how-to: tiny tophat

Ann Wood shares how she makes her itty bitty tophats for her glorious birds. Link to tutorial.

diy: wedding menu wheel

Killer idea! Link to tutorial.

two paper flower tutorials

Lynsey wrote in to share her friends paper flower tutorials – one : two.

paper flowers

how-to: make a paper wine bag

Nifty little packaging idea. Link to tutorial.

Butterfly wedding cards

Love these vintage ephemera butterfly escort cards at project wedding [via a field journal]

ButterflyEscortCards

how-to: fireworks cards

The crafty peeps over at Martha’s Craft Dept have come up with with a ripper here. Great card idea. Link to tutorial.

book: urban paper

Urban Paper: 26 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build by Matt Hawkins. Published by How; Pap/DVD edition (April 21, 2009).

What a fantastic book – chock full of paper toy designs to cut out and make (with a DVD to print out more once the ones in the book are all used up.)

Along with the instructions and templates to make the toys in this book, there is a wonderful insight into the makers behind these ingenious folded paper toy designs. As well as the templates to make the designs featured in this book, there is also a section on how to design your own paper toys, and some background from the designers on their design process – as well as a fascinating pictorial process on the designs – from the initial drawing to the 3D mock up to making the flat design in illustrator.

With this book I discovered a new craft but also a whole slew of new designers and makers – as well as the ‘online paper toy phenomenon’ that I had only really glimpsed before. (check out moytoy, nice paper toys and custom paper toys – Matt Hawkins the authors own website has heap of freebie paper toy printable templates – rocket toy , Princess kitty, and this blank toy design are just a few.

how-to: paper plaiting!

WOWZERS. I’m filing this one under “extreme crafting”. That’s a whole lot of paper cuts waiting to happen. Link to tutorial.

how-to: make your own scratch tickets

Ingenious idea and thanks for sharing. Link to tutorial, via Folding Trees.

recycled art journal

creative kismet made these lovely journals using paper grocery bags.

paper journal

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