From simple cut-outs to 3-D pop-ups, designing and making your own stunningly original cards has never been easier, or more enjoyable! Choose from 35 fabulous, fun and innovative projects, all covering a huge range of occasions, such as Christmas, birthdays, weddings and Valentine's Day. Learn quick and easy techniques from embossing and collage to copying on acetate, or add sparkle with diamante and jewellery wire.
Decorate Your Accessories and Customize Your Clothes with Paint, Dye, Bleach and Transfers
Funk It Up is packed with over 50 brilliant, easy and stylish ideas for personalizing your clothes - everything from stencilling, screen-printing or painting designs free-hand onto a simple top to decorating a pair of jeans with studs or transforming jumpers, T-shirts and jeans with dye or bleach. There is also a chapter on how to embellish your handbags, belts, hats and hair accessories. Whether you want to give a new lease of life to a tired-looking pair of jeans, update a classic jumper or jazz up a boring pencil skirt Funk It Up will show you how. Each project is clearly explained with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and specially commissioned photographs of the end result. It doesn't matter if you weren't top of the class in art, as there is an invaluable glossary of equipment and techniques which provides you with all the professional know-how you need to achieve expert results. This is a must for all fashion junkies!
Customize Your Clothes with Beading, Trimming, Applique and Embroidery
Glitz It Up is packed with over 50 brilliant, easy and stylish ideas for personalizing your clothes - everything from edging a skirt or top with sequins, beads, ribbon, feathers and velvet to decorating clothes with embroidery or applique. Whether you want to give a new lease of life to a tired-looking pair of jeans, update a classic cardigan or jazz up a boring pencil skirt, Glitz It Up will show you how. Each project is clearly explained with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and specially commissioned photographs of the end result. It doesn't matter if you weren't top of the class in needlework, as there is an invaluable glossary of sewing techniques and stitches, providing you with all the professional know-how you need to achieve expert results. This is a must for all fashion junkies.
