Folded Book Art: 35 Beautiful Projects to Transform Your Books-Create Cards, Display Scenes, Decorations, Gifts, and More

Description

Create a fantastic world of delight with these 35 inspiring projects - all made from old books! Follow Clare Youngs' simple step-by-step projects to make a huge variety of creative book art projects. In the first chapter, Folding Books, get folding and make a beautiful bird, a sailor's knot and a shining star, they look impressive but are deceptively simple to make. In Chapter 2, Making Scenes, you will learn how to cut and glue splendid scenes such as tiny paper mushrooms and ferns under a glass bell jar, a fairytale castle and a tiger in the jungle, all of which would make great gifts, or just keep and display them all yourself! Chapter 3, Refashioned Pages, has ideas for transforming the pages cut from books - make greeting cards, a botanical print lampshade and hanging birds. All the projects have helpful step-by-step instructions and illustrations so all you need are a few old books and you are ready to start!

Clare Youngs studied graphic design and has worked in packaging design, illustration and book jacket design. Her other books include Book Art, Mobile Art, Wall Art, Make Your Own Woodland Creatures, A Year in Crafts, Letter Art and Folk Art Needlecraft (all published by CICO Books). She is based in Broadstairs, Kent.