Quick & Clever Christmas Cards: 100 Fast And Festive Cards And Tags

by Elizabeth Moad

*Cardmaking is a hot topic, with over 82,000 copies of Quick & Clever Instant Cards sold to date *Includes a gallery of super-quick projects for the overwhelmed and busy Christmas shopper Sixty incredible card designs and twenty stunning tag projects make up this collection of easy-to-create Christmas greetings. Simple, step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs enable even beginners to create professional and impressive results in no time. A variety of techniques--including using peel offs, felt sequins, glitter, and ribbons, and implementing sponging, quilting, and rubber stamping--gives readers great projects for the holidays and a wealth of ideas to draw upon all year round.

Genres: Crafts

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Elizabeth Moad is a busy papercrafter, workshop tutor and author. Elizabeth is accomplished in many crafting techniques but is widely known for her talent in quilling. She is a regular contributor to UK magazines Crafts Beautiful and Let’s Make Cards! Elizabeth has written six craft books.

Reviews

[Eleclyah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick & Clever Christmas Cards contiene moltissime splendide idee per creare biglietti d'auguri natalizi ed etichette per i doni.
Nonostante le sole 128 pagine, il manuale presenta una enorme varietà di stili tra cui scegliere, così che si possono trovare biglietti adatti per i più piccoli come per le persone più raffinate.
Ogni capitolo contiene la spiegazione passo passo per la creazione di un biglietto, corredata di foto che illustrano visivamente i passaggi; sono poi presentate due variazioni del biglietto stesso, e un'etichetta coordinata con cui accompagnare i regali.
Le ultime pagine contengono una galleria di creazioni che richiedono pochissimo tempo, per chi si è preso all'ultimo minuto (a chi non succede, sotto Natale?) e vuole comunque fare un figurone.

Un manuale consigliatissimo!

[Donna · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was a little disappointed by this. Thankfully it was a gift b/c I woulda been pretty pist to spend $20+ on it.

Like most things of this ilk it gives you 1 page of "basic" supplies then it quickly evolves into having to have 4 pages of "beyond the basics". I lost count of how many rubber stamps & stamping pads they used to complete the looks.

It gave me some good ideas but I have a feeling I'm going to be limited since I refuse to invest in the specialty items this calls for.

For anyone else who already has this stuff or has the compulsion to clutter their space up , go for it. Otherwise, get the book from the library & try to eke out a few basic techniques.

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

color pictures and directions. Most card patterns were very simple and not very creative. Like stamp picture and color it in, or cut out photocopy and glue on card. :(