- Paperback: 127 pages
- Publisher: North Light Books; 1 edition (March 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1581802935
- ISBN-13: 978-1581802931
- Product Dimensions: 28.3 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,776,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Crafts novices, especially those who doubt their ability to create artfully, will welcome California artist Leigh's how-to on creativity, which goes beyond abstractions and sensitivity-training exercises. Instead this generously illustrated volume encompasses 15 step-by-step projects, all promoted as "easy-to-do" and "fun-to-make." Media and techniques include silk topiaries, collage, and decoupage. Because rubber stamps make great impressions with ready-made images so that crafters need not "start from scratch," Leigh wisely begins with that medium, progressing to the decorative painting of a small box and various glass objects and papermaking with the use of a kitchen blender. Along the way, she stresses confidence and presents "idea boxes" containing hints on keeping track of craft ideas, listings of books with additional projects, and more as beginning crafters work with the "shining possibilities" of metal and wire as well as create a mosaic-tile-covered trunk and photo frame. Complete with a listing of resources, this title will be a key starting point for beginners. Whitney Scott
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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For crafters who want to be creative and don't know where to start, this book introduces the basics of ten popular craft areas, allowing them to try different types of projects to find what inspires them. Each area of craft, including painting, rubber stamping, flowers, wire, decoupage, collage, bookmaking, scrapbooking, candle making, and calligraphy, features an introduction, basic terms and techniques. The focus of this book is to try a new craft and how to capture the creative spirit.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Somewhere between true crafts and paint by numbers,
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This review is from: How to Be Creative If You Never Thought You Could (Paperback)
There have been stores build around selling already made pieces of bits and bobs to assemble with various adhesives in unique ways. The creative part is how you put them together. Did you create or make the paint? No but you smear it. Did you create or make the paper? No but you cut it. You may have even folded the paper but come short of origami.
Bottom line is if you like to assemble ready-made item in creative ways this is a great project book that take you beyond just how to make a specific object to designing where on one has gone before. Yet I would hardly call it a craft. When you are finished, you will have 16 projects to give away for Christmas. This can be fun and addicting as you find new items to assemble in "Creative" ways.
5.0 out of 5 stars
alt. title: Sparking creativity in the creative person!,
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This review is from: How to Be Creative If You Never Thought You Could (Paperback)
Today I got Tera's new book in the mail, "How To Be Creative If You Never Thought You Could." I think an alternate title could be "How to spark your creativity when you know you are creative!" I felt a surge of creativity when I opened it.This is not your run-of-the-mill project book. I generally steer away from project books because they are geared toward step-by-steps for a certain card, or a new stamper. Tera explains the project, but with every project she also talks about creativity, alternate ways to complete the project, and gives creative reinforcement/permission to be creative. It is good reading even if you don't plan to follow any of the project instructions. The text is well-written (grammar problems in craft books are a pet-peeve of mine, and I can tell that equal emphasis was given to text and creativity in this publication.) More than that, the techniques are universal, and not the same things you see in all the stamping technique books. Projects run from stamping to paper making to mosaics to wire art and beading- there is bound to be something fun that is also new to try, no matter your skill level or how very creative or non-creative you are feeling. They'd also be great projects to work with friends who are afraid to play, because they aren't overly complicated or technical projects. Following Tera's instructions I stamped on copper and aged it with liver of sulfur. It was as easy as it is described (on page 86 of the new book.) I did it with a text stamp, and worked as nicely as the swirls in the project book. If all those things aren't great reasons to buy this book, supporting a nice person is reason. Tera has encouraged creativity in others in her daily life. She runs a nonprofit through her website, Tera's Wish. She shares openly about her life and creative blocks in her book, and encourages the reader to "go for it." Tera is a genuinely good person, and we should support kind, talented people with our pocketbooks when we can. :) Amazon offers the book at a great price. :) Melanie Sage
5.0 out of 5 stars
Practical Creativity,
By Lloydene Cook (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Be Creative If You Never Thought You Could (Paperback)
Tera Leigh's book is a very accessible guide to discovering your own creative talents. The full color format and step by step photographs make it easy to follow the instructions, while still leaving plenty of room to be "creative". I also particularly like all of the sidebars which include a lot of good references to other sources--books and websites and suppliers, as well as tips and suggestions.Tera is a terrific "creativity coach" and devotes a lot of space to topics such as building your confidence and banishing your inner critic. The variety of projects presented and the manner in which Tera guides you through them makes this a useful and inspiring book.
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