I like to write with pens, but never had a ‘real’ quill pen. With the tutorial on how to cut quill pens I can try it – as soon as I get to know a swan or a goose personally (poor me, being a city kid! ;-))
Links:
Cutting a Quill Pen
Category: Paper
Rolling Pin Prints
I found a tutorial on how to print with a rolling pin.
The idea is really great.
I couldn’t try it yet, but when I will, I want to try it with those ready-bought fun foam shapes.
Links:
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
Rolling Pin Prints
Rolling Pin Prints
Flour Glue
I already presented the Rice Glue, here is an instruction for making flour glue.
It seems that it can be used very good for paper or cardboard and if you increase the amount of the ingredients (and add a little turpentine) it seems that you even get wallpaper glue.
What I really appreciate is, that those glues are non-toxic, that I don’t have to buy stuff to make them and that the making doesn’t seem to be too tedious.
Links:
Flour Glue
Here at unikatissima: Rice Glue
DIY Shrinky Dinks
I found at craftster a tutorial on how to make DIY Shrinky Dinks. I liked this (I don’t like to buy new materials, especially when I haven’t tried the technique yet).
Additionally I made a little research and found more (very similar) tutorials (see also Links below).
I really must try this, although I will wait until summer when I can easily ventilate the kitchen, because I’m always afraid of toxic gases.
Until then I can find out perhaps which of the odd plastic dishes I can use ;-)
Links:
At craftster: shrinky dinks made from old packaging!
At instructables:
- Doodle Earrings (Jewelry Charms) by Recycling #6 plastic (Make your own shrinky dinks!)
- Super Shinking Plastic!
Homemade Paint Recipes
Via one of my most preferred check-this-out blogs art for housewives I found a website with homemade paint recipes.
I liked best that they are made with stuff from household and tempera paint or food colouring.
On the photo you see some of the ingredients I already gathered, but unfortunately I don’t have no tempera paint nor food colouring at home.
Still to purchase :)
Links:
Homemade Paint Recipes
via art for housewives
Collograph Printing
Once again I found a tutorial about something I really want to try once: Collograph Printing.
I think it could be fun: to glue stuff onto cardboard, to ink it and to press a sheet of paper onto.
The paragraph where they wrote, that you can use moistened watercolour paper and get some embossed paper was most interesting to me.
I will ;-))
Links:
Collograph Printing
Pattern Paper
I found a tutorial on how to make cute, fast, self-made packages. They are self painted, respectively self stamped boxes like the recycled card pillow box I presented some time ago.
Concerning the stamping I even found an instruction on how to mass produce greeting cards (it is no real mass production, but she’s making a good many beautiful greeting cards ;-))
I had no reason yet to make this, but it is not soo long until Christmas ;-))
On the photo I already arranged my (for a good deal self carved) stamps ;-)
Links:
Decorating Boxes for Special Occasions
Pattern Paper & Mass Produced Cards
At unikatissima:
Recycled Card Pillow Box
Eraser Stamps
Paper pen decoration
I found a blog entry with a very cute idea: a really nice paper decoration for pens.
She offers an image that you can download and print, then you cut the decorations out and glue them onto your pens.
The blog is in French and these are the relevant points:
Click onto the image to download the PDF file with the right mouse button.
Print the pictures onto fine paper.
Cut out the images and glue onto ypur pens.
Hint: Cut the white picture with the cherry blossoms inside of the green frame.
When sharpening the pen cut first a piece of the paper away with a sharp knife and then sharpen the pen carefully.
Links:
Paper pen decoration (French)
Paper from Plants
I wrote already an entry on Nature Paper, where vegetables have been sliced and dried.
In this tutorial on how to make paper from plants plants are made to ‘real’ paper.
I didn’t try it yet for several reasons, amongst others reasons of place, but I already keep an eye on my yucca ;-))
Sketch for Card
Pages of the heart presented once weekly a card sketch for making cards. Together with the beautiful cards made by others it is always an inspiration for card making.
On the photo you see a card I made following the weekly sketch #9 (but I turned it around).
The card background is stamped with bought as well as self-made stamps and the daisies are hand embroidered just as the paper crazy quilt.
They are re-vamping the website, so it is a little more laborious to reach the articles: Go to the articles site and search there (left navigation bar) for ‘Weekly Sketch’ in the categorie ‘Cards’.
The result will compensate for the trouble :)
Links:
At Pages of the heart: Card sketches
Browse them by going to the articles site and search there (left navigation bar) for ‘Weekly Sketch’ in the categorie ‘Cards’
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Paper Crazy Quilt