Magenta Style Paper Magic: Ideas and Techniques for Stunning Albums, Cards, Gift Wrap, Home Decor, and More by Nathalie Metivier and Leslie Conron Carola
Magenta Style Paper Magic: Ideas and Techniques for Stunning Albums, Cards, Gift Wrap, Home Decor, and More is a paperback book with 128 pages, published in February 2007 inspired by Magenta, a unique, sophisticated, creative, encouraging, and magical company in Quebec, Canada which offers paper-crafting products.
This book includes projects on creating memorable scrapbooks, album covers, cards, invitations, stationery, picture frames, Christmas tree ornaments and decorative boxes. These projects are created with combined inventive ideas, tips, and techniques mixed with the Magenta style: abundant, rich color, texture and embellishments.
It contains twenty-five main projects and each one has material list, instructions and colorful photos. Every technique has variations in color palette, materials and size. Techniques include crisscross binding, masking, embossing resist, stained glass window panels, unique paper folding and pop up image. It aims to teach Magenta rubber stamping, coloring and decorating way.
This book shows how Magenta creates designs with detailed attention and creative imagination. Ideally this book can be enjoyed by readers who are already familiar with Magenta style of crafting however, beginners can be assured that they too can take pleasure learning the crafts presented in this reference material.
Table of contents include the following chapters: folding, tearing and cutting paper, layering, coloring and embossing techniques, adding unique embellishments, further than paper and templates. Templates are printed with a cube box and cover, tri fold and swivel panel cards and star box. It was written by Nathalie Metivier, an artist who uses stickers as album designs and Leslie Carola, a popular book writer of other paper-craft books.