Category: Paper

Cardboard Stampede

DesignSponge Ann Wood Cardboard Stampede

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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

Sneaker Customizing

Beru Betto Customized Sneakers

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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

Your name in Japanese

japanesetranslator Susann

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I find the Japanese name translator really great, I simply let output the name Susann in all possible fonts ;-)

I’m not yet sure what to do with them but nothing could be easier than to turn them into filet crochet/cross stitch embroidery charts and then we’re really going to get started with knitting, crocheting, embroidering, knotting, stencelling etc ;-))

Or I print them as signature next time on a greeting card.
Or I cut a stamp from it.
Do you have more ideas?


Links:
Your name in Japanese

Here at unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
Letter stencils
Eraser Stamps
DIY Photo Silhouette T-Shirt

Curved Crease Origami

unikatissima Curved Crease Origami

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Well, origami is wonderful, but I find some of the most fascinating items those with curved creases.
I tried a first, beautiful example – and as you can see on the picture I have to practice a lot.

But why not? ;-)

 


Links:
At The Institute For Figuring: Curved Crease Origami – You can find two PDF files there at the end

Here at unikatissima:
Other entries with links to The Institute For Figuring:
TED Talk: Nature, Crochet and Geometry
Beaded Hyperbolic Planes

Entries with the tag ‘origami’

DIY Photo Silhouette T-Shirt

inhabitots Customized Silhouette T-Shirt

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I find the idea to make a photo of your children, to make a silhouette stencil from the photo and then to print it on a t-shirt great – but a too narrow approach ;-):
Why not making a t-shirt with your own name in Japanese?
Or using the silhouette of a well known building (i.e. the Eiffelturm)?
And why only on a t-shirt, why not on a linen bag, a greeting card or quite large on the wall?
And why as a stencil, why not simply as a self-cut stamp?
Or as fabric appliqué?

Well, I really must think about what else can be done this way ;-)
If you have a good idea I’d be happy if you commented about (if not, I’d be happy about a comment, too ;-)).


Links:
Make a Customized Silhouette T-Shirt Of Your Kids

via: Photo Silhouette Shirts

Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Letter stencils
Stamped Appliqués
Your name in Japanese


Note: I wrote an entry about your name in Japanese but I rescheduled it thoughtlessly to another date because of the World Wide Knit in Public Day 2009 (WWKiP Day).
I’m sorry, it will still take some days (I don’t dare to reschedule everything again ;-().
Now I can offer you the right link to your name in Japanese ;-)
But there you can see it: all hand-made ;-))

Sashiko Embroidery


unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery

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Actually I don’t want to talk only about Sashiko embroidery but about Sashiko embroidery on paper – I just prefer to embroider on paper ;-))

I discovered Sashiko embroidery one day when surfing the internet and found the results just beautiful!
The basic principle (as far as I understood) is that Sashiko embroidery is mostly a shape filling embroidery and the lines are worked as ‘dashed lines’ where the spaces between the dashes are about half as long as the dashes themselves (simply check the tutorials (for ‘real’ Sashiko embroidery) in the links, they explained it better).

 

unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery
Then I saw one day that our toilet paper (top left on the picture) doesn’t only have a nice pattern but that I can use the pressure points for a Sashiko embroidery by using alternately the left and the right side of the points as needle entry points.
Therefore I trace-pricked the pattern on paper (bottom right on the picture) and embroidered it in two colours.
I find that you can’t see any more on the result that it is made by ‘cheating’ from toilet paper ;-))

 

unikatissima Sashiko Embroidery Here a look at the backside.
I will glue it on a card and send as a greeting card.
To people who use different toilet paper ;-))

 


Links:
Sashiko Tutorial
How to do Sashiko Stitching

Google image search result for ‘sashiko’