Origami, letterpress, linocuts, laser-cuts, pepakura, pop-ups, flip-books, silhouettes, maché, and more.
Instructables user thickneckarts has a guide to making your own homemade paper, similar to the video we did a few weeks ago. It’s easy, and a great way to have some recycling fun. More: CRAFT Video: Paper Making with Lisa Jacobs
I’ve seen a lot of genius things on the more than 300 craft blogs I read, but this one just about beats them all. Jessica at How About Orange shows how you can easily and quickly transform greeting card envelopes into sweet, decorative gift bags. Brilliant!
In this day and age, receiving a handwritten note is a special and all-too-rare treat. If the card itself is handmade, that’s even better! Here’s a project that uses blank note cards from the craft store and fabric scraps from your stash to create one-of-a-kind embellished greetings that are sure to perk up anyone’s day.
I love this quick craft to make these cereal box bookmarks by Plum Pudding. It’s great way to recycle and a fun project for kids too.
Via BoingBoing, check out Brian Dettmer’s awesome sculptures! David Pescovitz writes: Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer creates marvelous sculptures by performing surgery on books. He has a show opening April 3 at Chicago’s Packer Schopf Gallery. The gallery kindly sent a few sneak peeks at the new work.
I love the sleek style of this men’s sewing kit from designer, Elizabeth Dilk. This sewing kit was created when posed with the problem of creating a sewing kit for men. I decided to package a small, 3.5″x3.5″ cube with just the essentials and directions to replace a button, mend a tear, and hem pants. […]
I loved butterflies as a kid and am blown away by the beautiful art created by LollyChops’ in The Butterfly Project. By simply using butterfly shaped punches, she arranged them in a colorful way and gave them depth by adding foam squares behind each.
