Creative Computer Crafts: 50 Fun and Useful Projects You Can Make with Any Inkjet Printer
reviewed by Robert Pritchett
Author: Marcelle Costanza http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/2326 No Starch Press Released: May 2006, Pages: 160 $25 USD, $33 CND, £18 GBP, 21 € EUR ISBN: 1593270682 Strengths: Shows how to do projects and provides templates to “make them so”, and has plenty of sources for resources without tying us to any particular app. Weaknesses: None found. |
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Creative Computer Crafts: 50 Fun and Useful Projects You Can Make with Any Inkjet Printer by Marcelle Costanza is an obvious labor of love kind of book. She loves to do arts and crafts, has been doing it for decades and has figured out how to make it pay for itself and she wasn’t to share the joys associated with how we too can “get creative” with certain materials and the magic of inkjet printers.
What she doesn’t do is tie her creativeness to any particular app. However, if you want to think this is just a front to get us to go to her website, you might be right. She has a website that parallels the book at CraftyPC.com
Some of these projects are really eye-openers; scratch off tickets, stemware shrink charms, rice bags for weddings, transparent bags, popup cards, pyramid boxes, matchbook mints? I liked the candy bar project and figure I might want to give that one a go. This book looks like a coffee-table kind of book because it is full of color and just invites us to want to pick it up and stroke the pages with our eyes. It is beautifully done.
Besides the 50 projects, there are 3 Appendices that provide websites, message boards, places to find hardware, software and crafting supplies and templates for some of the crafts.
If you would like to know how Marcelle Costanza got here from there, she tells u show and what tools of the trade she used over the years before she got to where she turned her hobby into cash. Now we can too. And she also shows where we can go to sell our wares.
Now where is that inkjet printer? We have some candywrappers to make!
