…compilation of tutorials
I’ve seen some shaped books, at an exhibition e.g. in our public library and I always liked them.
Therefore I’ve been pleased to find a tutorial for shaped books – great! :))
By the way, there are folded books, too which seem to be interesting, too ;-)
Links:
Shape Book Tute
folded books 2
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’
A dear friend sent me the link to an Origami instruction for a photo frame.
I’ve seen several before which didn’t really impressed me, but of course I took a look at the tutorial:
I’m amazed!
My friend wrote that you can put a postcard or a 10 x 15 cm photo in a frame made of a A4 paper sheet and that a 7 x 10 cm photo fits in a frame made from a A5 paper sheet.
I find best of all that you adjust the size of your photo frame exactly to your photo in one of the last steps and this way you can even make it fit a not-so-exacltly-cut 10 x 15 cm photo.
What is more the frame is easy to fold.
What more could you ask for? ;-)
Here I show the back of the frame.
When folding you create an (amazingly stiff) triangle that serves as frame stand.
Here you can (hopefully) see that the photo frame can only stand if the picture is in landscape format, a portrait formatted picture has to be hung at the wall or put into a photoholder.
First I thought about making the frame from patterned paper but then I found it a little bit silly because you can only see the four corners on the front side.
Links:
Origami Photo Frame (Picture Frame)
Here at unikatissima:
Plaster Photo Holder
more entries with the tag ‘photoholder’
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
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 cute tealight again: the Fortune boat lamp.
I don’t have the right paper yet, but I will make it for a beautiful summer evening on our balcony :)
Links:
Fortune Boat Lamp
based on the Fortune Boats
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
I like to fold Origami boxes but these are even better: you can stack them.
Once I folded them and used them for little beads but by now I have thrown them away.
Actually it’s a pity.
Links:
Mike’s Origami – Origami Diagram Links – Boxes and Containers => click ‘Tower Boxes’ (PDF, ca. 82 KB)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Entries with the tag ‘origami’
Folded boxes:
Paper Matchbox Slide Box
Curved Box not only for an Advent Calendar
I found an instruction for a cute notebook that is simply made with folded paper as pages and playing cards as cover.
That could be a nice quick small present.
Recently I re-discoverd the website of Lisa Vollrath whose tutorials I always found really great.
When I saw her ‘A Simple Tabbed Pop-Up’ I wanted to try it immediately.
But then it started: No, I don’t want to make an Eiffelturm, but something else. But what? Somebody wrote something about sail boats in the comments.
Ok, good idea.
Ehm, the toner of my printer won’t suffice to print something.
Hmm, Lisa said that actually it doesn’t matter how large the tabs are…
Thus I took an A4 paper horizontally and my Xacto knife and startet to cut a sail boat and the sea.
I find my card for a try on the spur of the moment quite nice, but I haven’t decided yet what to put on the front side ;-)
Links:
At Go Make Something: A Simple Tabbed Pop-Up