Creative Crafting With Recycled Greeting Cards By Catherine Lawrence

This book cover several aspects of working with greeting cards. Sienkiewicz, author of several books on applique for quilters (Applique 12 Easy Ways!, C & T, 1991), provides instructions for handmade cards containing cloth cutouts "appliqued" to paper with fusible plastic bonding. Her projects take the form of "lessons" of increasing complexity with full-size patterns and instructions. Each lesson includes a gallery of photos of similar finished cards made by artists. The cards are in "country" style with a very professional finish, and are certain to become keepsakes. Lawrence takes a different approach to greeting cards, using them as raw material for making and decorating household items of all kinds. This book is crammed with projects, several to a page, with very small color illustrations. The quality of the material really deserves a larger format. However the instructions are good, and the book is full of ideas for dealing with those accumulations of cards that are just too nice to throw away.


All those greeting cards you're keeping--
what will you possibly do with them?

Projects include:
Memory Pillow Recipe Box
Valentine Clock Angel Box
Ornate Finial Picture in a Feathered Frame
Card, Stamp and Letter Boxes
and over 300 more- enough to give you something
fun to do with all the greeting cards you'll receive
for years to come!