Paper Crafts

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Give Your Valentine A Little Light And Motion With This Quick Project

Give Your Valentine A Little Light And Motion With This Quick Project

Here’s a high-tech take on a paper Valentine: a light-up paper heart spinner. Watch as the simple LED circuit turns into swirly, twirly, light trails when you spin it! Will this project seduce your crush into falling in love with you? You’ll have to make it to find out!  This project combines the popular paper […]

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Maker Spotlight: Natasha Dzurny of Technochic

Maker Spotlight: Natasha Dzurny of Technochic

Natasha Dzurny loves making cool stuff and wants to teach you how to do it to! Create a unique unicorn horn in her upcoming Make A Light Up Unicorn Headband class on October 21st! SIGN UP NOW – ticket sales end Wednesday, October 14th @ 9am ET – to get your unicorn materials in time […]

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Easily Fold Useful Shapes With This Incredible Paper Template Library

Easily Fold Useful Shapes With This Incredible Paper Template Library

Sometimes a resource pops up that is just over-the-top in terms of it’s usefulness. Template Maker by Maarten van der Velde is one an outstanding example of a resource to bookmark for later use. Template Maker is a collection of calculators that create various papercraft templates for you, all free. At first glance, you might […]

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Printmaking Using Nothing But Plaster?

Printmaking Using Nothing But Plaster?

A method for creating unique prints casts in plaster.

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Making a Handmade Rubber Stamp and Ink Box

Making a Handmade Rubber Stamp and Ink Box

Brett McAfee turns a chunk of maple and some rubber into a logo stamp for his Skull & Spade brand.

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Build a Rick and Morty Portal Gun Out of Cardboard and LEDs

Build a Rick and Morty Portal Gun Out of Cardboard and LEDs

Make a convincing portal gun out of little more than cardboard, kitchen trash, and some recycled LEDs.

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