Vintage Greeting Cards with MaryJo McGraw - Softcover

McGraw, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158180413X ISBN 13: 9781581804133

Publisher: North Light Books, 2003

Synopsis

Make your own Vintage Greeting Cards!

Let MaryJo McGraw, renowned rubber stamp artist and card maker, show you how to create handmade cards that capture the look and feel of antiques and heirlooms - cards overflowing with history, character and love.

You'll create 23 gorgeous cards using 14 fabulous techniques and complete step-by-step instructions. Each project is made with easy-to-find vintage papers, old family photos and ephemera, including foil, ribbons, buttons, rickrack, watch faces and more.

Learn how to:

• Apply antiquing agents like walnut ink and beeswax to "age" your cards and photos
• Use antique labels, old movie stubs and pages from old books to create unique photo collage cards
• Transfer color copier images to cardstock, metal and polymer clay
• Embellish cards with vintage buttons, ribbons and other dimensional trinkets
• Use photos of loved ones to create keepsake cards

And don't worry about losing your valuable family photos! MaryJo shows you how to use a color copier or scanner to create realistic replicas, meaning you never have to worry about destroying those precious originals. You will also find project variations and an inspirational gallery, ensuring that you never run out of ideas.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Jo McGraw is one of the world’s best known and respected rubberstamp artists. Her work is often featured in leading craft publications. She has taught classes for over 12 years and conducted demonstrations at all of the major national retail stamp shows. She is the author of Creative Rubber Stamping Techniques, Greeting Card Magic with Rubber Stamps, Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials and Making Greeting Cards with Rubber Stamps. She lives in Whittier, CA.

From Booklist:

Rubber stamp artist McGraw advocates the use of materials found at flea markets or purchased at an art retailer. McGraw's shoe polish overlay, intended to give paper a weathered sepia look, resembles antiquing with acrylic paint. Because McGraw is focusing on two-dimensional cards, she begins with a look at conquering three basics--stamping, setting eyelets, and color-copying photographs--then expands the space devoted to techniques with additional pages to explore possible variations. This book is designed in an antique photograph-album style, enhancing the mood but occasionally causing some illegibility. Barbara Jacobs
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About this edition

• Publisher: North Light Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 158180413X
• ISBN 13: 9781581804133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128