…compilation of tutorials
I’m always impressed by all the great ideas out there: This time it’s about sewing yourself a pillow from paper napkins matching your home furnishings!
Seen like this it would be great for a picnic or similar, too: you can take pillows with you that match the other napkins ;-)
She said that the pillows are amazingly strong, somewhen I really have to try this ;-))
Links:
Thrifty Paper Napkin Pillow
I told already that want to lose weight before I will crochet the bolero but I don’t find it easy.
How much better must it be if the scales tell me that my weight is ‘perfect’?
;-)
She made the scales with glass mosaic tiles but I think that it should be possible with selfmade mosaic tiles from polymer clay or glass paints or from plaster, resp. Or of course with a paper collage, best as paper crazy quilt. Or with eggshells.
;-))
Links:
Scales (Perfect Scale: Mosaic)
More scales (Perfect Scale Commision)
Here at unikatissima:
Crocheted Bolero
Mosaic from Plaster
Mosaic Table Light
Paper Crazy Quilt
Eggshell Mosaics
Such a great idea again: simply begin just as for the coiled paper basket but stop quite soon and make from the rolls little pieces of jewelry.
I really have to try it with the folded paper strips of equal width!
Links:
Paper Roll Jewelry (Kind of a half-baked idea, but still…)
Here at unikatissima:
Coiled Paper Basket
Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width
I presented some boxes already, the one of today is folded from old greeting cards.
On the photo you can see it folded from a calendar or magazin sheet as a gift wrapping for my hyperbolic pin.
I find both (gift and box) still great! :)
Links:
Little Boxes for Precious Presents
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Hyperbolic Pin (TED Talk: Nature, Crochet and Geometry)
Looks great, doesn’t it really?
I always thought about what to make from pop-ups apart from cards – now I know ;-))
Links:
Origamic Architecture Pencil Holder
Here at unikatissima: Entries containing the word ‘pop-up’
Actually a Kusudama is a whole ball made of those paper flowers, but to tell the truth I like it better this way ;-)
Links:
Kusudama Tutorial part 1
Kusudama Tutorial part 2
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tags ‘paper’ and ‘flower’
I find this 12-sided calendar a nice idea for a gift.
It is made for 2009 but you can adapt it to 2010 from the blank template yourself, possibly even handwritten and embellished with funny sketches.
Links:
Rhombic Dodecahedron and Calendar 2009: paper strips for plaiting
There is also a German version.
Hmpf, they are kitschy – but I find both Panda brothers cute, anyhow ;-))
And you can find a tutorial, too.
But this is not for me, I haven’t even finished the paper folded bracelet ;-)
Links:
Origami Panda (Brothers)
Tutorial for the Origami Pandas (Panda Tutorial WIP)
Here at unikatissima:
Paper folded bracelet
Entries with the tag ‘Origami’
Entries with the tag ‘paper folding’
‘Whitewash paper’ sounds strange, but that’s exactly what she does in her tutorial with the decorative paper: she tints stripes of the decorative paper so that the original pattern shows through.
I find it very elegant.
I think that should be possible with gesso, too (as are so many other things: Wow!) – but I still have to try it out.
If you have experience with this I’d be pleased if you post it in a comment (by the way I’d always be pleased if you comment ;-))
Links:
Alter Your Paper with Krylon’s Whitewash Paper Finish
I found a tutorial on how to tie-dye paper that is similar to my self coloured tissue papers but with the advantage that you dye proper stiff paper.
I have to try this, too ;-)
Links:
Tie-Dye Paper
Here at unikatissima: Self Coloured Tissue Papers