Marie Browning is the best in her field in my opinion. She has mastered many crafts from greeting card making and scrapbooking to soap making, casting for crafters, decorating pots, jars, gift baskets, craft lettering made easy, making purses with pizzazz, creating journals, albums and more, hand decorating paper, fabulous gift wraps, decoupage, etc. If you want the best in these areas get her books: they're well written, easy to understand and follow and have good, clear instructions with color photos and where necessary, good patterns and templates.