| The Decorative Stamping Sourcebook: 200+ designs for making stamps to decorate your home, Juliet Bawden, North Light Books, 1997, hardcover with dust jacket, 128pp.
Interested in personalizing your walls, lampshades, chairs, other pieces of favorite home decor, stationery, Christmas cards, and more? You will save lots of money because you don't have to buy pre-made stamps when you buy this book! There are complete, illustrated instructions on making your own stamps, and over 200 templates to trace and apply to your favorite stamping medium -- potato, sponge, foam board, foam sheet, lino, and stamp pads, if you prefer that to applying paint directly to the stamp you make with your brush or roller.
Designs range from classic Greco-Roman inspired motifs, to ethnic look, to romantic, to modern, marine, country casual, simple children's designs, and holiday ideas - Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter.
You'll also appreciate all the beautiful ways to apply your stamp art -- cupboards, storage boxes, pillows and pillowcases, stationery, curtains, wall hooks, trays, pottery, furniture, and more. Complete instructions for all applications of this art are given, including the idea that folk art need not be crude, but simple, warm, and inviting.
In excellent condition, all pages intact and clean. Dust jacket has minor wear at the corners, but covers have the same design as the jackets and are vinyl laminated, with no noticeable wear.
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