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Readers look to the Simply Beautiful series as the source for stylish crafts that are quick and easy to make. The fourth title in this series focuses on the perennial favorite craft: Rubber Stamping. Simply Beautiful Rubber Stamping:
-Features 50 illustrated step-by-step projects, including greeting cards, gift boxes, journals, and scrapbooks
-Includes a higher number of projects with fewer steps than similar books -- all using bright colors and whimsical images that are today's biggest trends
-Offers simple instructions for heat embossing, masking, layering, adding embellishments, and more.
These user-friendly ideas are both hip and sophisticated, making this book perfect for the first-time stamper or the busy crafter.
Customer Reviews:
What a Beautiful Book!.......2005-12-25
I had the priviledge to meet the author at Stampfest in Orlando this summer when I took her watercolor class using rubber stamps. Kathie is a wonderful teacher so I was excited to buy her book when it was finally published. I can honestly say it has surpassed my expectations!! I have been addicted to card making and rubber stamping for just over 2 years now so I've read many books and magaiznes on papercrafts and this is by far one of the best books I've come across! The book is full of beautiful projects and full of color photographs with step-by-step instructions that a beginner can easily follow but the book also has projects that will appeal to more experienced stampers as well. This is a great book for both learning and will provide inspiration as well. I'm giving it as a gift to my rubber-stamping friends this holiday season. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in rubber stamping!!
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A gorgeous handcrafted card means so much, whether it's for a birthday, a new baby or just to say hello. With Simply Beautiful Cards, even the busiest reader can make thoughtful and personalized cards in almost no time. Perfect for all papercraft enthusiasts and crafters, this book:
* Provides 40 sample cards--each designed to be made quickly and easily; variations ideas give the reader even more inspiration
* Shows how to add simple, yet elegant touches with ribbon, a charm, or a well-placed image
* Includes examples for all occasions in a wide variety of styles
* Uses inexpensive materials available in any craft store
Professional artist Heidi Boyd supplies easy instruction and unique ideas that will jump start any imagination.
Customer Reviews:
Must be better out there.......2005-05-20
This would be a great book if it is the last in your large collection, and you are looking for a card specific to something obscure like celebrating a chinese take-out! If you are looking for all around good ideas that can be easily adapted to a multitude of purposes and projects, this just isn't the book. While pretty to look at, I was disappointed from a practical point of view. I was going to sell it - until I noted that 40 other readers obviously thought the same thing (but didn't take the time to write a review it seems) Your time and dollars would be well spent looking for something else.
The Title Captures the Book.......2005-05-15
I was given this book as a gift and have found it to be full of great ideas. The cards vary in their technical difficulty, however even the ones that take a few more minutes are worth the effort. In this day and age when people can go on-line and send a greeting card over the internet, these cards send an extra special message to the receiver. I used many materials that I had on hand and those that I needed were easy to find. My children enjoyed helping with some of the cards and still love to look page by page at the projects. I have also given this book to several friends and they have commented on the beautiful design of the book and the projects. Keep them coming!
Great ideas for beginner and advanced, thanks again, Heidi!.......2005-05-13
After purchasing Heidi's "Simply Beautiful Beading", I couldn't wait for this book. I wasn't disappointed. Great ideas - some simple, some more advanced. Directions are clear, nice templates, clever embellishments. I was even able to use some of her techniques in demonstrations I gave. I'm looking forward to her next book! Highly recommend.
Awesome ideas!.......2005-05-12
I bought this book for my mother who loves to do crafts. In reading the book, I see that there are many projects that I can do myself. I think the ideas are fresh, the pages are colorful and the author simply knows how to market her talent. Great job and thanks for a great gift!
some clever, some fill.......2005-04-02
This book has some clever ideas but not enough to warrant "50 quick and easy" projects. There are a dozen or so that are quite fussy and seemingly without purpose, like the What's cooking? card, the beehive card, tropical escape, and the blue jeans card. The Wild kingdom card message is supposed to be Run wild, Stand tall, Be strong. I send cards for thanks yous, get wells, and thinking of yous plus the usual holidays and can think of no time when a zebra or giraffe theme would have been appropriate. That's what I mean by filler. With some stretch you could possibly actually use them. One thing to watch out for in this book is how much money you can end up spending on tools and materials. Many of the ingredients are of the store-bought kind, like vellum, stamps, and letter stickers, not 'found' things from around the house.
A greeting card book with more clever and less filler and expense would have garnered this a five star rating.
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Marbling is simple, from floating the paint to rinsing and drying the finished creation. Learn to choose and mix colors, produce a range of patterns, and work with paper, fabric, and other materials. “A good selection for public library crafts collections.”—Library Journal.
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Holiday Paper Crafts from Japan contains easy-to-follow instructions for making seventeen unique seasonal crafts inspired by washi, the beautiful, traditional paper handmade by artisans throughout Japan. Color photographs show finished projects, as well as imaginative ways for displaying the finished crafts.
Holiday Paper Crafts from Japan includes such original projects as gift boxes, ornaments, poinsettia and angel decorations, calendar magnets, wreaths, stars, and many more! Unleash your inner crafter and discover the wonderful world of washi!
