Review:
Even if you've never stamped anything more than the date on a business form, you'll find crafting success with Carol Scheffler's colorful and user-friendly Rubber Stamping for the First Time. Like other worthwhile books in the First Time series, this guide takes a sensible question-and-answer approach to teach techniques and offer project directions simultaneously. "How do I heat emboss?" for instance, heads up the directions for a journal; "How do I create a scene with rubber stamps?" yields a videotape cover; "How do I use stamps on wood?" introduces a decorative bowl; and so on through gift tags, note cards, picture frames, lampshades, dinnerware, a clock, and much more. Each of the 27 projects brings with it a new technique, but if you decide to jump ahead, it's simple enough to find the technique you've skipped over by glancing at the table of contents. Sidebars bestow additional tips, and a gallery of designs by stamping masters provides further inspiration. --Amy Handy
About the Author:
Carol Scheffler is the crafts expert on NBC's Today Show and contributes to the show's website which receives several million visits per month. She writes for magazines Popular Photography, The Rubber Stamper and Stamper's Sampler
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