While an infinite variety of ready-made paper exists, luscious papers decorated with your own hands can be customized to fit a particular theme, motif, and color scheme. This book shows how to decorate your own paper with simple techniques and everyday materials. The author explains how to use scraping, layering, solvents, resists, wet-in-wet effects, stamping, and many other methods to produce beautiful decorative papers. The techniques incorporate many creative and easy to find tools and materials: salt, craft glue, bubble wrap, waxed paper, bottle caps, instant coffee and more. Filled with inspiring photos of beautiful decorated papers and step-by-step instructions - including paper flowers, rolled-paper beads, and an altered book journal - that will get readers started using their own decorative papers.

About the Author

Paula Guhin is a photographer, mixed-media artist, visual arts educator, and writer. She teaches workshops and does demonstrations internationally. She is also a contributing editor at Arts & Activities Magazine. Paula lives in South Dakota.

Reviews

May/Jun 12

Creating Decorative Paper offers 10 chapters of colorful, engaging photos anduseful information for making paper discoveries to use in your artwork. Beginning with a discussion on paper and its many varieties, moving on to techniques to alter and embellish papers, and finishing every chapter with a project to use your newfound knowledge, Guhin has all the bases covered. Learn to make simple strokes and lines for special effects; layer, stamp, and laminate papers; use resists, masks, and much, much more. There is plenty of good information to get you back on track, or possibly to send you in a whole new creative direction.

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Book Information
ISBN 9780811736466
Author Paula Guhin
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Stackpole Books
Publisher Stackpole Books
Weight(grams) 539g
Dimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 8mm