From tools, materials and techniques to sources of design inspiration and planning your color palette, this handy spiral-bound hard cover guide has the answers. Find 8 projects and 24 patterns to help you hone core skills while creating beautiful art, plus a Gallery section to supply plenty of inspiration.

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Turn Your Crafts into a Career Stop dreaming and start making it happen. This artist-to-artist manual gets you started making money with your crafts. It walks you through both the personal and business aspects of a career in crafting, so you and 39;ll know what to expect, and how to make the right moves. 128 pages with full color illustrations. Delphi Success Stories Read about other Delphi customers who turned their hobby into a profitable business. Find them at www.delphiglass.com/sellyourart .

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Fresh Ideas to Add Mosaics to Your Home This inspiring guide to glass mosaics explains it all. The easy-to-follow format presents basic tools, terms and techniques, along with helpful hints to get great results. You will learn all the basics for glass scoring, cutting and making tesserae (the small pieces used in mosaics). Each mosaic technique is followed with practical and beautiful home decor projects in full color, complete with patterns and instructions. Projects include wall clocks, plaques, trays, wall hangings, mosaic mirrors, decorative plates, tabletops, night stands, headboards and garden stones, Helpful hints and definitions of terminology are provided, with a special section devoted to translucent mosaics. A Delphi Favorite.

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Tile isn and 39;t just for the bathroom anymore, and home decor do-it-yourself adventurers like you will uncover all the basic techniques, plus exciting tricks and tools for creating unique tile motifs in The Tile Artist and 39;s Motif Bible. Every design features a color photo, instructions and advice on color variations. This lay-flat guide also features Icons indicating degree of difficulty and application technique for quick reference More than 400 photos, including step-by-step illustrations that demonstrate core techniques Easy-to-follow instructions for designs including seashells, birds, nursery motifs and flowers

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Best Seller. Use this inspirational book to create beautiful outdoor glass mosaic walkways. Includes a variety of full-size patterns and complete easy-to-follow instructions; from making patterns to pouring concrete, installation, and care. Now the original book gets even better as it celebrates its 5 year anniversary with this special edition featuring full-size patterns for all designs. Featured shapes includes 16 hexagon and 4 x 8 brick. Book by Bishop-Day.

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A Showpiece for Your Yard. A companion for the Bench Mold 8875, this book contains 6 full-size patterns for benches, and 9 companion designs using various stepping stone forms. Instructions and photos include how to mosaic the bench sides. One look at these beautiful projects and you will be inspired to decorate your garden with a functional and artistic mosaic stained glass showpiece.

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Best Seller. From the folks who brought you the runaway hit Tiffany Garden, comes book two full-size patterns for mosaic tables, stepping stones, and bricks. Features mosaic stepping stones and introduces mosaic tabletops. More than 20 designs in 14 round and 8 x 8 brick shapes. Complete instructions for beginning glass cutting, stepping stones and tabletop construction. Book by Bishop and Bishop-Day.

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Get both best-selling Tiffany Garden full-size mosaic pattern books. Includes full-size stained glass patterns with instructions to make 16 hexagons, 14 rounds, 8 squares and 4 x 8 brick stepping stones. A $26 Value. Pack includes two books, Tiffany Garden and Tiffany Garden II. Tiffany Garden Use this inspirational book to create beautiful outdoor glass mosaic walkways. Includes a variety of full-size patterns and easy-to-follow instructions. Featured shapes include 16 hexagon and 4 x 8 brick. Tiffany Garden II Use these full-size patterns to create mosaic tables, stepping stones and bricks. More than 20 designs in 14 round and 8 square shapes. Includes complete instructions for beginning glass cutting, stepping stone and tabletop construction. Table image below from Tiffany Garden II.

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Push your mosaic art to a new, creative level with 20 projects that use a number of unexpected materials. With easy-to-follow instructions and photographs, you can expand your artistic boundaries to combine traditional tile with handmade clay tiles, crushed glass, stained glass and mixed media elements. Projects range from a traditional mosaic wall hanging to an unexpected mandala. Let your imagination go wild.

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Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women Research by Craft Trends Magazine reveals that 89% of all crafters are women, and that they want to work in an environment conducive to creating their art. This invaluable and very special guide helps them achieve that goal, whatever their passion. It goes straight to the experts successful women who have made their mark in more than 10 different creative fields. These top designers and artisans offer insights gleaned from years of experience, reveal how they constructed their own creative spaces, and explain how the reader can make practical use of these decorating, organizational, and inspirational techniques as they go about designing their own work areas. Among the pertinent questions they answer Where did you like to work as a child? What and 39;s the most important thing about having your own place to work? Are women and 39;s creative spaces different from men and 39;s? How important is it for you to organize your work, and how do you do it? Do you listen to music when you work--and what kind? The featured designers include Wendy Addison, Dena Fishbein, Jill Schwartz, and Suze Weinberg and their fields range from paper crafts to gardening.

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