I found a tutorial on how to make box dolls – stunning!
Something for my to-do-list! :)
Links:
Box Dolls by Catherine Moore
Category: Paper
Popup Spinner
I found a tutorial for a great pop-up card! The center spins apparently when opening the card.
There is even an animation.
Unfortunately I haven’t had the time to make this card yet, but I will ;-)
Links:
Popup Spinner
Animation showing how the popup spinner works
Leaves Skeletons
I found a tutorial on how to make leaves skeletons.
You must use the leaves of the ‘peepal tree’, unfortunately I didn’t find out what this tree is called in German.
I tried different leaves, but it didn’t work, alas.
And those leaves skeletons are soo beautiful!
Links:
Make a Card of Webbed Veins
Woven Magazine Bag
At craftster.org I have seen a tutorial on how to make a woven magazine bag.
I like as well the bag as well the tutorial ;-)
You can use my folded paper strips of equal width ;-)
Links:
The Original Woven Magazine Bag!!
At unikatissima: Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width
Illustrate Words
If you’re making altered books or cards, you often use single, meaningful words.
I have found a good proposal on how to illustrate words.
On the picture I tried to put the word ‘Glass’ onto the photo of the tesselation as if it was made of glass (not bad for a first try? ;-))
My inspiration was a tutorial on how to create a gel button.
It was fun ;-)
Links:
Illustrate Words
Gel Button
Paper Wallet
After the duct tape wallet and the tetrapak coin purse I’d like to present today an ingenious tutorial on how to fold a paper wallet.
On the photo you see one of my test wallets, folded from an official envelope with window and blue patterned lining.
Envelopes are unfortunately too narrow, I can’t put in an unfolded bank note, but it was fun to fold ;-)
I folded others from DIN A4 paper covered in gift wrapping and I really like the size.
One has got a little pocket glued on, another got its sides glued together. One has been covered in self-adhesive book foil, another has been glued after been covered in transparent gift wrapping.
All work fine and seem to be robust (the author of the tutorial writes about this aspect, too).
The only thing I miss is a ‘real’ coin purse with closure.
But the best is: the folding is done in no time ;-))
It is e.g. a wonderful wrapping if you want to give money.
Es wäre z.B. eine tolle Verpackung für ein Geldgeschenk.
Links:
Paper Wallet
More tutorials for paper wallets at instructables
Here at unikatissima:
Duct Tape Wallet
Tetrapak Coin Purse
Crease Patterns
Recently I saw the TED Talk of Robert Lang and was totally impressed.
He describes how Origami changed and developed with the use of methematics and how they developed a new, better ‘language’ to describe crease patterns.
On the picture you see the crease description of Charon from Eileen’s Origami Page (I couldn’t imagine this as well :-)).
Take a look at Robert Lang’s Origami website, it is mind-blowing! (The crease patterns can be found at ‘Art’.)
And at Eileen’s Origami Page you can find a great article: The Beginner’s Guide to Crease Patterns.
You have to begin somewhere ;-)
Links:
TED Talks: fascinating lectures about nearly all
Robert Langs TED Talk: Idea + square = origami
Robert Lang’s Origami website
(The crease patterns can be found at ‘Art’.)
Eileen’s Origami Page:
The Beginner’s Guide to Crease Patterns
Crafting with Glasses
I had a discussion the other day about all the stuff I simply can’t throw away – and then I found a tutorial about crafting with glasses. She makes beautiful pins from old glasses.
There you go! ;-))
By the way: I personally won’t craft with old glasses, because I found it a better use to spend glasses to people who can’t afford them.
This discussion takes also place at the tutorial and after having read it I think that funkylicious has a point: Those who craft with old glasses can do charity in so many ways.
Links:
Crafting with Glasses
Moroccan Purse
I always like looking for Origami tutorials and this time I’d like to present a tutorial for a little purse.
I know those purses from former times, they were made from leather. I had one, and soon I will make one from paper ;-)
Thinking about it, it must look great, if you use coloured magazine paper?! I have to try this.
Links:
Moroccan Purse
The link has been changed:
Moroccan Purse
Coiled Paper Basket
I wanted to present a tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes, there are lots of them.
With such a craft you can do with my tutorial on how to fold paper strips of equal width ;-))
Have fun rolling and glueing!
Links:
Tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes – Coiled Paper Basket
Another tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes – Magazine Bowl
unikatissima’s tutorial on how to fold paper strips of equal width