Bookcraft Books
   Includes altered books, handmade books, journals and scrapbooking

The authors demonstrate a variety of methods for making over books, including ageing the papers, cutting out windows and niches, folding pages and covering old text with collage. With the techniques featured, you can turn old copies of books into beautiful, expressive books.

This book covers a variety of projects and techniques and is sure to inspire. The authors outline materials used, and supply information and instructions on projects including: book cover art, inside the cover, using paint on pages, collage pages, pocket pages, tiles and mosaics, windows, niches, doors, and more.

This book contains ideas and projects using materials and techniques such as sponging, monoprint stamping, paste paper, glazing, Pearl Ex, Piñata inks, gilding, crackling, tag art, punching and more.

This fantastic book covers it all! Discover creative ideas for slide mounts, how to use glass nuggets, trinkets, charms, stitch on paper, make button collages, layer, use paper doilies, age and colour paper, how to make shadow boxes, colour wire, emboss metal, make your own tags and cut dimensional niches. Get mini art lessons from talented artists as they share their secrets of how to use colour effectively, where to start, how to add texture and how to strategically place photos on a page and in frames. There's valuable tips about collecting and preserving treasures and more! Step-by-step photo instructions, detailed information, and easy-to-follow instructions will jump-start your creativity!

Everything you need to know to make beautiful and unusual books, journals, albums - and you can do it in a weekend.

More than 20 fabulous projects, each shown with step-by-step instructions and photographs, plus dozens of inspiring ideas.

Make your scrapbook pages come alive using embellishment techniques from the masters. In this book you'll find tips and techniques using the latest products. Through dozens of diverse examples, covering a variety of themes, you'll learn how to create 150 sensational scrapbook pages using:

• fabric, ribbons, lace, yarn
• pressed flowers, raffia, leaves
• metallic wire, zipper, mesh
• tags, folding, punch, quilling
• baubles, beads, buttons, glitter.