Origami, letterpress, linocuts, laser-cuts, pepakura, pop-ups, flip-books, silhouettes, maché, and more.
Bonnie writes: With R2-D2 mailboxes popping up across America, thanks to the U.S Postal Service and Lucasfilm, fans can celebrate 30 years of Star Wars and mail letters at the same time. But if you can’t find a R2-D2 mailbox near you, make this cool papercraft 3-D model of the mailbox for your action figures! […]
From today’s SF Gate comes an article about Jill Tarlau of San Francisco who studied bookbinding in Paris, and has made 200 books in 21 years. From the article: Her signature is her exquisitely detailed embroidery, which she incorporates into the design of each uniquely sized, leather-bound book cover. She considers embroidered bookbindings to be […]
Here’s a great recycle project from Super Naturale on how to make this vinyl pouch with images from old books (this one’s astronomy). Link.
DIY Maven at Curbly writes: “Tie-dying” paper is a fun and easy project. And, chances are, you already have everything on hand you need to do it. Check out her fun tie-dying paper tutorial here. Link.
Check out the first complete paper quilt from the Paper Quilt Project (see previous CRAFT post) for the month of Feb. It looks amazing all together! Find out more about each of the artists and see the larger quilt here. Link.
Diane of CraftyPod has a new podcast up on how to make things with metal. I love all the different projects she’s collected from jewelry, kids craft, to these decorative cards above. Plus did you catch the title? It’s “metal-crafting on the cheap”. I like the sound of that! Link.
There are lots of great Moleskine hacks around and this one by Trumpetvine Travels can be added to the list. As an artist, she wasn’t happy with the paper inside the moleskin for her artwork but loved the strong cover and inner pocket. Trumpetvine Travels writes: I have developed a process for replacing the paper […]
