Craft Combo: 50 Nifty Collage Cards & Button! Button!

Get your group excited about crafting with projects ranging from contemporary chic to nostalgic and sweet!

50 Nifty Collage Cards

Cardmaking and collage go together like birthdays and cake! They’re both accessible crafts that allow great freedom of expression and provide a clever way to use those inevitable studio scraps and ephemera. That’s why Collage Cards is the perfect debut book in this brand-new beginner-friendly series on creative card crafting. It offers approximately 50 inspirational projects, with seven themed chapters that cover everything from focal points and photographs to embellishments, backgrounds, and inside treatments. Incorporate used dress patterns, with its tea-colored tissue paper and interesting arcs and arrows.

Evoke Paris with the lush flowers on French perfume labels. Go charmingly vintage, with old-fashioned children’s art. Tips, insights, and card variations show how even the simplest alterations can transform a layout.

Button! Button!

Whether they’re candy-colored plastic or retro-chic, buttons seem to go everywhere these days: delightfully decorating jewelry, embellishing home décor, and more. And anyone who knows how to use glue and do basic stitching and stringing can complete these 50 stylish, versatile projects with no problem at all. “Button up” a simple lampshade so that the light creates a fabulous graphic pattern of silhouettes. Craft a boutique-worthy brooch out of tiny vintage Bakelite bird buttons embroidered on felt ovals and set it in a sterling silver pre-made pin. The clean, contemporary photography that showcases the projects will appeal to today’s crafter—and amusing tidbits focus on such fun topics as button museums, the self-proclaimed Button King, and button lingo.

This collection of button-based craft activities will help you and your group make delightful projects ranging from basic to extravagant. Perfect for those who want to give a gift to a child or grandchild, or simply like to be surrounded by nifty things. We were particularly taken by the adorable button people, but you will find projects for everyone to fawn over in this beautiful book.