📚 Stamp Artistry: Enhancing Stamps with Beadwork, Carving, Collage, Etching, Fabric, Metalwork, Painting, Polymer Clay, Repousse, and More by Rice Freeman-Zachery (2003-11-01) Review

With projects ranging from beginner to expert, this inspiring book invites every reader to get started right away! Guest artists present new and exciting designs to wear (remember those great 'street shoes' at Linda Woods' Somerset Studio?!), to display, to remember - something for you, your home, your heart, your closet. Everyone will find something interesting or challenging, and the instructions and pictures are great. Warning: After you receive this book, the work will have to wait! Rice…

Received this book today from Revain.com and in a word, it's AWESOME! Trust me when I say the shelves are full of craft books, but this one is by far the best. It offers a variety of projects for all tastes and quick instructions for all skill levels. I haven't found a single project that didn't interest me (a rarity), so welcome the choice and the recommendations make each project doable for me. Thank you (I hope there will be Book II!) for this wonderful volume. I wish you much success.

This tutorial showcases some great projects by famous contemporary artists in the fields of embossing, clay, collage, etc. However, typographical errors distract from the step-by-step instructions. mind" in the arts and crafts branch, but is referred to as Zyron several times throughout the book. I noticed misspelled words like Dall instead of Doll and poor sentence structure. I don't blame the author, I blame the publisher for proofreading errors. This indicates a lack of knowledge and detail…