Corrie Beth Hogg

The first part of the book explains all the tools, materials, skills and techniques needed to create realistic paper plants. It has a lot of useful suggestions and detailed explanations that ensures that you don't run into any problems later on. Even if something goes wrong, the "When 'oops!' happens" section has it covered. The next part of the book consists of 30 plant projects, among them: african mask plant, swiss cheese vine, fish bone cactus, inch plant, oxalis (my favorite!) and the ever so popular Monstera deliciosa. In case you were wondering, they not only look realistic but their dimensions are also life-sized, even the big Monstera. A bonus projects section focuses more on creative ways to use, arrange and display your plants. The last part of the book contains the templates for all the projects (some of them need to to be enlarged) and a handy list of resources, all of them with their webpage addresses.

All in all, this is a fabulous book. The possibilities of what you can do with these plants are endless and coming up with your own templates and plant arrangements should be fairly easy after reading this book. Just keep in mind that these projects require a lot of cutting and assembling (specially if you want to create plants with a lot of leaves) and crafting these beauties requires more dedication than a quick tissue paper flower, but the results are more rewarding as well. Christine Han made an awesome job with the pictures in the book, they are so pretty I wouldn't mind framing a couple of them!. Make sure check the author's blog which has free DIY projects, some of them like the one's you will find in the book. *I read an eARC… (meer)