Books with author Marie Browning

Zentangle is a relaxing and rewarding process that allows all ages to create artistic designs with repetitive patterns (tangles). Enjoy the experience that tangling brings. Drawing simple tangles can be done anywhere and no 'artistic' talent is needed. The process helps anyone get in touch with life, solve problems, turn mistakes into positives, be innovative and become more creative. Add touches of color for brilliance and inspiration.

Marie Browning pushes the envelope of Zentangle (R) into the living dimension of color. Using easy to follow steps, Marie illustrates over 40 new tangles.More than simply coloring regions of a tangle design, this book offers lessons which enable even the novice artist to use a Tombow Dual Brush pen to color 48 delightful Zentangle animals, plants and flowers.

With easy-to-use polymer clay and these exciting projects kids can experience the creative pride of making their own beautiful crafts. Colorful photos show how to do it all, with the basics from safety to supplies to techniques covered. Instructions explain how to condition the clay, mix colors, use additives, and shape the polymer. There’s even a special section to guide parents and teachers. The super-cool effects youngsters can create include marbling, painting the clay, and image transfer. Best of all, no kiln is required, because polymer hardens in an ordinary oven. Everyone will have fun fashioning these beads, jewelry (such as an African mask pin), imitation scrimshaw, covered buttons, picture frames, game boards, and more.

Beautifully strong, yet with smooth and translucent surfaces, vellum and parchment have long been the papers of choice for wedding invitations and flyleaves in books. Their fine qualities also work wonderfully for crafting and really stand up to intricate piercing, cutting, and folding. A well-respected artist and designer presents a variety of techniques from image transfers and stamping to embossing and flower pressing for a dimensional look; the elegant and classic projects include cards, containers, lanterns, and other decorations. Edge notepaper with borders inspired by antique lace and make lampshades that glow warmly under the light, cornucopia sachets, framed nature prints, window and woven cards, three-panel luminarias, a foldout book, and incandescent star ornaments. The design possibilities are practically unlimited!

Time for some good, clean fun with dozens of safe soap projects for kids ages 8-12. Using safe, readily-available ingredients in melt-and-pour recipes, along with a variety of tantalizing fragrances, additives, and colorants, kids will have a blast making molded bar and liquid soap, bath fizzies and salts, bubble baths, body powders, lip glosses, and more. Work with yummy scents such as chocolate, bubble gum, strawberry, watermelon, and coconut, and create sparkled, marbled, and confetti effects. Make adorable pie soaps that smell like real desserts, soap lollies, soaps with built-in sponges, mystery soaps with treasures inside, ladybug-shaped soap on a rope, dinosaur-egg surprise fizzies, and more. Suggestions for packaging let you turn your projects into great gifts.

New in PaperWith easy-to-use polymer clay and more than 100 exciting projects kids can experience the creative pride of making their own beautiful crafts. Colorful photos and very simple instructions show how to do it all: condition the clay, mix colors, use additives, shape the polymer, and work safely. There's even a special section to guide parents and teachers. The super-cool effects youngsters can create include marbling, painting the clay, and image transfer. Best of all, no kiln is required, because polymer hardens in an ordinary oven. Everyone will have fun fashioning these beads, jewelry, imitation scrimshaw, picture frames, and game boards.

Time for some good, clean fun with dozens of safe soap projects for kids ages 8-12. Using safe, readily-available ingredients in melt-and-pour recipes, along with a variety of tantalizing fragrances, additives, and colorants, kids will have a blast making molded bar and liquid soap, bath fizzies and salts, bubble baths, body powders, lip glosses, and more. Work with yummy scents such as chocolate, bubble gum, strawberry, watermelon, and coconut, and create sparkled, marbled, and confetti effects. Make adorable pie soaps that smell like real desserts, soap lollies, soaps with built-in sponges, mystery soaps with treasures inside, ladybug-shaped soap on a rope, dinosaur-egg surprise fizzies, and more. Suggestions for packaging let you turn your projects into great gifts.

The year is 1850. The Revolutionary War has long since come to an end and the industrial revolution is beginning to build steam, overturning the old ways of home and hearth as it gains momentum. In a desperate hour, in the back alleys of Boston, a group of twelve castoff children come together to care for each other. Plagued by the unanswered questions surrounding their past and grief for loved ones lost, the children attempt to come to terms with the bitter truths that have defined their life thus far. Feeling forsaken, faced with prejudice, hostile gangs and in the hardest winter on record, the children find themselves on the ragged edge. Until a series of mysterious events begin taking place, making them feel that they are not as alone and helpless as they might have thought.

With easy-to-use polymer clay and these exciting projects kids can experience the creative pride of making their own beautiful crafts. Colorful photos show how to do it all, with the basics from safety to supplies to techniques covered. Instructions explain how to condition the clay, mix colors, use additives, and shape the polymer. There’s even a special section to guide parents and teachers. The super-cool effects youngsters can create include marbling, painting the clay, and image transfer. Best of all, no kiln is required, because polymer hardens in an ordinary oven. Everyone will have fun fashioning these beads, jewelry (such as an African mask pin), imitation scrimshaw, covered buttons, picture frames, game boards, and more.