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Transform a simple sheet of paper into a delicate snowflake, a sweet flower, or a dainty doily—or create an enchanted forest using a modern twist on the traditional technique for making paper dolls. Paper cutouts get a fresh look in this contemporary approach to the practice of transforming paper into art. It’s full of clever and cute designs and a range of different cutting techniques that you can use to make your own cutouts for display, decoration, or embellishment.
Offering a range of styles, this book presents paper cutting techniques through clear step-by-step instruction, detailed diagrams, and templates. Once you’ve mastered the basics, creative uses for paper cutouts are offered, including as cards, gift wrap, mobiles, collages, stencils, garlands, and more.
Make the paper cuts in this book and add a creative touch to your home, gifts, or projects.
Offering a range of styles, this book presents paper cutting techniques through clear step-by-step instruction, detailed diagrams, and templates. Once you’ve mastered the basics, creative uses for paper cutouts are offered, including as cards, gift wrap, mobiles, collages, stencils, garlands, and more.
Make the paper cuts in this book and add a creative touch to your home, gifts, or projects.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The quality of this book is really good with very easy to follow instructions. Be aware, the projects are extremely simple, you may feel that you do not need instructions on how to make paper snowflakes or variations on paper chains. I bought it to use in an informal craft group. The members mostly liked the book and readily thought up ways of utilising the ideas it contains. However if you would like something challenging, this is not for you.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love this book and was able to cut out a shape really easily but some of the folds are printed so small that i get lost when trying to do the more complicated. I would have liked this to have been bigger.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
GREAT BOOK FOR FUN PROJECTS
15 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
i'm new to paper cutting, i've ordered quite a few books on this subject lately, but this is certainly one of the best, clear easy directions, beautiful projects made from paper, anyone can do this if they put a little time into it, and its cheap craft, but the final results are beautiful. highly recommend this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Great illustrations, easy to follow instructions
9 April 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is both eye candy and useful tutor. A lot of crafts books are either ugly and useful, or pretty but lack directions to create the projects. This book has both, and it's easy to get started - you need scissors and paper, that's it. A clever part of the book shows you how to use candy wrappers and shopping bags for free paper and inspiration. This book is great fun to work out of. It gives you a good launching point for experimentation, as well as many different projects to do as-is.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
fun and easy
30 Sep 2011
Format:Paperback
This is quite a fun book although a bit repetitive and not many techniques are taught. Apart from instructions on techniques, there are also pages devoted to projects and paper cut ideas from different artists. Many of the designs are easy to execute, so the book can be used for crafting with children as well. There are some more difficult projects like landscapes and scenes with people figures.
As with most Japanese craft books (this is a translation of a Japanese book), Creative Paper Cutting is very beautifully photographed and presented. There are clear instructions on the different ways of folding paper for cutting and all you need to do to make the various patterns is to trace or copy them from the book.
Of the artists featured, I especially enjoyed the works of Keiko Tsuji. It's pretty amazing how she manages to cut (without patterns) in just the right places from scraps of printed paper and shopping bags to give her paper figures hair, socks, shoes and clothes without any additional drawing.
As with most Japanese craft books (this is a translation of a Japanese book), Creative Paper Cutting is very beautifully photographed and presented. There are clear instructions on the different ways of folding paper for cutting and all you need to do to make the various patterns is to trace or copy them from the book.
Of the artists featured, I especially enjoyed the works of Keiko Tsuji. It's pretty amazing how she manages to cut (without patterns) in just the right places from scraps of printed paper and shopping bags to give her paper figures hair, socks, shoes and clothes without any additional drawing.
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