HOW TO – Quilled Paper Leaves
Craft Leftovers shows us how to use scrap paper, glue, and a bit of clever rolling to create these intricate-looking quilled paper leaves. Related: Quilling 101
Paper Crafts
Origami, letterpress, linocuts, laser-cuts, pepakura, pop-ups, flip-books, silhouettes, maché, and more.
Flower Pinwheel Pattern From Heather Bailey
Heather Bailey has provided a downloadable pattern for her Flower Pinwheel that appears in the current issue of Creative Keepsakes.
Papercut Snowflake Bookmark Template
Fog and Thistle offers this downloadable template for creating a beautiful papercut snowflake bookmark.
HOW TO – Paper Flower Table Decor
Craftershock shares a tutorial (reprinted courtesy of Dozi Design), showing us how easy it is to turn something simple like colored paper into these elegant flower decorations for the table.
HOW TO – Excellent Papier-Mache
Writer/puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal has an excellent piece on papier-mache. Papier-mache is one of the oldest forms for creating puppets and so a lot of people think that there must be something better out there. Actually, there are very few contenders. Done well, papier-mache is light, strong, fast, and non-toxic. I know, we’ve all had […]
HOW TO – Paperless Origami
Jeffery Rudell shows how to make this holiday reindeer out of fusible interfacing over on Craft Stylish. You could do this to make any origami model sturdier; it’s a neat texture, too.
HOW TO – Kusudama Ball
Folding Trees shares a two–part tutorial for making these elegant Japanese flower balls called kusudama. The Japanese kusudama is a paper ball made out of multiple identical origami shapes glued together. They were traditionally used as a ball for incense or potpourri but now we see them more for decoration or as a gift.