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Stenciling is one of the easiest ways to add a personal touch to handmade cards that are sure to be treasured by recipients. The 18 projects in Stenciling & Embossing Greeting Cards by Judith Barker showcase a wide range of styles, occasions, and skill levels. Most are relatively easy, though, and the excellent instructions--complete with individual step-by-step color plate--help ensure that anyone really can achieve these designs. Each project also features a photocopy-ready stencil pattern that can be enlarged and cut out, or choose a readymade stencil for even easier crafting. Embellishments include various paints, glitter, embossing, cutouts, even polymer clay and shrink plastic. A good resource list rounds out this nice presentation. --Amy Handy
Customer Reviews:
The title of this book is "RIGHT ON".........2001-07-08
I have watched stenciling and dry embossing on many craft shows and wanted to give it a try. This book helped me to do it quite simply and to create some great looking cards. Each card project has a list of the supplies you will need including stencil cream colors and gives you the name of the stencil company, item number of the stencil and where to purchase them. Each sample has step-by-step instructions -- both written and a picture of that step. At the end of each project they show you the card finished. ALL in color. I highly recommend this book to someone who wants easy to follow instructions, a great "visual" of each step and a look at how your finished card is going to look.
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Dozens of delightful new adventures for paper crafters! Clear assembly instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams make it fun and easy to create a host of charming paper projects: "wobblers," "bouncers," dancing dollies, stand-up faces, special occasion masks, Santa Claus, hook-on hangers, and many more. 349 illustrations.
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Customer Reviews:
Getting Started With Decoupage-My Experience.......2000-08-14
As a beginner, it is always helpful to have a good source of information when it comes to arts and crafts, and it is especially true with decoupage. I found this book both interesting and easy to follow, explaining the basics in a friendly manner, and then as I built up my confidence (and my pictures!) it explained more techniques to give each picture a look which is impossible to ignore. All in all, this book is a treasure and I recomend it to any beginners.
Book Description
• Make coordinated invitations, decorations, and more for imaginative birthdays, weddings, and events
• Fabric paper sheets are the hot new thing in crafting
• Fun for kids and adults
Combine the color and richness of fabric with the flexibility of paper to make dozens of exciting, easy projects! Michael Miller Memories invented a special process that stiffens fabric into a paperlike sheet, perfect for scrapbooking, book covers, altered books, and other crafting. Introduced to the crafting industry recently, fabric paper is now a national sensation! Available in tons of great designs, it can be embellished using an ordinary computer printer for millions of possibilities. Now the innovator who created the product shows crafters everywhere how to use it to make fantastic party ensembles, scrapbook pages,, three-dimensional art, and much, much more. Fabric paper is fab!
Book Description
Everything you need to form your own LLC!
Forming a limited liability company gives you the best of two business worlds -- the informality and tax benefits of a partnership or sole proprietorship and the personal protection from business debts of a corporation.
Form Your Own Limited Liability Company provides you with the step-by-step instructions and forms you need to form an LLC in your state, without the expense of hiring a lawyer. This bestseller covers how to:
*choose a valid LLC name
*prepare and file articles of organization
*set up a member-run or manager-run LLC
*take care of ongoing legal and tax paperwork
The 4th edition has been carefully revised and updated to reflect the latest IRS tax rules for LLCs, and now provides helpful checklists throughout. It also provides the most recent changes in all 50 states' laws. The forms you need are included as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.
Customer Reviews:
Form it!.......2007-07-30
This book is well laid out, gives you short cuts to critical information and does not 'preach'. It evaluates any possible ambiguities and basically holds your hand through the whole process. It has references and resources for every state and covers all possible variations of ownership and management. It was easy for me to find the critical steps relevant to my situation. It is a 'general' reference so you do have to figure what you need, but that is easily achieved with the way the book is formatted.
I started a Nevada based company using this book and found it well worth the money.
Start an LLC, make loads of money and live a good life, this book will get you started.
Clear and concise.......2007-02-13
In our case, this book was more of a help with planning than providing the actual legal forms necessary to legally form an LLC. Here's why, in our state, if you have internet access and a printer, it's very simple. All you need to do is fill out one on-line form provided by the state, print it, write a check for the fee, mail it, and wait.
What a book like this does is give you confidence that it is really just that simple. There are plenty of services on the internet, including services advertised on the website of the publisher, NoLo, that want to charge quite a bit more to do the work for you - or I'm sure you can find a local attorney who will also do the work for you, probably for an even higher fee. Maybe that's what you need, but for our small business, we found our startup money better spent on marketing and sales promotion than legal fees.
The one thing that was missing for me in this book, thus only 4 stars, was any discussion on LLC location. We needed additional research to satisfy our questions here.
Finally, we were able to use one of the legal forms on the CD as a template for our LLC operating agreement between members. That was handy and important, though in our state not a required document to form an LLC.
