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Iris Folding (Craft In Motion)
Techniques for Card Making and Scrapbooking

by Eileen Goddard



      Ever since the crafty Dutch started using their patterned envelopes to make patterns akin to the iris of a camera, people all over the place have been coming up with their own special twist on the idea. In this book are ideas not only for cards, but for scrapbook pages, too, and it makes more use of the basic design of a shaped aperture with a pattern behind it than the Forte books. You don't even need envelopes...

All sorts of papers can be pressed into service to make the patterns in here, as well as a range of easily available embellishments of the sort that many crafters already have. Look for glitter, wire, buttons, stickers, gems and beads, and you have enough to get cracking. I like this in a craft book, as no vast outlay is required. Large, handsome photos explain the technique in true Search Press style so that the family pet can probably understand them, and additional extras abound. How useful it is to include a page about matching colorways for a more pleasing result, and look, no gallery! All the cards in here have patterns, even if they don't all have instructions. Make up the ones that have, and then you will know enough - honestly - to try the rest. There is a lot of choice for all kinds of events. Patterns include fairy princess, rainbow butterfly, golf ball in the rough, Halloween with bats and pumpkins, car driving at top speed and - my favorite - a tiger. A lot of these are suitable for men (hooray) so this is going to be a popular book with exasperated crafters fed up with flowers and general girliness. The best iris folding I have seen yet.

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The Book

Search Press
December 2005
Paperback
1844481050
Non Fiction/Crafts
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2006
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