Everyone runs short of time at the holidays, but busy crafters can easily squeeze in dozens of extra projects with the quick and easy ideas in Michele Thompson's Two-Hour Christmas Crafts. The slightly overcrowded but well-photographed pages are crammed with ornaments, stockings, candlesticks, topiaries, wreaths, decorative boxes and bottles, picture frames, centerpieces, card holders, lamp shades, guest towels, and more--some nicely glitzy, some quaintly country, some romantically Victorian.

Directions are quite brief and occasionally too superficial, but most are adequate for these fairly simple projects, and patterns are included where necessary. Beginners can seek further help from the general instructions section, which helps clarify the basics of decoupage, fabric painting, wirework, polymer clay, and other common techniques. More advanced crafters will appreciate the quantity of pretty projects they can whip up--often in far less than two hours. --Amy Handy

Book Description
Two hours is all you need to craft any of these more than 200 holiday projects. Includes a Paper Angel Garland, Snowman Clay Pin, Chenille Christmas Stocking, and more. “Complete instructions, patterns, and material lists for each project....Inexpensive, easy-to-make designs.... Will provide a holiday season to remember.”—Country.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

It may be hard to believe, but you can make a boxwood and lemon-leaf wreath, an organdy Christmas stocking, or any of 198 other festive decorations in two hours or less! The ease and limited cost of every creative design will enable you to try a whole array of imaginative techniques. Welcome Santa into the living room by setting out a cookie-filled plate edged with festive motifs drawn in metallic gold pen. Trim the tree with a country-style copper-winged finial angel and a bright gold beaded snowflake ornament, then stitch up a collection of stockings that will put you in the holiday spirit every time you see them. String a paper angel garland along a staircase railing, hang a floppy ribbon wreath on a wall--there's almost no end to what you can do!

SYNOPSIS

Two hours is all you need to craft any of the more than 200 holiday projects in this collection. Solve all your Christmas decorating and gift-giving needs with a Paper Angel Garland, Moss Star, Snowman Clay Pin, Chenille Christmas Stocking, Burgundy Lampshade, Boxwood and Lemon Leaf Wreath, Grapevine Christmas Tree, Velvet Gift Box, Pinecone Kissing Ball, Christmas Cookie Plate, Tole-Painted Frame, Berry Topiary, Aroma Bags, and Satin Tassel Pillow. Perfect for busy and enthusiastic crafters! ". . . make handcrafted presents and lovely decorations for your home."—-Crafts & Things.