Finishing Touches With Paint Paper

This enchanting volume contains a rich fund of new ideas for the time-honored crafts of decoupage, paint effects, stenciling, paper cutouts, and paper mache. Finishing Touches With Paint & Paper gives clear, step-by-step instructions for more than 70 projects, ranging from trays, bowls and lampshades to mini-chests, shelves, and boxes of all shapes and sizes. 300 color illustrations.

Part of the Creating Your Home series. Filled with versatile, unique and easy-to-do design and decorating ideas that will add charm, color and character to any home. Contains step-by-step instructions and all the information needed to breathe fresh life into every room.

Krylon's state-of-the-art and easy-to-use spray paints and finishes are great tools for taking paper crafting from ho-hum to innovative. Use them to beautifully enhance scrapbook layouts, creatively alter books, expertly enhance cards and tags, and magnificently decorate home accessories. Every project will look unique! -- book jacket.

Let the wisdom and enchantment of timeless fables and fiction help you achieve your creative goals! From celebrated mixed-media artist and author of Create Your Life Book Tamara Laporte, Ever After is a rich collection of step-by-step mixed-media art lessons inspired by fairy tales, folk tales, and classic fiction. Based on one of Tamara’s popular series of online classes, Ever After addressesthe most frequently asked question she receives from her students: “How do I develop my own creative style?” In addition to the beautiful art lessons created especially for this book by Tamara and eight other noted mixed-media artists, each chapter offers creative exercises that invite readers to explore stories, their symbolism, and a specific aspect of style development as they work toward and ultimately achieve their artistic goals. The Story of You. Explore the experiences, feelings, and ideas that stir your passion, and how to adapt and change motifs and other visual elements to make them your own. Inspiration: How to Find It, How to Use It. Examine how to stay open to inspiration, incorporate it into your art practice, and integrate it into your artwork. Comfort Zones & Productivity. Learn strategies for working through your fear and dedicating time to your artmaking. Dealing with Challenges & Deepening Your Voice. Find guidance for starting a mindfulness practice to help you deal with harsh feedback, and for allowing yourself the joy of continually evolving your story, your message, and your style. Ever After will teach you to tell your own unique stories through artmaking so that your wish—to become the artist you’ve always wanted to be—is sure to come true! Guest Teachers Includes lessons and tips from these renowned mixed-media artists: Kara Bullock Lucy Chen Danita Andrea Gomoll Annie Hamman Mariëlle Stolp Effy Wild Micki Wilde Fairy Tales, Fables & Fiction Featured stories include: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Bambi Beauty & the Beast Goldilocks & the Three Bears Mulan Peter Pan Sleeping Beauty The Little Mermaid

Even if your home’s decor hasn’t changed since 1976, you can refresh, revamp, and revitalize it at the holidays with just a few simple strokes. Unlike regular decorating – where you agonize over paint colors, upholstery choices, and furniture styles – holiday decorating is easy. Holidays provide a set theme; a color palette; and merchandise and motifs that are usually mass-manufactured, so you can purchase and decorate when you’re ready. You may be feeling intimidated about decorating for the holidays, or you may be ready to dive right in. No matter what level of decorator you may be, Holiday Decorating For Dummies shows you tricks that you may not already know. This guide is for you if: You need easy, affordable ideas to fill your house with holiday cheer You have no idea where to start and just need some ideas to get you going. You already have a huge collection of your own holiday stash and need to get organized before acquiring more You love to celebrate very special occasions: an anniversary, a special birthday, a warm welcome home A flair for decorating isn’t necessarily inherited. Armed with clear explanations of how you can achieve beautiful yet practical holiday decorating, planning tips and tricks, crafting basics, care and cleaning tips, storage solutions, and more, you can decorate like a pro. Holiday Decorating For Dummies helps you gain that skill with topics such as: Discovering tabletop decorating basics Budgeting time, money, and space Getting organized Caring for your decorations Knowing where to go for ideas and inspiration Celebrating Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving Decorating for Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Jewish holidays Embellishing the exterior of your home Getting crafty with paper, florals, fabric, beads, and embossing Creating luminaries and etched-glass projects Part decorating guide, part stylist guide, and part craft instruction book, Holiday Decorating For Dummies helps you access the knowledge you need to create beautiful homes and great gatherings that will provide a warm welcome for family and friends.

**Finishing Touches Master the Art of Advanced Craft Finishing** Transform your craft projects from ordinary to extraordinary with "Finishing Touches," the ultimate guide to mastering advanced craft finishing techniques. This comprehensive eBook takes you on a journey through the final, yet crucial, steps that bring a professional and polished look to any craft. Begin your adventure with an insightful introduction to why finishing touches matter, accompanied by an overview of common techniques and a detailed list of essential tools and materials. Prepare your crafts with precision as you delve into surface preparation, priming, and expert sanding techniques designed to create the perfect foundation. Uncover the secrets of advanced painting, from achieving velvety smooth finishes to creative special effects and timeless distressing methods. Perfect your sewing projects with professional-grade seam finishes, hemming, and decorative stitches that stand out. Elevate your woodworking skills with expert staining, varnishing, and burnishing tips that leave wood pieces looking flawless. Dive into high-quality paper craft finishes, where edge inking, embossing, and glittering techniques add depth and texture. Understand the nuances of varnishes and lacquers, ensuring a glass-like finish every time. Learn how to breathe new life into metal crafts with polishing, patinas, and protective coatings. "Finishing Touches" also explores advanced techniques in glass and ceramic finishing, fabric crafting, and the versatile applications of resin. Enhance your projects further with professional beading and sequencing methods, creative layering with transfers and decoupage, and custom label designing for that personal touch. From jewelry making to safe craft practices, this guide covers it all. Dive into resources for further learning and connect with crafting communities to continue your journey. Unlock the full potential of your crafts with "Finishing Touches." Your projects deserve the best—and this book delivers. Transform your finishing techniques and bring unparalleled quality to every piece you create.

If you are interested in developing techniques for using Corel’s Painter, Advanced Painter Techniques is full of the author’s compelling digital paintings with instructions on how you too can create similar effects. You will gain an understanding of the method, reasons, techniques and thought processes behind each detailed image and how they can be adapted to suit your own artistic process. If you have been searching for a resource that contains advanced painter techniques and shows you the tools and the theories that drive their use, this book is your ultimate resource.

Fresh new ways to create fabulous paintings with mixed media techniques! Acrylic Solutions provides the "hows" behind a multitude of effects you've admired in other artists' works--and then some! Based on the popular online teaching collaboration of Chris Cozen and Julie Prichard, this book illustrates a wealth of layering methods and techniques. Mix and match to achieve countless variations, building layer upon layer to create unique and wonderfully complex abstract art. • Learn more than 30 step-by-step techniques for developing texture and visual interest, including collage, monoprinting, carving, color blocking, paint skins, raised stencils, glazing and so much more. • Chapters explore the phases of a multi-layered painting, from surface preparation through adding structure, developing complexity and adding finishing touches. • Follow the development of two paintings as each layer adds to the finished result, with tons of additional artwork throughout. • Gain insight on how to make paints, mediums and grounds work for you. Embracing a spirit of freedom and spontaneity, Acrylic Solutions is a stimulating guide for contemporary artists of any skill level. Beginners will learn how to make visually compelling paintings from start to finish, while more experienced artists will find the tools and inspiration to take their work to the next level.