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Vintage Paper Crafts | 
 enlarge | Author: Anna Corba
Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 288021
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 3.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1402756151
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9781402756153
ASIN: 1402756151
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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Product Description
Old notebooks, discarded postcards purchased from a flea market, sheaves of sheet music, yellowed newspapers with foreign language text: Learn new ways to give virtually any piece of old paper vintage charm. Anna Corba shares her tried-and-true secrets of how to make decorative pieces of art that are fun and functional. Her beautiful projects are outlined here—from contemporary fans to decorated glassware to party favors—with detailed instructions, charming color photos, and tips to help imaginative crafters express their individual personality with vintage style. Discover the unexpected value and charm of old bottle caps, measuring tapes, wooden spools, and weathered bingo cards. Then learn how items like beeswax, faded tassels, and double-stick tape can transform ordinary objects into unique keepsakes.
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 Interesting projects , clear instruction and good sourcing ideas. November 18, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
These are simple projects - you do not need any more instruction than you get , it's not rocket science. I love S. Evertson too , and own her books as well , but the pictures she provides are often already cut and altered , which is it's own set of problems. So is the re-sizing , at least for me! ( I don't think my printer likes me much.) (I'm also pretty sure it's not the same one she has.) I'm certainly not going to complain , though. Anna isn't as whimsical as Sandra - her style is an eclectic and elegant one. Google her and take a look , see if you like it. I read a comment about these not being "practical" , and they aren't. They're decorative , fun little things to screw around with when you feel like creating something just to make it , I think , instead of bending your mind around the one that's giving your brain a cramp. And you can always pick an item in your home you'd like to modify , and adapt a project from the book to that - pick something that has a pleasing look to it , and go for it!
Anna doesn't use much you can't find yourself the same way she does , other than actually travelling. The materials can be found the same way I find them - go look. Look at thrift stores , garage sales , dollar , craft and fabric stores , antique stores and online. Look for images in the Library of Congress , which is a nightmare of navigating but doable (good maps to download) or get great clipart on ebay. If you're dedicated , and I say this with a smile , you already know that! You can actually google "found objects" and come up with stores that will sell them to you (who knew? I didn't , at least not until just recently!).
Oh , just buy it - it's a fun one.
 Good book, but thin November 15, 2006
I enjoyed this book, which I thought had some inspirational projects and ideas. I like Anna's style and didn't mind that the book includes no "step-by-step" instructions. I do think more photos could have been included (I noticed several duplications) as well as a CD containing the ephemera. A trend is developing now of including clip art in the final pages of craft books. In my opinion, if clip art is to be included, a CD (which costs only pennies to produce) containing the clip art images should also be included. Having to take a book apart to copy and resize pages is not a good thing. I won't be taking my book apart to copy it; so the purpose is defeated.
 Yuk! May 24, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Was disappointed in the ideas. Seemed to be more of an extension of the author's collections, than ideas for the reader. Scanned the book it and put it on the shelf, won't be one that I use as a constant reference.
Visually pleasing but the instructions lacked umph. February 13, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a great craft book fan and looked forward to receiving this one. It is visually pleasing and even includes quite a bit of ephemera for the reader to use (must be photocopied and not cut because it is two-sided, but that's OK).
My problem was that, with the exception of the intro where the reader is told to 'go to flea markets - and the one in Paris is great' none of the projects had any sourcing guidelines at all.
I also found the instructions were quite bland - meaning they were numbered and typed without any step-by-step photographs - only pictures of the completed projects. Even the descriptions often left you wanting a little more.
Overall - great book as a jumping off point for your imagination; I just wished she shared more techniques rather than a bevy of finished projects.
The best book! February 4, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the first review I've ever written and just had to do so because I keep coming back to this book for inspiration. This is a fantastic book and I plan to add Anna's other books to my collection.
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