METAL
& WIRE GREETINGS CARDS By Julie Hickey Search Press - July 2002 ISBN: 1903975018 - PB How-To Books / Making Greetings Cards Reviewed by Rachel A Hyde, MyShelf.com Buy a US || This
is one in the brand-new Handmade Greetings Card Series from Search Press and is
a slim but lushly illustrated book of the type that has the crafty reader reaching
for their tools. It is a fine introduction to the craft and has a number of simple
but effective projects complete with staged photographs and copiable patterns
and ideas for more. At the beginning of the book there is a section on what tools
you need and here the author has gone a little over the top. As a keen maker of
this type of card myself I know that many stunning cards can be created with just
some plain sheets of metal, an embossing tool, pliers and wire. In my opinion
too much space is devoted to the single technique of heating copper sheets with
a heat gun and making them change colour which is a lovely aspect of the craft
but is perhaps more for the end of the book in the section for more advanced readers
and the same can be said of the use of a small anvil and hammer for flattening
the wire. |
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