“Browning...has an artistic touch that sets her book apart....Her projects make good use of handmade paper, natural objects, and currently popular decorative techniques such as thermal embossing. Step-by-step instructions are given for making bindings and lacing entirely from scratch....Excellent addition to public library collections.”—Library Journal.

Handcrafted Journals, Albums, Scrapbooks & More

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Browning, Marie

Crafts & Hobbies

Sterling

Harvest the most glorious gifts right in your own backyard--and show your family and friends that you care enough to make the very best! Gather the most fragrant herbs, the prettiest roses, and the garden's freshest vegetables, and use them to whip up cosmetics, perfumes, potpourri, and many more homemade presents. Experiment with the variety of techniques for drying and preserving your bounty, press flowers and vegetables for displaying under glass or mounting, concoct individualized beauty products, and prepare delicious food and drink, like herb butters, flavored teas and liqueurs. And, if you don't have a garden--just take a trip to your local farmer's market! The author lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK.

Making Glorious Gifts From Your Garden

“Many herbal tomes profess to act as one-stop crafting ...Browning carries through on that promise.”—Booklist. “Browning makes and packages the fragrant creations of traditional herbalists such as bath oils, potpourri, and culinary vinegars, oils, and syrups....explains techniques, provides recipes, and offers photos showing the gifts packaged for presentation. This excellent, up-to-date summary of herbal crafts is recommended for public libraries.”—Library Journal.

Making Glorious Gifts from Your Garden

Hand Decorating Paper

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, marbling, splattering, and tie-dye. Make faux leather paper, transfer color with tissue paper, and design with stencils and rubber stamps. The possibilities are truly endless. “Easy techniques to creating gorgeous papers.”—Somerset Studio.

Beautifully strong, yet with smooth and translucent surfaces, vellum and parchment have long been the papers of choice for wedding invitations and flyleaves in books. Their fine qualities also work wonderfully for crafting and really stand up to intricate piercing, cutting, and folding. A well-respected artist and designer presents a variety of techniques from image transfers and stamping to embossing and flower pressing for a dimensional look; the elegant and classic projects include cards, containers, lanterns, and other decorations. Edge notepaper with borders inspired by antique lace and make lampshades that glow warmly under the light, cornucopia sachets, framed nature prints, window and woven cards, three-panel luminarias, a foldout book, and incandescent star ornaments. The design possibilities are practically unlimited!

Crafting with Vellum & Parchment: New & Exciting Paper Projects

Soaps fragrant with oils or spices, fizzing up the bath, or molded into perfect petals to place in a pretty jar beside the sink. Ones with guardian angels or good luck coins tucked inside. A virtual cornucopia of beautiful soaps will delight your senses with their scents, shapes, and feel. (Of course, they'll get you clean too, oh so gently, but they're almost too attractive to use up!) And, these soaps are easy to make, out of the kindest, chemical-free ingredients. Just take a commercially available glycerine or coconut-oil base, cut it up, and melt in a microwave or double boiler. Pour the liquid into molds to set--and let the real fun begin. Your imagination will go wild with possibilities as you check out different types of aromatic and essential oil (with tips on blending); additives such as almond or beeswax, colorants; and molds for hexagons, delicate shells, and more. Plus: information on hand milling! A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Melt & Pour Soapmaking

With a color copier or laser printer, these images can grace any number of decorative items. Open up those scrapbooks and journals to find a wealth of material for découpage, transfers, and designs. All the techniques are explained, with over 40 unique projects that include a Vacation Memory Box, Baby Door Sign, Beaded Photo Purse, and Beveled Glass Ornament.

Family Photocrafts: Preserving Your Treasured Past in Special Ways

Don't let treasured photographs languish unseen in dusty albums! With a color copier or laser printer, these images can grace any number of decorative items. Open up those scrapbooks and journals to find a wealth of material for découpage, transfers, and designs. All the techniques are explained, with over 40 unique projects that include a Vacation Memory Box, Baby Door Sign, Beaded Photo Purse, and Beveled Glass Ornament. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

Memory Gifts: Preserving Your Treasured Past In Special Ways

“Browning...has an artistic touch that sets her book apart....Her projects make good use of handmade paper, natural objects, and currently popular decorative techniques such as thermal embossing. Step-by-step instructions are given for making bindings and lacing entirely from scratch....Excellent addition to public library collections.”—Library Journal.

Computers & Technology

Graphics & Design

Soap -- gentle, all natural and handmade -- makes a wonderful gift -- for yourself or a friend! Create healthier, more beautiful, more fragrant soaps than anything you can find in a store, for a fraction of the cost, using simple equipment you probably already own. Just start with a basic bar of white soap or produce yours from scratch. Add therapeutic and aromatic accents. Once you've tried the 20 recipes for hand-milled soaps, go on to bath salts, bath oils, bubble baths, massage oils, facial scrubs, and bath tea bags. Full-color photos show you how beautiful your soaps can be, and captioned illustrations explain each step. Complete recipes cover a variety of enticing creations:

Beautiful Handmade Natural Soaps: Practical Ways to Make Hand-Milled Soap and Bath Essentials (Included -- Charming Ways to Wrap, Label, & Present Your Creations as Gifts)

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

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Handcrafted Journals, Albums, Scrapbooks & More

Making Glorious Gifts From Your Garden

Making Glorious Gifts from Your Garden

Hand Decorating Paper

Crafting with Vellum & Parchment: New & Exciting Paper Projects

Melt & Pour Soapmaking

Family Photocrafts: Preserving Your Treasured Past in Special Ways

Memory Gifts: Preserving Your Treasured Past In Special Ways

Handcrafted Journals, Albums, Scrapbooks & More

Beautiful Handmade Natural Soaps: Practical Ways to Make Hand-Milled Soap and Bath Essentials (Included -- Charming Ways to Wrap, Label, & Present Your Creations as Gifts)