…compilation of tutorials
Again I found a tutorial for making paper bowls. I found the bowls nice but not the way I wanted them.
Therefore I glued three, four layers of white tissue paper on using wallpaper glue – the ‘quite normal’ paper mache technique.
I really like this bowl, although I should possibly paint it.
Links:
(another) tutorial on how to make paper bowls (magazine bowl)
Here at unikatissima:
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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 ;-))
I found a tutorial on how to make box dolls – stunning!
Something for my to-do-list! :)
Links:
Box Dolls by Catherine Moore
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