Presented here are four unique ways to go back in time and add charm to the holidays: Victorian Vintage, Shabby Chic, Country Style, and Personal Vintage. For each style, you'll find enticing projects, decorating ideas, and pictures to inspire creativity and evoke nostalgia. Craft traditional cardboard villages, give new ornaments an antique finish, and create other glorious designs.

Shows and tells how to make lovely and festive decorations for the Christmas tree.

A collection of Christmas decorations, gifts, ornaments, apparel, and ideas including patterns, charts, and instructions for projects using needlework and craft techniques.

Take the stress out of the festive season with Christmas Crafting in No Time, where you will find 50 time-saving projects that have maximum impact but take little time to make. As time is always at a premium during the holiday season, Clare Youngs has developed a beautiful collection of Christmas essentials. And with festive decorations costing more and more, why not save expense without sacrificing on style with these original ideas? There are five chapters covering a wide range of different crafting techniques - from papercutting and papier-mache to embroidery and sugar crafting - which take inspiration from different festive cultures and traditions. With designs for tree decorations, hand-made gifts, Christmas cards, gift wrap ideas and more, this book is a must have to help you make the most out of the holidays. Every project comes complete with clear step-by-step instructions and beautiful illustrations, meaning anyone can have a go at making something elegant. So why not get the family involved and create special holiday memories by making decorations together? You can then relive those happy moments each year as you decorate your home.

Offering an abundance of information and inspiration, Homemade is a revelatory addition to the craft world—the ultimate reference book on crafting and also a warm, engagingly written book that combines history and personal narrative with the science that makes a craft possible and the passion that inspires it. Carol Endler Sterbenz is a crafter, a teacher, a homemaker, a wife, and a mother. Raised by immigrant parents who taught her the enduring value of resourcefulness and creativity, she makes her lifetime of experience and infinite enthusiasm the foundation for Homemade. Sterbenz provides readers with not only practical information and direction but also a philosophy and methodology of crafting that build confidence and ability, making it easy to achieve truly professional results. Teeming with clear, reliable, and thorough information on everything from tools and materials to techniques, Homemade is an essential guide to seven of the most beloved crafts: beading, the flower arts, paper crafting, hand printing, decoupage, decorative embellishing, and children’s arts and crafts. Crafters—beginners and veterans alike—can turn to Homemade to learn which glues and finishes to use, how to form a perfect beaded loop, assemble a miniature robot, hollow out an egg, emboss paper, make a hand-tied bouquet, or transform a chandelier. Overflowing with hundreds of techniques; easy-to-follow step-by-step directions supported by more than eight hundred beautiful and precise hand-drawn illustrations, diagrams, and patterns; and countless insider secrets and troubleshooting tips, Homemade is an indispensable go-to reference no crafter should be without.