic and wrote new works based on the old legends and traditions. Also included are excerpts from myths and legends of pagan Celtic folklore and early Christian writers such as St. Patrick and St. Brendan. The works of Irish literary giants are featured in selections by Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, and James Joyce, as well as works from the modern era by Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, John Montague and others. A special section is devoted to the stories of the immigrant Irish in the United States. The more than 200 illustrations provide an historical perspective of the many facets of Irish art, from the magnificent metalwork of ancient times, embodied in gold jewelry, book shrines, and religious artifacts such as the Ardagh Chalice; to the thriving contemporary crafts of silver, crystal, fabric, and stained glass. Paintings from many periods depict the mysterious island beauty that is the creative wellspring for Irish artists and writers.

The Irish: A Treasury of Art and Literature

History

Europe

Hugh Lauter Levin Assc

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