CONTENTS

GALLERY
Use the gallery for quick reference.

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

CARDS
The cards are only catergorized to create awareness for the technique, material or idea
under discussion. The number of the card corresponds with the page number


            BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES

1. Cover collage - black for a dramatic background

2. Simple collage - animal theme

3. Simply a feather - less is more!

4. Winter and fall - harmonizing your colour scheme

5. Threesome collage - design principle: repetition

6. Collage with rectangles - plant material

7. Collage with rectangles - layout: the rule of thirds
      IMPROVISATION

8. Christmas candles - pumpkin pip flames

9. Rooibos flowers - flowers made from rooibos tea bags

10. Wedding card - rings made from natural fibre

11. African bird - improvisation
      STAMPING

12. Gecko - assembling your own word stamp

13. Bon voyage - faux-leather technique

14. Big five - postage stamps and stamping onto cork

15. Elephant - stamping onto awkward surfaces

16. Bushman hunters - stamping onto leather and ostrich egg-shell

17. Guineafowl - stamping into paper clay

18. T-shirt - stamping into soot

19. Field guide's pocket - stamping onto fabric

20. Animal skin images - ultra thick embossing and stamp images

21. Embedded gecko - ultra thick embossing and seals
      DISTRESSING

22. Velskoen (leather shoe) - distressing

23. Parcel out of Namibia - distressing

24. Sweet melon pip flower - distressing by burning the edges

25. Africa - distressing by sanding

26. Africa out of the kitchen - antiquing wax wrap and aluminium foil
      SIMPLE PAPER PIERCING

27. Christmas baubles - simple paper piercing

28. African Christmas tree - simple paper piercing
      THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES

29. Leopard in full moon - 3D stamped paper image

30. Woman with clay pot - 3D paper image with templates

31. Dazed kudu - 3D paper image
      PAPER CLAY

32. Cowrey shell - using paper clay as a cement
      PRINTED FABRIC

33. Guineafowls in tall grass - working with printed fabric
      PAPER MOULDING

34. Gecko - paper moulding with a clay mould

35. Raku vase - paper moulding with a stamp image

36. Driepootpotjie - paper moulding with a homemade mould
      FRAMES

37. Framed still life - spray adhesive and embossing powder

38. Framed cheetah - slide mount and tissue paper

39. Framed guineafowl - slide mount with serviettes and beads

40. Wild dog puppy - suspended frame

41. Framed zebra skin - bleached and torn paper frame

42. Laced guineafowl feather - punched holes and laced frame
      HOUSEHOLD BLEACH

43. Simply dried veld grass - bleached paper as background

44. Elephant - embossed stamp image and bleach

45. African pot - bleach and coarse salt

46. Charging cheetah - stamping with bleach
      WIRE

47. Gifts - basic wire work

48. Guineafowl - working with wire and a jig
      POCKETS

49. Keepsakes from Namibia - translucent pocket

50. Keepsakes from Namibia - hessian pocket

51. Keepsakes from Namibia - chocolate mould as a shakerbox

52. Sandy keepsake - plastic bag as a shaker box
      LACÉ

53. Christmas tree - paper lace

54. Porcupine quill - using paper lace for weaving

55. Guineafowl feather - paper lace as a spine
      PRINTING

56. Skeleton leaf print - using natural material for a print

57. Guineafowl feather print - printing with feathers
      CREATING YOUR OWN CANVAS/BACKGROUND

58. Serendipity rectangle - creating your own background

59. Serendipity squares

60. Das Südwesterlied - "painting" with mica

61. Zebras - animal print with handmade paper

62. Cross: sympathy card - custom made handmade paper

63. Take note - making your own note paper
      PAPER PIERCING

64. Quills and stars - piercing for stitching

65. Pumpkin pips flower - making and aperture
      BLIND-EMBOSSING

66. Tracks - blind-embossing stencil with punch outs

67. African stars and stripes - blind-embossing with confetti stencil
      SAND

68. Skeleton leaf - sand and natural material

69. Shed snake skin - sand and natural material

70. Simple sand collage - sand and serviettes

71. Giraffe - sand, serviette and stamped image

72. Leopard tracks - sand and stamping onto serviette

73. African woman with wood - drawing lines with sand

74. Sandy tracks - sand and masking with punches

75. Guineafowl with studs - sand and embellishments

  ANIMAL PRINTS
  DIAGRAMS AND TEMPLATES