
Please feel free to browse on our varied special selections of arts and crafts books for young and old, novice and experienced...for each and everyone who loves to craft.
To help you create your own work of art, select the book that interests you the most....and with our matching supplies ...your next craft project ....will be a treasure to keep !
If you cannot find anywhere on this e-shop a specific book and/or magazine you are after, all you have to do is write to us and we will do our best to assist you !

Hip Handmade Memory Jewelry |
- Capture memories in cool jewelry.
- Beading, scrapbooking and a life filled with adventures and mementos
- shows how to transform them into necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and other accessories.
- Add your images and keepsakes to personalize each project and you're ready to make memory jewelry of your own.
$ 49.95 
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More Altered Books |

- Learn how to create dedication books, quotation book, travel memorabilia, altered book scrapbook and more.
- Design with tag art, ephemera, 3-D treasures, slide mounts, direct-to-paper, chalking, distressing, altering alphabets and more.
- A great gift to give where you can express your creativity without boundaries.
$ 27.50 
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Altered Books Workshop |

- Give books new life filled with creative expression.
- 18 creative techniques for self-expression and 65 variation ideas.
- Whether you're a beginning crafter or a fine artist, this book will give you comprehensive instructions and inspirations for creating multi-dimensional art that is a reflection of your moods, thoughts and life.
- Make your altered book the greatest story ever seen.
$ 45.50 
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Altered Books, Collaborative Journals & other Adventures in Bookmaking |

- Learn how to choose a book to alter, what you can do to its pages and cover, how to experiment with common household materials to create unique bindings.
- Discover ways to maximize visual impact through techniques such as cutting windows, extensions, inclusions, photo transfers, gelatin prints, computer manipulation and more.
$ 57.95 
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Art Tins |

- Stamp and paper crafters have discovered and worked their magic on the small tin wonders creating mini works of art.
-A variety of tin products in different shapes and sizes that are blank and ready for you to work your own magic, sizes perfect for weekend scrapbook projects and give as gifts to your favourite people.
-Large and small candy tins, click-clack tins, alterable metal business card cases, square CD and round tins, coin and coaster tins, rectangle tins...and more! Projects include Words of encouragement tin, a gift for the new mommy, party favour tins, moments tins, calendar moments, small collection albums...and more!
$ 22.50 
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Artist Trading Card Workshop |

- Create and swap mini works of art! Miniature works of art that are always traded and never sold. This book will not only teach you how to create your own cards, combining one or more of the more than 25 techniques demonstrated in step-by-step photos, it will also share the ins and outs of trading, finding and organizing card swaps and how totrade with others across the miles or even the continents.
- Discover ways to create colorful collage backgrounds, make cards from fabric, incorporate painting, stamping, phone book pages, tissue paper, string, stencils and much. Find creative ways to store the cards you will soon be collecting
$ 54.95 
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Pockets, Pullouts and Hiding Places
Interactive elements for Altered Books, Memory Art and Collage |

- Whether you enjoy paper art, handmade books, and collage or spend your time filling the pages of art journals and scrapbooks, this book is for you.
- Shows you how to create 27 three-dimensional and interactive "paper tools" that are useful and visually appealing additions to all types of artwork from books and art journals to greeting cards and scrapbook pages. Use them to conceal personal journaling, handwritten notes, a collection of quotes, special photographs and all types of ephemera and memorabilia.
- Page pocket, vellum pocket, accordion pullout, tag book pullout, secret enclosure hiding place, all-in-one hiding place, lock and key hiding place, rolled-up hiding place.....and so much more.
$ 49.50 
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Visual Chronicles |

- The no-fear guide to creating art journals, creative manifestos and altered books.
- Each chapter in this book quiets common fears such as "Nothing happens in my life" or "I'm just not artistic". Exercises offer instant ideas such as listening to the conversations you have with yourself or recognizing that meaningful ephemera is a part of each and everyday.
- Make creative journaling a part of your everyday life, busting through self-doubt, time clocks, piles of laundry and every other roadblock along the way.
$ 39.95 
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Ceiling Tiles Chic |

