…compilation of tutorials
I like paper weaving and recycling, too, but I like it even better if all come together ;-)
This happens here: they had the inventive idea to glue some newspaper on beverage cartons and weave them with plastic strips to make a (non-waterproof!) vase from.
What a great idea!
Links:
Woven Newspaper Vase
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tags ‘weaving’ and ‘paper’
Entries with the tag ‘recycling’
Entries with the tags ‘weaving’, ‘paper’ and ‘recycling’
Another very dear friend sent me the link to the inventive technique on how to staple together little notebooks.
I tried it: It works great! And fast! And neat!
;-)
At any rate it is a really great idea that I’m glad to spread.
Playing cards could well serve as cover here ;-)
Links:
Staple together little notebooks (Tell me if you’ve seen this one before.)
Here at unikatissima:
Accordion-Style Playing Card Notebooks
more entries with the tag ‘books’
As said before I’m a city kid and don’t know anything about plants, but I found those seed tapes interesting anyhow: It seems that you only have to put them in the soil and then something happens.
Or something like that ;-))
I’d like to hear if you’ve made your own experiences!
Links:
Make Your Own Seed Tapes
Here at unikatissima:
Seed Starters
Garden Decorations
Jewelry for the Garden
I saw somewhere (unfortunately I don’t remember where) such a box, but it was flat while I wanted the actual box (not the flaps) to be of about 2 cm height.
So I made me a template myself ;-))
And that’s what you do:
(Click to enlarge)
That is the template.
Instruction for first box: Pasted paper
First print the template and cut it.
I wanted to have a Chinese box so I pasted the outside up with some Chinese newspapers that I stained with tea before (see links below).
Of course you can paste the paper up with gift wrapping, snippets from ads and so on, too.
I suggest to paste a second layer on the paper in any case to get it sturdier or to use thin cardboard.
When having pasted up all four flaps you can pre-fold the box. This way it will be easier to glue the tags.
Here is the glue setting.
You can see that I didn’t paste up the inside.
And that is the box in its full beauty ;-)
I suggest to let the glue set well because there will be some strain when you close the box and the tags can get unfixed.
Instruction for second box: Thin cardboard
After the first box I felt like making a box from thin cardboard.
The cardboard is from the wrapping of a pair of trousers I bought and I liked the colours of the printed picture.
So I put my printed and cut template on the cardboard, copied it and cut the cardboard along the lines.
I pre-folded the folding lines to get better folds.
Then I simply folded the box without glueing the tags.
The red arrow shows that there originates a gap.
Depending on what you want you can leave the box at that, the tags make sure that in spite of the gaps nothing will drop ;-)
Here I glue the tags to see what happens.
The box always got apart until I fastened it with an elastic.
The glue could set this way better.
And that is my second little box.
You can see at the edges that it is a properly closed box now ;-)
Links:
Here on this site:
Instruction for first box: Pasted paper
Instruction for second box: Thin cardboard
Template to print
Stain paper with tea
Tea Staining Your Art Journal Pages
Tea Stain Paper
In a sense I always found paper beads great, but in another sense it always makes (made! ;-)) such a mess, so that I didn’t often made some.
Then I found the paper bead purses (ooooh…). (The link doesn’t work no more, look instead for the Google image search result for ‘paper bead purse’.)
And on the website of the paper bead purse designer I found a video showing how to use a paper beads roller that you can buy at her website (this link doesn’t work neither, but there’s still the video).
Great idea!
She also describes very good how to apply the glue and how to use the glue excess as varnish for the bead.
A little more research found me an instruction on how to build a self-made paper beads roller.
Another great idea! ;-))
I wasn’t sure whether I want to make sooo many paper beads and additionally I thought that I don’t need no crank, so I simply put everything together and the result is my spontaneously made paper beads roller ;-)
And that’s what you do:
Cut your paper strips for the beads (I used a page from a travel brochure) and take two big needles, two toothpicks (they have to be smooth!) or – as I did – two little metal skewers.
Join both needles (toothpicks, skewers…).
It would be enough to wrap some tape around, but I didn’t want to become my skewers sticky after taking away the tape, therefore I wrapped a broad strip of paper around and taped that.
Slip the end of a paper strip between both skewers (if you use triangular ones, slip in the broad end) and begin to wrap on the bead.
On the photo you can see the paper strip that holds together my skewers.
That’s how it looks shortly before you’re finished with wrapping.
You can’t see no glue on this photo because I can’t wrap with one hand and take photos with the other – at least not without dripping glue everywhere ;-)
When your bead is done you can easily remove it.
I was amazed at how fast and easy everything worked and I had much less mess than before ;-)
The hole of the bead is split into two holes because my bead roller consists of two halves.
I then simply ‘stirred’ the hole with a toothpick so that only one big hole remained ;-)
(By the way, the instruction for this bead is scheduled for tomorrow ;-))
Have fun wrapping paper beads! :))
and if you want to try some other bead shapes check out the Paper University.
Links:
Paper Bead Purses
The link doesn’t work no more, look instead for the Google image search result for ‘paper bead purse’.
Paper Beads Roller Video
Paper Beads Roller Video
Self-made Bead Roller (How to use a bead roller) => scroll down to ‘Hand Made Bead Roller’
Different Paper Bead Shapes (Recycled Paper Beads)
Google search result for ‘paper bead howto’
Google image search result for ‘paper bead howto’
Google search result for ‘Papierperle Anleitung’
Google image search result for ‘Papierperle Anleitung’
Here at unikatissima: Entries containing the words ‘paper’ and ‘bead’
Recently I read the article ‘Can you recognize talent?’ and was kind of shocked to put it mildly: I often walk looking at the ground and being totally absorbed by what I’m thinking at the moment.
And I never realized what I may miss this way!
Yet it is so important to me as a creative to be always open-minded to get many new, wonderful, interesting (and sometimes impracticable ;-)) ideas.
Therefore I decided to look closer in the future, to listen better and if necessary even smell closer (I thought of flowers! ;-))
By the way you can see on the photo a – as I think – very inventive way to park your bicycle at a street festival: s/he simply let it dangle by its treadle from the roof of a bus stop ;-)
Links:
Can you recognize talent?
A great box, isn’t it?
I really want to fold it – but I must get some new printer toner before I can ;-(
Links:
Folded Tiki Box (Tiki Box)
A nice reader send me the link to the cardborad stampede.
She told me that she has made a horse already following the tutorial and that you can even let gallop the horse over your desk when you use a photo holder in place of let them go up the wall.
Many thanks again, I find the horses really great!
Links:
cardboard stampede w/ ann wood
Here at unikatissima: Plaster Photo Holder
A friend showed me the Puzzlemaker and now I’m using its online generators from time to time to relax(!).
But it’s also fun to make birthday cards from them for friends who like puzzling ;-)
Links:
Puzzlemaker – search for ‘Puzzlemaker online’
Somehow I really love painted shoes and so I was thrilled about the tutorial for self customized sneakers.
As much fun as spraypainted shoes ;-)
I think that I won’t do this because first I have too much shoes already and second they somehow don’t match my style, but who knows? ;-)
Links:
Sneaker Customizing Tutorial
Part 1 and part 2
Here at unikatissima: Spraypainting Accessories