This year let craft gurus Alan Gear and Barry Freestone be your crafting hosts as you plan and prepare for the holidays. This book contains everything you need to know to create a range of wonderful items as gifts, and to decorate the tree, table and home to welcome your guests.
Using seasonal materials and simple techniques, create great presents for family and friends, exciting cards, homemade wrapping paper, seasonal wreaths, garlands, tree decorations, table items and mouthwatering candies and desserts. Each project has clear instructions and is illustrated with step-by-step photographs and templates, if required. Packed with festive and creative ideas, Christmas Crafts is the definitive guide to creating the perfect Christmas.

Alan D Gear and Barry L Freestone have over 20 years of experience in glass painting and other crafts and have developed many unique techniques to create great effects in limited time. They run popular courses in crafts and have produced a series of training videos. They have made numerous television appearances in America and Canada on shows such as Aleene's Creative Living and Sue Warden's Craftscapes, and are the well-known hosts of Alan & Barry's Craft Choice on Ideal World Television in the UK. Alan and Barry live in Peterborough.