All the soaps are practical and fun to make and are kind to the skin Soapmaking ingredients and supplies are readily available The techniques are simple to learn New in Paperback Soaps fragrant with cinnamon, "painted", with natural colouring, stamped or laminated, that fizz in the bath, and even have a written message. These 300 beautiful, easy ...
Contains 20 recipes for making your own soaps using essential oils, herbs and flowers. Start with a basic bar of white soap, or learn how to make a bar from scratch. The book also offers ideas for bath salts, bath oils, bubble baths, massage oils, facial scrubs and bath tea bags.
Soaps fragrant with oils of spices, fizzing up the bath, or moulded into perfect petals to place in a pretty jar beside the sink. Ones with guardian angels or good luck coins tucked inside. Such great ideas that will, of course get you clean, and oh so gently, but they're almost too attractive to use up! Just take commercially available ...
Girls ages four to nine love a good fairy tale. But these love letters show they're not pretend princesses - their King is for real, and so is their royal identity!
Decorate, create, and give with love--or start a successful home business: that's what crafters can do with this jazzy, snazzy guide to putting together the perfect gift basket. Written by Marie Browning, author of the best-selling "Jazzy Jars," it's not only filled with a variety of techniques for decorating the baskets--painting, decoupage, ...
A jar can be two gifts in one, if it's filled with candy, cookies, tea, coffee, herbs, bath salts or other culinary treats or fragrant offerings--and decorated on the outside to display what's on the inside. Jar crafts are great for holidays or any special occasion. Featured are dozens of different jar projects, all with simple illustrated ...
Make an assortment of colorful, fragrant soaps right at home. It's simple and fun with melt-and-pour soap bases, plus easily purchased molds, tools, essential oils, and natural dyes. The delightful boutique-quality options include molded and loaf-style picture soaps, embedded and embossed soaps, fossil soaps (great for kids), and basic carved ...
Slow down (maybe even stop), and smell the roses--and the jasmine, sandalwood, peppermint, and citrus blends, too. These remarkable fragrant candles, soaps, and potpourris make it simple for overworked, stressed-out women to experience the relaxing pleasures of aromatherapy every day. Each deliciously aromatic item in this lushly illustrated ...
Quilling--also known as paper filigree or scroll work--is the art of rolling very thin strips of paper into elegant shapes, turning them into beautiful designs, and then gluing them onto a base for display. This new guide from the prolific Marie Browning presents a range of techniques, both traditional and new, that will delight and intrigue ...
Casting - pouring a material such as plaster or concrete into a mould, letting it cure and then unmoulding it - is a simple procedure that yields fantastic results. Popular author Marie Browning provides a comprehensive introduction to every aspect of the craft, with a wide range of techniques, stunning projects to make and beauty shots of every ...
Transform a gift into an extraordinary expression of friendship or love with handmade packaging. Filled with gorgeous photographs, how-tos, and patterns, this inspiring resource offers dozens of inventive ideas that use decoupage, faux painting, gold leafing, block printing, rubber stamping, and more. Make and decorate a wide range of boxes, ...
Take your pick from a wealth of book ideas so charmingly original that they will become a treasured place to store your memories. Personalise your books with ideas for a Chinese folded scroll, a botanical journal, baby book and business travel book. Make an elegant faux-leather photograph book or construct tiny notebooks made from sticky note pads ...
Marie Browning's best-selling Jazzy Jars delighted crafters with its clever, yet wonderfully easy, suggestions for turning the humble jar into a breathtaking gift package. The creative fun continues in this follow-up collection, which has dozens of all-new, even better projects, patterns, techniques, and ideas. There are spectacular options galore ...
The latest entry in the popular "In an Afternoon[registered]" series focuses on quick and easy techniques for paper mosaics-a simpler method than the tile and glass versions, but equally attractive. Written by highly regarded author Marie Browning, it's sure to become the next Afternoon success. Here is everything you need to get started: ...
Thanks to a variety of new products and fresh designs, this comprehensive look at an age-old craft offers exciting projects with contemporary style! The first in the "Paper Crafts Workshop" series, it showcases a wide variety of beautiful creative techniques to try. There' s paper tole, quilling, collage, femmage (collage art that incorporates ...
This book starts with recipes for 20 hand-milled soaps and then moves on with recipes for bath salts, bath oils, bubble baths, massage oils, facial scrubs and bath tea bags.
These handbags are bold and beautiful - a varied selection with something to complement every outfit, fit every occasion and suit every mood. They're also fun and simple to make: many start with "fabric purse blanks" which come from craft stores complete with handles and closures, ready to embellish, or begin with a plain tote. The wide range of ...
Time for some good, clean fun with dozens of safe soap projects for kids ages 8-12. Using safe, readily-available ingredients in melt-and-pour recipes, along with a variety of tantalizing fragrances, additives, and colorants, kids will have a blast making molded bar and liquid soap, bath fizzies and salts, bubble baths, body powders, lip glosses, ...
Make exquisite, one-of-a-kind paper to use as stationery and gift wrap, for greeting cards and envelopes, collage work, and many other crafts. Using inexpensive and readily available supplies, you can create spectacular effects--even if you think you have no artistic ability! Apply historic and modern techniques, including batik, block printing, ...
A guide to making gifts from your garden, including cosmetics, perfumes, potpourri, flavoured teas, herb butter, liqueurs and more. It presents a variety of techniques for drying and preserving, pressing flowers and vegetables to mount and display, and preparing food and drink.
Marie Browning, author of "Jazzy Jars (1-4027-0858-0)", "Really Jazzy Jars" and "Jazzy Gift Baskets", is here with more dazzling techniques and projects to please the discerning crafter. These great gift jars are painted and decoupaged, ornamented with polymer clay, embellished with mosaics, covered with beads and charms, topped with decorative ...
Fine quality papers - like parchment and vellum - have long been the choice for invitations and flyleaves in books. But they also work wonderfully for crafting and really stand up to intricate piercing, cutting, and folding. A well-respected artist presents a variety of techniques, from image transfers and stamping to embossing and flower pressing ...
The latest entry in the "Paper Craft Workshop" series shows just how easy it can be to express yourself with the popular art form of collage. Most of the elements needed for this technique come from "found" materials such as images from magazines and newspapers, making it a means of expression that is immediately accessible to everyone. The ...
This is a guide to creating handmade gifts using your photographs and memorabilia. With a colour copier or laser printer, these images can grace a number of decorative items, using techniques such as transfering, tinting and decoupage. All the techniques are explained, with over 40 projects that include a vacation memory box, baby door sign, ...
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