Create your own elegant greeting cards with the beauty of lifelike paper flowers! Paper Flower Note Cards provides all the information you need. With just scissors, craft glue and a few sheets of colorful heavyweight paper, anyone can create stunning floral gift cards, gift toppers and place cards in no time at all! Emiko Yamamoto's simple step-by-step instructions explain how to cut and assemble each card for flawless results every time. Templates provided in the back of the book are reusable and allow you to reproduce the designs many times. This collection includes more than 30 dazzling designs for creative notes and floral decorations: Pop-up cards with petals that gently splay when the card is opened Decorative cards with three-dimensional flowers across the surface Elegant & subtle floral silhouette cards Cards for specific occasions like birthdays, weddings, baby showers, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Halloween or Christmas Seasonal cards that can be customized for any occasion year round At the heart of each design is a beautiful flower, and there are many to choose from Rose Peony Carnation Hydrangea Cosmos Morning glory Sunflower Poinsettia And more! You'll dazzle your friends and family with these handmade works of art!

New York City-based writer and illustrator Williamson shares discoveries about Japan and its culture based on a recent year spent in Kyoto as a postgraduate student. The text combines the author's colorful illustrations with brief descriptions presented in a script-style text. The end result is a charming, journal-like publication in which Williams

Galison's Cherry Blossom Garden diecut Gift Notes make every gift special. British illustrator Mary Woodin has created spring garden images for two different cards. One gift card labeled Cherry Blossom shows cherry blossoms, bird, butterfly, bee, and inside, a robin redbreast. The card labeled Apple Katy shows a robin redbreast on a large cherry blossom with a blue butterfly, and on the back, another bird, ladybug, and insect and a Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation: "Earth laughs in flowers." Green dotted envelopes are illustrated with a robin on a watering can, bee, and butterfly.

Galison's Japanese Cherry Blossoms Keepsake Box of note cards reproduces four different details of cherry blossoms from the Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection in the Rare and Special Collections division of the National Agricultural Library. Printed on the botttom of the box is an especially apt Japanese proverb: "Experience the beauties of nature, and in doing so learn about yourself." The sturdy decorative box holds cards and envelopes neatly and has information about the cherry trees given to Washington, DC by the mayor of Tokyo in 1912. When the cards have been sent, the box is great for storing all sorts of little things—from extra buttons to pressed blossoms.