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A celebration of color and the creative possibilities of paper, this notebook was conceived by designer Brittany Watson Jepsen, founder of the beloved blog The House That Lars Built. With its rainbow-colored pages and versatile dot-grid layout, this notebook is part of a collection based on her book Craft the Rainbow.
A celebration of color and the beauty of hand-dyed paper, this journal was conceived by designer Brittany Watson Jepsen, founder of the beloved blog The House That Lars Built. With its rainbow-colored pages and exposed spine, this journal is part of a collection based on her book Craft the Rainbow.
The popular craft designer and lifestyle blogger shares a rainbow of new project ideas—all using the creative power of paper. What began as a project collection and viral Instagram hashtag (#CrafttheRainbow) has become an inspiring book featuring all-new paper project ideas. Learn how to make playful party decorations, luscious flowers, amazing cards, and sophisticated wreaths, garlands, centerpieces, and more than you can imagine. Brittany Watson Jepsen is known for the unusually imaginative and amazingly beautiful designs she creates for her website and host of clients (including Anthropologie). In Craft the Rainbow, Jepsen walks readers through the easy basics of transforming simple paper—including tissue, crepe, cardstock, leaves of books, and vintage and recycled paper—into vibrant, fanciful, handmade projects suitable for every occasion.
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 Why do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautiful? Led by the question of why working with our hands remains vital and valuable in the modern world, author and maker Melanie Falick went on a transformative, inspiring journey. Traveling across continents, she met quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, and uncovered truths that have been speaking to us for millennia yet feel urgently relevant today: We make in order to slow down. To connect with others. To express ideas and emotions, feel competent, create something tangible and long-lasting. And to feed the soul. In revealing stories and gorgeous original photographs, Making a Life captures all the joy of making and the power it has to give our lives authenticity and meaning.
My Life in Color offers a unique way to create a vibrant self-portrait. Conceived by Brittany Watson Jepsen, founder of the beloved blog The House That Lars Built, this guided journal is divided into eight color-themed chapters that are filled with thought-provoking prompts. Uncover your passions in the red section, ponder your personal growth in the green section, and think about what calms and centers you in the blue section. This hardcover journal has a removable jacket and exposed binding that shows off its multicolored signatures. It lies perfectly flat and features space to gather mementos and organize them by color. Within these pages, the random aspects of your life--your memories, current obsessions, and dreams for the future--will fall into harmony, because everything is beautiful when it is arranged in rainbow order! Inspired by Craft the Rainbow, also by Brittany Watson Jepsen, My Life in Color is part of a vibrant collection of journals, including one hardcover and one paperback notebook.
Playful: Toys and Crafts Made by Hand is a charming collection of 26 unique, modern projects for parents (and other adults) to make for young children as well as an exciting assortment of projects that kids preschool age and up can make alongside an adult. Divided into five categories--Playful Dress Up, Playful Toys, Playful Paper Crafts, Playful Repurposing and Playful Art--the low-skill/high-style/low-cost projects include fair maiden and knight dress-up smocks, a tiger pinata, a parade of paper puppets, a convoy of trucks, a dollhouse made out of cardboard and bright duct tape, an art table, a cloth trapeze doll and wooden pencil holders. Templates for artwork shown on projects are included with step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions. Authored by Merrilee Liddiard and photographed by Nicole Gerulat, this enchanting book is sure to inspire many happy hours of making--as well as make-believe--among adults and the children they love.
Who knew you could actually knit without needles? Put down those complicated knitting projects that take forever to finish. Knitting Without Needles brings cool home, gifts, and clothing accessories--cowls, totes, rugs, poufs, scarves, and more--within arm’s reach. An all-in-one resource for a new kind of craft, this book shows you how to loop yarn with your fingers or your forearms with thirty patterns that are simple to follow and produce stylish results. Best of all, many of them knit up fast—in less than an hour! Even if you’ve never picked up knitting needles, you can easily master the techniques to make fun knits with kids and for kids (a princess crown, baby booties) and even last-minute gifts (a statement necklace for your fashionista friend). With stunning photography, plenty of step-by-step photos, and a detailed resource section, Knitting Without Needles is your go-to for a new way to knit.
Learn how to make more than a dozen ribbon accessories, ribbon home décor items, and gift embellishments with this DIY guide from famed ribbon-maker and creative designer Studio Carta Most people think of ribbons for wrapping presents. But the wonderful colors and Italian cotton fabric of Studio Carta’s exclusive ribbons lend themselves to DIY projects for gifts, home decor, ornaments, and more. This book captures Studio Carta’s sophisticated signature look and presents a collection of crafts inspired by (and made with) its lovely ribbons. Silke Stoddard and Laura Murphy, both longtime Martha Stewart Living collaborators, have designed more than a dozen ribbon confections, including bows, present toppers, and little accessories. From simple DIYs to more elaborate embellishments, each project is an affordable luxury, as is the book itself: a perfect gift filled with wrapping secrets to make all of your gifts perfect, too.
Whip out your colored pencils and take a turn through the prickly desert that is Cactus. Divided into 10 beloved cacti and succulents, designer and blogger, Brittany Jepsen, created Cactus Coloring Book, 60 pages of hand-illustrated patterns, bouquets, and scientific charts awaiting the distinctive color palettes only a cacti lover could imagine. Coloring difficulty ranges from easy to challenging . The designs are on the front of the pages only, allowing for markers and various creative media. The book is laid out like a catalogue, with sections for 10 different cacti and succulents. Each section contains a scientific chart, blooming bouquet, stylized pattern, symmetrical layout, macro view, and a mixed pattern of all the botanicals. Some pages are highly detailed showing the various parts of the cacti while others contain larger blocks of space. All are frame-worthy works of art. Connect with Brittany on Instagram-@HouseLarsBuilt-and tag your photos with @ColoringWithLars, to share your colored pages, for creative coloring inspiration, and for the chance to be featured. It's perfect for meditation time for adults or as a family activity for teens and kids alike!
An inspiring, practical and gorgeous guide to crafting the most realistic and artful paper flowers for arrangements, art, décor, wearables and more, from San Francisco botanical artist Tiffanie Turner. The Fine Art of Paper Flowers is an elevated art and craft guide that features complete step-by-step instructions for over 30 of Tiffanie Turner’s widely admired, unique, lifelike paper flowers and their foliage, from bougainvillea to English roses to zinnias. In the book, Turner also guides readers through making her signature giant paper peony, shares all of her secrets for special paper treatments, candy-striping, playing with color and creating botanical imperfections, and shows how to turn paper flowers into gorgeous garlands, headdresses, bouquets and more. These stunning creations can be made from simple and inexpensive materials and the book's detailed tutorials and beautiful photography make it easy to achieve dramatic and lifelike results.