Step-By-Step Cardmaking

With these instructions and color photographs showing the complete process for making 30 unique card designs, anyone can achieve professional-looking results at home. Design themes range from holidays (White Christmas, Cheery Easter Chicken) to romantic (Dove Love, Hawaiian Holiday, and Heart's Delight) and specialty cards for all occasions (Sail Away, Home Sweet Home, Sunny Days). Topics include using papers, beads, sequins, rubber stamps, wire and other materials, as well as folding, tearing, detail cutting, embossing and stenciling. Every step in the card-making process is explained and pictured, so crafters can achieve outstanding results every time.

Sammy Starling was once a notable villain, but for some years he's been a semi-respectable businessman with two passions: His beautiful young wife and his stamp collection. And now, it seems, he's a victim: Someone has kidnapped Eva Starling and is sending ransom demands in envelopes with rare and extremely valuable stamps. The stamps feature the likeness of the young Queen Victoria, to whom Eva bears a startling resemblance, and they have been rendered worthless. Dead, one might say. The message is not lost on Sammy. What's not lost on Detective Chief Inspector Brock is that Sammy nearly cost Brock his job, back in the day, and took at least one good man's life.

Making Greeting Cards with Rubber Stamps

Gathers stamping techniques and thirty hand-stamped greeting card projects that lend themselves to personalization and improvistation.

Travis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit does, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart. Only it's not McGee's heart that's in danger. Because a syndicate killer has put a contract on McGee. A killer who knows something about stamps . . . and even more about McGee.

Hit List

He's a passionate stamp collector who likes art and dogs and who shows up for jury duty when he's called. He lives in Manhattan and, when packages of approval stamps come from dealers all over the country, he goes through the stamps in a couple of days, selects the ones he wants and returns the ones he doesn't along with a check for those he's selected and a handwritten note for the dealer. What's difficult to reconcile is what Keller does for a living. He's a hit man. Less euphemistically: he kills people for money.