- Tips and techniques to paint, patina, shape, antique and decorate metail tiles. Ceiling tiles are made of very thin aluminium and can be easily painted, cut and shaped into decor pieces for your home. They are available in a plain aluminium or a rusted finish and have interesting embossing patterns.
- Includes getting started and preparing tiles for painting, supplies for tiles and project instructions. Projects include pockets, cut-outs, tin sponging, dry brushing, distressing, decoupaging, color washing and crackle finish. Also includes templates where applicable.
$ 27.50 
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Cigar Box Purses |

- Make your own cigarbox purses at craft store price. Inside this book you will find ideas and instructions to create 20 cigar box purses plus 10 sheets of vintage cigar box artwork (original art for 12 cigar boxes) to transform an ordinary wood box into a fahionable accessory.
- Includes instructions on preparing the box, how to attach handles and basic supplies.
$ 28.50 
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Distressables 1 |

- Terrific techniques and secrets to guide you on your creative journey featuring Tim Holtz signature line of distressable papers and doo-dad embellishments. Fabulous techniques for aging, distressing, layering, patinas, collage, soldering, transfers, folding, painting, scratching, glazing and more.
- Create your own terrific cards, jewelry, accessories, scrapbooks and more.
- Projects include elements of time (dimensional collage, trinkets of tin (laminating with mica), jewelry accents, brilliant bottlecaps, transparent illusion, memoirs under glass, creations on canvas, thinking outside the tag, accordion book....and more.
$ 29.50 
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Distressables 2 |

- Tim Holtz' next chapter of the creative journey. Tim Holtz Distressables 2. Learn new ways to alter your jewelry, scrapbook pages, cards and more with innovative techniques and projects. "Distressables 2" adds new dimension to layering with great new trinkets, coordinating collage and more of the punched, sanded, age and distressed items that you have come to expect.
- Projects include mini-stitched booklets, enameled collage tins, distress ruler bookz, words and windows, holiday moments,dimensional memories in small glass pendants, memory blocks, dimensional lettering, custom art tools, beeswax collage, custom accent jewelry.....and more.Contains terrific techniques and secrets to guide you on your creative journey.
- Includes tools to use, basics and basic techniques for creative success such as cutting, sanding,punching, inking, alcohol ink, layering, patinas and scoring and folding.
$ 29.50 
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Handy Cans |

- Recycle easy containers made with frozen juice cans. Sewing Lady, Gardening Angel, Momma and Baby, Snowman, Doggy and his Bone....and more !
- Includes general instructions on preparing cans, working with frozen juice cans, making holes in lids, patterns, working with felt and glue, making dresses and painting.
- Includes project templates where applicable.
$ 16.95 
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Instant Art |

- Images for collage and altered art. For tags, cards, paperweights, tins, jewelry, frames, ornaments, bottlecaps, trading cards, slide mailers....and more. Instant art pictures and/or images for endless possibilities.
- Use the images for projects such as glass-slide collage with wire and bead embellishments, paperweights, instant art transfer necklace, collage on folded note card, tin with inside lid collaged and.....more. Over 200 images in different shapes and sizes.
$ 27.50 
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Memory Boxes |

- 30 great projects with instructions for preserving special memories plus finishing and matting techniques. Just like scrapbooking, shadowboxes allow you to document important events, then display and share them. And unlike conventional scrapbooking, shadow boxes offer a way to display collectibles along with your photographs. A 3-dimensional scrapbooking.
- Includes basic techniques you will need to create attractive boxes and 30 creative ways to fill them. Create a family heirloom that will be enjoyed for
generations. Projects include basic boxes, matting the glass, creating shelves, creating windows and.... more.
$ 17.50 
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Too Cute Cans |

- Fun Flower Bucket, Baby Bunny, SnowBuddy, Panda Bear, Squeaky the mouse....and more!
- Includes general instructions on preparing cans, painting cans, transferring designs, painting faces, gluing and finishing.
- Includes project templates where applicable.
$ 19.95 
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Board Book Play |

- Whether you are a scrapbooker, quilted, painter, dollmaker, bead enthusiast or a complete beginner, you will love expanding your skills with over 50 new ideas.
- Learn exciting new techniques and create projects for every technique. Over 50 projects included and using familiar products and supplies in creative new ways.
- Complete step-by-step instructions with lots of photos. Use projects with every size and shape of board book plus cards, scrapbook pages and more.
$ 48.50 
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The Altered Book Scrapbook |

