Creative Crafting With Recycled Greeting Cards

by Catherine Lawrence, Jean Lefler

"Lawrence...(uses greeting cards)...as raw material for making and decorating household items of all kinds....This book is crammed with projects, several to a page, with...color illustrations....the instructions are good, and the book is full of ideas for dealing with those accumulations of cards that are just too nice to throw away."-- "LJ . ."..often creates a new niche...more than 300 adaptations for old greeting cards. Both small areas and large items, from a fridge notepad to the sweet dreams chair, are covered with this modern-day version of decoupage. Ideas tumble one after another, explained in a how-to format resembling a recipe, with ingredients listed first...color photographs of finished projects...guide readers...A cachepot of craftables for anyone."-- "Booklist . 128 pages (all in color), 7 x 10.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Marian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book with many many ideas

[Kelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was a little disappointed. But still got some ideas that I probably won't use because I'll forget by the time I get the cards out...

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Picked this up at the library. A few ideas in here, but for me quite a lot on the tedious side. I like some lace and ribbon, but a little over the top on this element. the book was separated by monthly crafts using up the cards you get to recycle. I was looking for a more simple use and found you needed supplies for the ones I did like-above and beyond what I just had in the craft room. Also many of the projects did not grasp me for the month I was looking at. Maybe if I had got this before Christmas. I was hoping for February 14th, but was not impressed by the options. What I really liked about the book was the examples to be done for homemade cards which was a section at the beginning. I was very much inspired by these.