ideas not always broken down into steps, some abstract themes .
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
Papercraft inspirations is a magazine based on paper crafts, mainly card making with the occasional part relating to other things like tags and scrap booking.
This magazine is monthly and costs £3.65 and as long as I've been buying it, has always come with a free gift of some sort. It has varied between embellishments, ribbon, stickers, papers and ideas booklets.
The magazine is always filled with plenty of inspiration for cards on a variety of themes, including major seasonal ones. This month's has card ideas for Art Deco styles using glass painting techniques, butterfly cards, cards for dads (and men), flower based designs, birthday cards, good luck, new baby, retirement and peel off cards.
The magazine also always includes a section on what is new, with a focus on new products and embellishment ranges, competitions and give-aways to add to your stash of crafting goodies, a directory of stockists, letters and cards from readers and a section where readers can ask for advice on any crafting/carding issues they have.
The magazine is laid out fairly well and is always lovely and colourful, although there are a lot of adverts in it. For each set of themed ideas, there is a shopping list so you can make sure you have everything needed. Most of the projects have step-by-step instructions but some of the simpler ones rely on you being able to work out how to make it from the picture. While this isn't great for beginners, it is the easier projects that don't have instructions so should be managable.
The projects use a variety of techniques and are at different ability levels, so there is challenge for the more experienced card maker.
I have to say, it isn't my favourite card magazine, I have bought better. I tend to buy this one if it has a theme I need inspiration for, or a freebie that I know I can use. But it is good as a source of inspiration and doesn't cost too much considering the potential value of the free gifts.
