Books about Decoupage from Amazon.com



Floorquilts!: Fabric Decoupaged Floorcloths-No-Sew Fun
Easier to make than an ordinary quilt...stronger than a rug...able to cover large swaths of floor...Floorquilts are the superpowers of fabric crafting! Basic decoupage techniques and supplies are all that’s needed to transform a mild-mannered piece of cloth into a beautiful, durable floorcloth. Step-by-step instructions guide readers every step of the way through thirteen appealing projects, from choosing raw fabric to waterproofing the finished Floorquilt. How-to photograph and inspiring examples of floorcloths, placemats, coasters, luggage tags, trivets, bookmarks, and more mean this is the ideal craft for anyone who wants to use cloth as a power for good.
 
* No sewing!

* Use rag-bag scraps to make 13 stunning projects

* Floorcloths, placemats, coasters, bookmarks, more
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Price: $13.39 [Notify me when price goes down.]


New Decoupage: Transforming Your Home with Paper, Glue, and Scissors
Get ready to take decoupage way beyond its Victorian image. Contemporary decoupage works are made with family photos, magazine clippings, handmade papers, or any other image that strikes the artist’s fancy. Decoupage is a great way to get your cherished memories out of the scrapbook and on display, using them to make over flea-market finds and create one-of-a-kind furniture and accessories for your home.

After a brief history of the art and a review of the fundamental techniques of modern decoupage, author Durwin Rice offers complete instructions for more than 18 unique projects, both simple and more ambitious, from a delicate vase to a dining room table. You can also transform entire rooms by decoupaging doorways, mantels, and even ceilings.

New Decoupage offers a truly fresh take on this traditional craft, demonstrating how a few simple materials–paper, glue, and scissors–will enable you to create stylish home accents that transform your surroundings into works of art..
Price: $9.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Absolute Beginner's Decoupage: The Simple Step-by-Step Guide
The art of decoupage is explained simply and clearly in these inspiring pages, enabling even novices to master all the basic techniques needed to create an endless array of beautifully decorated pieces. 200 color illustrations..
Price: $4.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Paper Cutouts

45 spectacular designs for handcrafting with paper cuttings

The art of paper cutting has a long history Ancient cuttings, some dating from before 1000 B.C., have been excavated in China's Xinjiang province. Today, paper cutting is a popular handcraft worldwide, with a variety of applications.

Paper Cutouts features 45 designs of stunning motifs that can be used around the home or framed as elegant artworks. Each design includes a full-sized template to photocopy in advance. The authors provide step-by-step instructions that explain how to fold and cut, with the intricate designs revealed in white or colored paper.

The designs include:

  • A hanging lamp
  • Room dividers and screens
  • Motif rounds (swans, winter chalets, angels)
  • Motif squares (spring, summer, winter, autumn)
  • Wall friezes (under the sea; garden; on the farm)
  • Repeating motifs (bird on a branch, fern, scarabs)
  • Mirror motifs (dragons, herons).

Paper Cutouts is a beautiful how-to guidebook for this ancient handcraft and a unique showcase of modern designs for artists and crafters.

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Price: $15.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Three-Dimensional Papercraft (A Passion for Paper)
Suitable for all skill levels, this book of six charming découpage projects features clear and simple instructions and step-by-step photographs that illustrate the stages of each project  From figures and flowers to street scenes and big cats, the techniques needed to create realistic effects—including feathering, shaping, and making leaves and petals—are clearly presented for beautiful results.
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Price: $9.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Decoupage: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide
Complete with 30 projects, this beautifully illustrated guide reveals the endless variety of articles of all shapes, sizes, and surfaces that can be embellished with decorative paper.
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Price: $9.20 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Fresh Ideas in Decoupage
This book delivers what today's crafters are looking for: updated, sophisticated home decorating projects that are easy, inexpensive and fun to make. Taking a new approach to the classic craft of decoupage, weekend crafters will learn to transform flea market finds and ordinary objects into decorative pieces that enhance the décor of every room.

Crafters will find:

-Simple, quick and effective how-to instruction that allows them to create great projects fast

-Blending techniques for integrating decoupage with staining, stamping and texturing to create an appealing, artistic look

-Projects that can be created using many on-hand materials, such as napkins, wrapping paper, boxes and ordinary household items

-Step-by-step instruction for creating professional-quality decorative pieces, including bowls, pots, wall cones, memory boxes and more

Projects offer a range of styles from Romantic and European style to Modern Country and retro-kitsch. Many of the projects also feature variation ideas for making each decoupage creation truly unique..
Price: $1.46 [Notify me when price goes down.]



The Decoupage Gallery: A Collection of Over 450 Color and 550 Black-and-White Design Motifs
Aptly called "painting with scissors," decou-page is the art of decorating a surface with cut-out paper images, as beautifully documented in this overflowing archive of popular decoupage subjects. The book opens with a brief history of the craft and provides concise instructions for cutting out motifs, coloring black-and-white prints, preparing surfaces, gluing, varnishing, and sanding. Then a dazzling collection of more than a thousand prints provides animals, bows and ribbons, cherubs and cupids, flowers, fruits, and vegetables, shells and marine life, sporting images, and numerous borders and background patterns. The color pages are printed on one side so that all of the images can be used; because they can be photocopied easily, the black-and-white pages are printed on both sides..
Price: $6.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Three-Dimensional Decoupage
Discover how to use a range of source materials—coloured paper, colour photocopies, rubber stamps, cards, gift wrap, and commercial sets of prints—to create stunning pictures.
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Price: $6.24 [Notify me when price goes down.]


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