Jazzy Gift Baskets: Making and Decorating Glorious Presents

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 128 pages
• Published by: Sterling February 1, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1402744420
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1402744426
• Book Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Description
Decorate, create, and give with love—or start a successful home business: that’s what crafters can do with this jazzy, snazzy guide to putting together the perfect gift basket. Written by Marie Browning, author of the best-selling Jazzy Jars, it’s not only filled with a variety of techniques for decorating the baskets—painting, découpage, adding a no-sew fabric lining—but presents a wealth of ideas for selecting, assembling, and creatively packaging lovely gifts to place inside. Choose from more than two dozen themes for every occasion, including Celebration Baskets for life’s special moments; Thank You Baskets; Food Baskets, with ideas for preparing an entire meal; and many more.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Jazzy Gift Baskets: Making & Decorating Glorious Presents (Hardcover) I would have to say this book, unlike so many others, offers great ideas for modifying ordinary containers to create beautiful, unique receptacles for gift items. The author seems to be a jack-of-all-trades as she takes gifting to a whole new level. She not only enhances the baskets with paint, embellishments, weaving, floral design...etc., but she makes some of the gift products herself. The reader is offered a plethora of information from whitewashing baskets to manufacturing homemade soaps to be used as basket fillers. Her baskets are lovely and inspiring. My disappointment lies in the roadblocks I encountered in my attempt to purchase some of the items needed to re-create her baskets. I searched far and wide for a product she calls "floral foam," which will serve as an adhesive for the application of dried or silk flowers to a basket without that messy glue-gun string effect. I believe the author resides in the UK and her resource list suggests that her products originate there. My web resources came up short and I have yet to put her directions to the test. All in all, this book is a great purchase if you are looking for basket ideas. She certainly motivates the reader to take basket design one step further.