A Lot of Information about this new Business Model.......2006-03-03
A limited liability company is a relatively recent addition to the traditional forms of companies. It has some fo the advantages of a corporation, and the tax advantages of a partnership, sole proprietorship or corporation depending on the desires of the owners. It is not suitable for all organizations, but if you are considering one, here is the place to start.
If you go to an attorney to get him to set up an limited liability corporation, he will ask you a bunch of questions, write down the answers and get his secretary or paralegal to type these answers into their standard LLC form on their word processor. She will then press the print button and you get billed for a thousand dollars or so.
Anthony Mancuso is a corporations attorney licensed to practice law in California. He decided to take his standard corporate form and put it out in the form of a book. In the book he will ask you a bunch of questions, taking the time to point out the alternatives (that a lawyer probably doesn't do unless asked. You then take his standard corporation form (supplied on a CD) and fill in the answers. Files these with the appropriate offices and you have a corporation for only the filing fees the state charges.
Well, maybe it's not quite that easy. The LLC is a new form of business. I'd suggest that you read and consider the forms contained here, but then I'd have an attorney in your state review them, just to be sure.
Form Your Own Limited Liability Company.......2006-01-17
Straight to the point book, could possibly have more examples of Articles pertaining to Non-profit organizations.
Gave me the facts I needed to NOT create an LLC.......2005-08-08
This is a good book on the subject, with thorough coverage of the topic and prose aimed at the nonlawyer. In my situation a corporation was a better choice, and the book helped me come to that conclusion.
Book Description
More and more professionals are forming limited liability companies (LLCs) to take advantage of their many benefits. LLCs provide partners with a corporate-style liability shield, protecting them from personal responsibility for the company's debts and obligations.
This book explains LLCs in detail, helping readers to fully understand what an LLC is and how they can benefit from one. Topics covered in this book include:
* What is an LLC?
* What types of companies can become an LLC?
* Advantages and disadvantages of forming an LLC
* Converting an existing business into an LLC
* The basics of LLC membership
* The importance of an operating agreement
* Conducting and managing an LLC
* Special tax considerations
The CD-ROM contains Articles of Organization forms that can be used in most states to register an LLC. The forms are provided in MC Word and PDF formats for use on a Windows-based PC.
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A step-by-step guide to forming a limited liability company in the state of California. Discusses pros and cons, makes entity comparisons with other forms of doing business. Considers federal and state tax angles. All needed forms are included in appendices.
Customer Reviews:
LLC California.......2004-07-20
Very helpful with an LLC in California. Insightful information as to California Codes and structural composition of the limited liability company.
While ongoing affairs are not covered, that is the beauty of the LLC. Resolutions, meetings of shareholders and managers are not required to maintain limited liability characteristics.
Solid, no nonsense advice on forming a California LLC.......2002-12-03
I found this book helpful and time-saving. In general, it provides an overview of the limited liability company format, making entity comparisons between LLCs, corporations, and partnerships. It also focuses on specific California issues, such as California (as well as federal) tax angles. The appendices furnish an array of useful forms, some not directly related to LLC formation, but important in the larger business context. Included are state of California Articles of Organization for LLC formation, a model operating agreement, sample minutes of the members' first organizational meeting, an application for reservation of name, a preorganization subscription agreement, a bill of sale agreement, and a medical and dental reimbursement plan. Finally, membership certificates are appended as well and will do the job, but since these are photocopies, most people will want to order fancy custom-printed membership certificates from one of the companies supplying them. Almost all of these items can be tracked down by the persistent but prove especially handy in this one-stop format. One exception is the detailed operating agreement provided, which is invaluable and worth the price of the book alone. I could not have created this essential document on my own without this model. The step-by-step instructions, with filled-in forms as examples, and the appended form archives considerably speeded up the process of formation of my California LLC, if not "before the ink dries!" as the title asserts.
This book was published before the ink dried..........2002-03-06
This is an incomplete book that covers only the basics of "forming" a LLC. Not "maintaining"! I bought this book hoping to learn how to protect my business from lawsuits when litigants try to "pierce the corporate veil". Unfortunately there's NO talk about the formalities of maintaining the LLC. No talk about NOT commingling personal expenses with LLC expenses. No talk about setting up a separate LLC bank account. No talk about having a separate business phone line. No talk about having your web site registered in the name of the LLC. And where's the talk about sufficiently capitalizing the LLC relative to the level of business it generates? Failure to start the LLC with enough capital can make you personally liable to lawsuits. A dime a dozen are agents, lawyers and authors that try to make a buck off of you by getting you incorporated "before the ink dries". Just once I'd like to see someone who goes the whole nine yards by telling the WHOLE story about incorporating. The body of this book is 92 pages long followed by some forms...
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A step-by-step guide to organizing a limited liability company in the state of Michigan. Discusses pros and cons, makes entity comparisons with other forms of doing business (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation). Considers federal and state tax angles. All needed forms are included in appendices and on our web site. Completely revised and updated second edition.
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A step-by-step guide to forming a limited liability company in the state of Ohio. Discusses pros and cons, makes entity comparisons with other forms of doing business. Considers federal and state tax angles. All needed forms are included in appendices.
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