- Fun, creative and unusual. Make highly personalized volumes using existing books with a meaningful theme or appearance. Use traditional techniques such as painting, stamping,stickering and needlework on pages that have already type and illustrations.
- Includes projects with different themes from vacation to everyday moments. Also includes instructions for several techniques like creating windows and making pockets.
- Create your own one-of-a-kind heirlooms to treasure.
$ 44.95 
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Books Unbound |

- 20 Innovative bookmaking projects. Create handmade books like you have never seen before. Using simple bookbinding techniques, you can turn an ordinary book into a handmade sculptural masterpiece. Step-by-step through 20 innovative projects including travel journals, modular books, wired books and books within boxes.
- Also includes project templates that make book construction a snap, expert advise and valuable tips on bookmaking tools, materials and techniques, imaginative variations to give each project a unique twist. Features inserts, flaps, pockets and secret compartments.
$ 44.50 
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Handmade Books |

- Learn the art of BookMaking. This book provides essential guidance with clear step-by-step instructions for creating a variety of books, pamphlets, albums, journals and diaries. Using plain or decorated paper, learn how to produce beautiful handmade books to serve as gifts or for your own personal use. Techniques and materials accessible to everyone from an experimenting notice to a well-seasoned professional.
- Divided into 2 sections : the first takes you through all the necessary materials and basic techniques from accordion folds to Japanese stitching with galleries of samples to inspire your imagination. The second section is filled with 10 unique projects that use the techniques developed earlier in the pages and include jazzed-up old favorites such as a scrapbook and a diary as well as uniusal forms like theatre and star-shaped books.
$ 54.50 
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Altered Books Simplified |
- Develop your own unique style. Create your very own book using familiar products from your local craft store.
- Includes basics of a book, which books to alter and where to find these alterable books. Tips and techniques on removing and adding pages, holding it together, windows and niches, backgrounds, covers, expressions, sources of images, elements for the inside.
$ 17.50 
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Let's Play Cards |

- How to turn playing cards into art. 55 Artists Trading Cards, Greeting Cards, Journals, Boxes, Frames and Albums. Artists trading cards are little works of art that you can make and trade with others and you do not have to be an artist to make one.
- Each project has an instruction and sources of supplies used for some. Several images can be found at the back pages of the book which you can use and your imagination to make your own unique cards.
$ 32.50 
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Creative Collage |

- Over 40 inspiring projects for paper crafting. Let the projects in this book inspire you to begin your own journey.
- Includes discussions on the basics of collage, preparing surfaces, preparing papers and prints, adhering designs, sealing projects, how to add dimensions and embellishments. More than 40 great ideas for altered books, cigar box, purses, paper mache, tags, journals and more. journals, modular books, wired books and books within boxes.
- Projects includes kitchen comforts, feathered treasures, garden of flowers, cocktail trays, altered recipe books, accordion cards, journals, all-occasion tags and more.
$ 19.95 
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Jingle Bells |

- Turn simple jingle bells into personalized ornaments and necklaces. An inexpensive fun for all ages.Create a unique gift to give to someone for yourself. Quick and clever bells are yours in a jingle. Includes basic tips and instructions on how to clean bell, prepare and transfer patterns, paint and finish.
- Projects include teacher with apples bell, cat bell, pumpkin bell, flying angel bell, peace,joy and love bell, bunny bells and...more.
$ 11.50 
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Can-Do Crafting |

- 32 cute creations from beverage and food cans. Using leftover craft trims and some paint, transform crushed soda cans into oh-so-cute character accents for wreaths, plants and holiday trees.
- Turn fabric scraps and recycled postcards into cocoa canisters and salt boxes into personalized holders for loose change. Decorate coffee cans and punch holes in the sides to create luminaries, fill with goodies to give away or add a wire hanger to make an easter basket.
- Projects includes surprise birthday cans, rainy day bank, school day gifts, gist cans, holiday canisters...and more. Patterns included in book for the projects.
$ 17.95 
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 Shrinky Dinks |

- Shrinkable plastic shrinks to 1/3 its original size. Quick , easy and no mess. 190+ designs to make into projects for parties and everyday fun. 20 terrific ways to use your charms. Copy designs onto shrinkable plastics and color with colored pencils.
- Includes black and white patterns and coloring suggestions for the black and white patterns. Design for schools, sports, holidays, birthday parties and more. Make and trade charms with your friends.
$ 32.50 
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