Creative Crafting With Recycled Greeting Cards

by Catherine Lawrence

“This book is crammed with projects, with...color illustrations....the instructions are good, and the book is full of ideas.”— Library Journal . “More than 300 adaptations for old greeting cards. Ideas tumble one after another, explained in a how-to format resembling a recipe, with ingredients listed first...color photographs of finished projects...guide readers....A cachepot of craftables for anyone.”— Booklist.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Lynetta]

This 1997 work does have some good ideas for using images. The first part is general instructions... for example, baking clay, different types of paint, types of brushes, stitches. For each month there are ideas that could be updated for new greeting cards, a seashell journal, tiles, etc. However, time has moved on and a stamp box is less useful that when stamps were the major way of moving messages.

The LCSH heading are 1) Handicraft. 2) Greeting cards. 3) Recycling (Waste, etc.)

TT157.
745.5

[Pumpkin+Bear]

Barf.

So much of recycled crafting is really edgy right now that it's doubly shocking to read a book in which all of the crafts are so loathesomely countrified. Of course, when this book came out ten-ish years ago, people were probably all, "Hey! I can make my creepy dried flower altars and decorated doohicky boxes and little chairs that aren't for sitting on out of recycled stuff, too?!? Wow!" But these projects are waaaaay dated right now, and dated in such a way that, although I can usually find some project to mod in even the lamest craft book, didn't find anything useful here. I mean, I don't want ANY wallhangings or doohicky boxes, even if I could figure out a way to make them more indie contemporary.