Books published by Design Originals

This book is packed with madly inspired ideas for repurposing the iconic glass jar into modern gifts, decorations, storage and party trimmings. Let crafting expert Ana Araujo show you all of the wonderful things you can do with a mason jar besides canning food. Ana offers step-by-step guidance on easy-to-learn craft techniques.

Happy Campers is a colouring book for adults that contains 30 amazing art activities, all designed to take you on a delightful camping adventure involving patterning, shading and colouring. Each vibrantly detailed illustration of fun on the open road offers an easy way to de-stress, while allowing you to unleash the artist within.

Folk Art is a colouring book for adults that contains 30 amazing art activities involving patterning, shading and colouring. Each vibrantly detailed, charming and international folk illustration offers an easy way to de-stress, while allowing you to unleash the artist within.

Helps you create instantly recognisable toys, jewellery, wearables, and accessories, based on one of the most popular video games of all time. The author shows you how to quickly make real life versions of all your favourite Minecraft characters and game elements, using only a few basic craft supplies.

Helps you transform ordinary friendship bracelets from school memories to chic contemporary pieces that you'll be proud to wear. This title features dozens of stylish designs and easy techniques for making beautiful bracelets with embroidery, floss and hemp. It includes cool patterns for making chevrons, stripes, waves, diamonds, and more.

A Zendala is an inspired form of mandala that is drawn using tangles to fill each section of a circle. For centuries, mandala circles have been used to connect the spirit with the divine. In this edition, talented CZT artists share their secrets for creating sacred circle designs, and show how to add colour, resist, layers and more.

Bible journaling is the powerful and popular new way to engage with scripture through art. Complete Guide to Bible Journaling is your go-to guide to the latest lettering, drawing, painting and crafting techniques for bringing God's Word to life.

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Suitable for anyone who wants to get started in the craft, this book offers easy-to-follow directions that can get readers sewing with confidence, making repairs and creating new garments from scratch. It starts at the very beginning, showing how to choose a sewing machine and introducing the most basic techniques and shortcuts.

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Discover the esoteric power of the mandala with 30 relaxing and creative art activities, perfect for decorating with markers, gel pens, watercolors, or colored pencils.

Follow your heart and color your dreams, with 30 relaxing art activities designed to motivate your creativity and stimulate your spirit.

Enter a creative world of floral fantasy with 30 ready-to-color art activities in this inspiring coloring book for grown-ups, printed on high quality extra-thick paper.

Discover 30 vibrantly detailed art activities, offering ready-to-color mandala circles of whimsical animals, printed on high quality extra-thick paper.

A sequel to "Totally Tangled", this title includes pages that are jam-packed with Zentangle ideas, tips, projects and 60 new tangles.

Breathe life into your tangles with colour, using pencils and dual brush markers. Suitable for anyone who can hold a pen can create a Zentangle[registered], this title helps you learn new techniques and 48 tangles and borders.

Lets you make fabulous quilts quickly with the 10-minute block technique. This title features straight seams and curved line designs. It allows you to experiment with positive-negative blocks, discover layers of patterns and just have fun.

Presents creative monogram and pattern techniques in Zenspirations, offering ideas for filling boarders, edges and spaces with creative flourishes.

Macrame is easy to learn and requires no elaborate equipment or expensive materials. With savvy designs for jewellery, wearables, accessories, and home decor, this title shows how to make knotted creations using colourful macrame craft chords. It shows you how to make stylish rugs, plant hangers, lampshades, necklaces, bangles, purses, and more.

This book takes tangling beyond paper to create fashionable accessories and wearable art. Use the expanded workbook section to put all the knowledge you've gained about the Zentangle method into practice with draw-it-yourself tangles, shading practice and jewellery design exercises.