I’ve discovered that you can search for books at Google based on a date, e.g. knitting books from the 19th century ;-))
Links:
Knitting Books from 19th the Century
The picture comes from My Knitting Book
Category: Paper
Recycled Japanese Lamp
I must say that I like this lamp very much – and it doesn’t seem to be very hard to make it.
Origami Brooch
I’m not sure whether I like the Origami brooch but it’s surely worth a try ;-)
Links:
DIY Origami Brooch
Cupcake Wrappers
Ok, that’s surely no instruction but a wonderful inspiration: embellish your cupcakes for once with a beautiful border, cut, doodled (like the paper beads), stamped or what ever ;-))
If you want to make such a cupcake wrapper yourself, my online cone calculator could possibly be a help ;-)
Links:
Cupcake Wrappers (Love Story Wedding Cupcake Wrappers)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘paper cut’
Entries with the tag ‘doodle’
Entries with the tag ‘stamping’
Making Paper Beads
Online Cone Calculator
Lined Envelope
I surely will need the tutorial for lined envelopes one day! ;-)
It must also look great when the envelopes are lined with colourful ads or the like.
Links:
lined envelope tutorial
Inchie Frames
I find as well fabric inchies as well paper inchies beautiful, but I never quite knew what to do with them.
Now I know it: I have to frame them ;-)
They embellish ready bought frames in the instruction, but you can always make your frames yourself ;-)
Links:
Frame Your Inchies
Here at unikatissima:
Fabric Inchie Collage
Serendipity Collage
Entries with the tag ‘photoholder’
Altered Books Simplified
One method to simplify the work on an altered book is to use children’s cardboard books as base. They often have the advantage, too, to have interesting shapes.
Once I began such a book (on the picture you see the original book).
These are the first two pages. I used amongst others (just as for the artist book) self-dyed paper, packing tape transfers, embroidery on paper and dried flowers and leaves.
Because of the embroidery I don’t immediately glue the papers in but I finish the pages first.
The following pages aren’t finished yet – just another UFO (unfinished object) ;-)
Links:
Altered Books Simplified
Here at unikatissima:
Artist-Book
Packing Tape Transfers
Entries with the tags ‘paper’ and ’embroidery’
How to Press Flowers, Leaves and Herbs
Packing Tape Transfers
Packing tape transfers are wonderful ;-)
You can see how it looks e.g. at the flexagons or at my artist book.
In the instruction they are using laser prints that they sell but I’ve made already all sorts of papers (more or less) ‘transparent’: articles from Arabic and Chinese newspapers, pictures from old comic books, patterns from some ads or my beloved travel brochure, pages from old music books or old books written in Fraktur.
Self-printed pictures (I have an inkjet) didn’t work and the quality of my packing tape transfers was differing strongly.
Therefore it’s true again: The proof of the pudding is in the eating ;-))
Links:
Transfers With Packing Tape
Wikipedia entry for ‘Fraktur’ (English)
Wikipedia entry for ‘Fraktur’ (German)
Here at unikatissima:
Flexagons
Artist-Book
Paper Shopping Bag
Embroidered Cards
I found another embroidered card ;-)
If you pay close attention you can see that the body and the antennae of the butterfly are even made with beads.
Cute, isn’t it?
Links:
Embroidered Cards (How stitching cards are made)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tags ’embroidery’ and ‘card’
Kirigami Tower
Well, the Kirigami tower looks impressive, doesn’t it?
I only don’t know what to do with it ;-))