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 enlarge | Author: Traci Bautista
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $22.99
Buy New: $6.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 32783
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1581808453
Dewey Decimal Number: 702.812
EAN: 9781581808452
ASIN: 1581808453
Publication Date: May 29, 2006
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Condition: Brand New. Carefully packed and shipped within 24 hours with tracking! (PP79)
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 Collage for Everyone April 10, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a really wonderful book and the ideas that Traci Bautista gives are fresh and original. I love her 'girlie girls' and how simple her collage ideas are to do. Nothing in the book is beyond even the novice like me to do.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants fresh inspiration, fantastic colors and easy ideas to wake up their own collage or altered art projects.
 This Book is Deceptive . . . March 29, 2007
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Deceptively simple, that is. When I glanced at in the bookstore, I put it back on the shelf. Too messy, not enough instructions, not enough "projects," I thought. Then I saw the author on a craft show demonstrating one of the techniques, and thought it looked like fun. I bought the book, and I can honestly say it has changed my approach to my art. I've had this book for 6 months and I get something new out of it every time I look at it. All of the projects are aimed at getting you to play, to experiment, to let loose and have fun and just create for the joy of creating. I didn't "learn" how to make textile art from the book, but the samples in the book inspired me to begin painting fabric, drag the sewing machine out, and dust the cobwebs off of it. I didn't "learn" how to make my own journals from the book either, but I needed something to do with all those fabulous monoprints I was creating! I love this book and would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn to loosen up, experiment, and have fun creating art.
 Good Visual March 11, 2007
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
The book has good visual inspiration, but it lacks in the instructional area of collage.
From Yael, a French reader March 8, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
One of my favourite books since Sabrina Ward Harrison. I really love this book, I see it as "an absolute must" to have and keep absolutely. Everything is crazy in it, but it's exactly how I love to work, and though I'm a teacher in Art&Craft, and Artist and writer, I learnt a lot of new things in this book. I read it several times, and I tried many things from it. It's also a lot of fun, it is for readers who like original, crazy, different Art. If you like the very classical way, oh no, it's not for you.
There is a true freedom of way to do things in this book, and it is what I love, it is fun, not heavy and sad. It is for everyone and it's not pretentious, it is exactly how should be Art : Beauty for everybody.
Yael from Paris
 Colorful and complex... February 6, 2007
13 out of 21 found this review helpful
...like vomit. The overall layout is chaotic and busy. The content is greatly lacking. Few "how-to's" are actually included in the book, and those that are are not detailed enough to follow. Included at the end of each section is page or two of randomly spaced and fonted words that are supposed to be a list of possible sources of material and inspiration for the preceeding section. Unfortunately, most of the entries are rather mundane. More useful would be an expanded "how-to" section using examples from these lists. Further more, one of the reasons I purchased the book, "crayon transfers," is not actually described. I much prefer Claudine Hellmuth's two inspiring and helpful books on the same subject.
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