…compilation of tutorials
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have seen the beautiful tesselations and wanted to make one myself – That is difficult!
On the photo you see what I could do up until now – but in the instructions it reads: Be patient ;-))
Links:
Make your own Tessellations
I found a wonderful simple technique for beautiful backgrounds: a tutorial on how to stencil with paper doilies.
Isn’t it great?
At my next shopping i must look for paper doilies ;-))
Links:
Paper Doilies Stencils
Once I saw the beautiful paper bead jewelry at newspaperjewelry.com and was stunned. Then I found a tutorial on how to make a paper bead bracelet at craftster.org with some really good ideas, e.g. to fix the paper beads with hair pins or to coat everything with modpodge.
Just another item on one of my to-do-lists ;-)
Links:
craftster.org: My preferred craft forum
Paper Bead Bracelet
newspaperjewelry.com: Beautiful paper beads jewelry
There are many recipes for making papier mache which I still want to try out.
On the photo you see one of my many UFO’s ;-)
It is a wall-vase-to-be, made with tore newspaper stripes and ready to use wall paste.
Links:
At ‘The Papier Mache Resource’ :
Some Advanced Papier Mache Recipes (English)
Take also a look at the other tutorials, the articles and the galleries
More recipes:
(Google search results)
Search for ‘paper mache paste recipe’
Search for ‘papier mache rezept’
Image search for ‘paper mache paste recipe’
Image search for ‘papier mache rezept’
