Craftside

$2.99 Kindle Ebook Deals on Craft Books! April 25th-May 11th, 2014

Got an Amazon Kindle? Want to grab some great craft books for just $2.99 each?

Between April 25th - May 11th you can get the following list of ebooks for just $2.99!

And looking for a great snack to make and then munch on while reading your new craft books? Scroll down for a healthy chocolate meringue recipe.

Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects

Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters

 

Creative Cloth Doll Faces: Using Paints, Pastels, Fibers, Beading, Collage, and Sculpting Techniques

Steampunk Style Jewelry: Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings

Adventures in Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books

---------------------------------------

Check out this recipe for chocolate walnut meringues from the book Don't Break Your Heart Cookbook. 

Walnuts, rich in omega-3s called ALAs, promote heart health in a variety of ways.

They reduce bad cholesterol and decrease platelet clotting and inflammation.

Walnuts are rich in magnesium and potassium, minerals that help maintain healthy blood pressure.

 

 

More about the Race Point cookbook:

Don't Break Your Heart Cookbook: Reduced Sodium Recipes for a Healthy Heart - Flavoring Food with Herbs, Spices, and Fresh Wholesome Ingredients

by Shara Aaron, MS, RD and Monica Bearden, RD, LD

Learn how to select, cook and flavor your food for heart healthy, delicious meals the whole family will enjoy.

Nutrient rich ingredients full of flavor were the criteria for recipe selection. Saturated fat and sodium is limited, but what makes this book unique is that the recipes will make use of the growing body of research showing that prevention and wellness can be achieved with the use of heart healthy fats, fiber, certain vitamins and minerals, and phytochemicals.

 

Each chapter focuses on an ingredient or collection of ingredients and their evidence for heart health and wellness. Nutrition facts for each recipe are included, along with sidebars and tidbits of information on the ingredients regarding their healthfulness as well as tips for buying and cooking these ingredients in general.

Amazing altered book art from Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids

My jaw dropped when I flipped to this page in Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids that features an amazing piece of book art. I was about to say that this artist really thought outside the box, but what is more accurate to say they thought outside the book!

More about the Rockport book:

Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids

by Beth Tondreau

Adhering to certain layout and grids standards and principles is important for any job from brochures, to annual reports, to posters, to websites, to publications. However, knowing how to bend the rules and make certain grids work for the job at hand takes skill.

This book outlines and demonstrates basic layout/grid guidelines and rules through 100 entries including choosing a typeface, striving for rhythm and balance with type, combining typefaces, using special characters and kerning and legibility. These essentials of grid design are critical to the success of any job.

Beth Tondreau owns and serves as creative director of BTD Design in New York. Prior to establishing BTD in 1985, she was design director of Viking/Penguin.

How to make a recycled file folder book by Jeannine Stein

A while ago I posted a fun tutorial on how to make a recycled file folder book by Jeannine Stein author of the two book-making books Adventures In Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books and Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials. And today, I have the honor of sharing a video tutorial on how to make the recycled file fold book that Jeannine and I shot together.

More about Jeannine's two books:

Adventures In Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books

and

Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials

 

Boston Comic Con Big Book Giveaway and how to make an alphabet zine

In honor Boston Comic Con this weekend, we are giving away a HUGE pile of Quayside Publishing books! The contest runs until Sunday, August 4 at 11:59 pm. Enter here:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

In addition, if you are attending Boston Comic Con, two of our Quayside team will be at the show live-tweeting and giving more goodies away on Sunday, so be sure to follow their tweets using the hashtag #QBCC to win!

 

The Crazy Boston Comic Con Giveaway includes: 

Walter Foster's How to Draw Zombies

Rockport's Science Fiction and Fantasy Art and Creating Comics

Fair Wind's Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day!

Quarry's Drawn In, 1000 Steampunk Creations, 1000 Incredible Costume & Cosplay Ideas (2 editions), Drawing Comics Lab

Aurum's Terry Nation: The Man Who Invented the Daleks, and a certificate for an advanced copy of Magic Words: the Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore 

a small sewing kit, two coasters, and decorative pirate garland from Lilla Rogers.

Along with this great giveaway you can get yourself in the running for today, I also have a tutorial on how to make an alphabet zine from the book Drawing Comics Lab: 52 Exercises on Characters, Panels, Storytelling, Publishing & Professional Practices (one of the books in the prize package!)

Answer the question: What is your favorite costume or fantasy character?

If making a zine or a book has been on your to-do list, this alphabet zine tutorial from Drawing Comics Lab is just the project to get you started. After all, the alphabet is the first step to reading and writing.

Click on these pages from Drawing Comics Lab to enlarge and read the full tutorial an dpage layout on how to make an alphabet zine.

More about the Quarry book:

Drawing Comics Lab: 52 Exercises on Characters, Panels, Storytelling, Publishing & Professional Practices

by Robyn Chapman

Do you dream of becoming a comic artist? Drawing Comics Lab covers all of the basic steps necessary to produce a comic, from the first doodle to the finished publication. This easy-to-follow book is designed for the beginning or aspiring cartoonist; both children and adults will find the techniques to be engaging and highly accessible. Featured artists include: - James Sturm - Tom Hart - Jessica Abel - Matt Madden - Eddie Campbell - And many others Start your comic adventures today with Drawing Comics Lab!

Robyn Chapman has studied cartooning at two of the medium’s finest institutions, receiving her BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and her MFA from The Center for Cartoon Studies. In 2005 she became The Center for Cartoon Studies’ first fellow, and spent the next five years as their program coordinator and a faculty member. She has built and managed the curriculum for their successful Create Comics and Cartooning Studio workshops. Her cartooning courses, workshops, and lectures have brought her to classrooms at The New School, Wellesley College, The University of Iowa, and the 92nd Street Y. She lives in New York City. Visit her online at http://www.un-pop.com.

     

Mixed-media pocket travel journal video tutorial by Jeannine Stein

For your crafting viewing pleasure today, I have a fun video tutorial on how to make a mixed-media pocket travel journal that includes a turkish map fold pop-up. I had the pleasure of shooting this video with my friend and author of Adventures In Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books and Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials, Jeannine Stein.

Here are the step by step directions for the mixed-media pocket travel journal:

And if you need more great book making projects and tutorials, grab yourself copies of her books:

Adventures In Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books

and

Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials