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6 Common Types of Paper to Use for Crafts and Prototyping

By Kathy Ceceri

Kathy Ceceri

Kathy's latest books for Maker Media include Fabric and Fiber Inventions, Musical Inventions, and Edible Inventions. She is also the author of Paper Inventions, Making Simple Robots, and other books full of STEAM activities for kids and other beginners. When she's not busy writing, Kathy presents workshops for students and educators at schools, museums, libraries, and makerspaces throughout the Northeast. Visit her at Crafts for Learning.

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Different types of paper have different qualities. Here’s the breakdown to help you decide which paper is right for your crafting project.

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Create Eye-Popping 3D Posters of Your Favorite Comic Book Covers

Create Eye-Popping 3D Posters of Your Favorite Comic Book Covers

By Homemade Game Guru

Homemade Game Guru

As a fanatic crafting fan, inventor, author and designer, I just enjoy making new things for the fun of it! I operate an award-winning how-to You Tube channel called The Homemade Game Guru to share my love of creation with people worldwide. Utilizing cardboard in grandiose ways is my specialty.

I also run an unique online design class to help anyone create a Personal Family Tree Board Game. You can sign up for that class here.

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These handmade, wall-mounted 3D comic book covers are based on famous comic book first appearances.

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Fold These Amazing Geometric Animal Masks from Cardstock

Fold These Amazing Geometric Animal Masks from Cardstock

By Sophia Smith

Sophia Smith

Sophia is the managing editor of the Make: blog. When she’s not greasing editorial gears, she likes to run, ride, climb, and lift things, and make lo-tech goods like zines, desserts, and altered clothing. @sophiuhcamille

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Wintercroft provides templates for these amazing masks. Just cut, fold, and paste and you’re on your way to a dramatic costume.

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Paper Quilled Insects: Capture the Beauty, Not the Bugs

Paper Quilled Insects: Capture the Beauty, Not the Bugs

By Sophia Smith

Sophia Smith

Sophia is the managing editor of the Make: blog. When she’s not greasing editorial gears, she likes to run, ride, climb, and lift things, and make lo-tech goods like zines, desserts, and altered clothing. @sophiuhcamille

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Reddit user greatdane4 has been experimenting with making quilled paper butterflies. She is new to the craft, but does an amazing job.

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Obsessive Architect Crafts One Tiny Paper Building Every Day for a Year

Obsessive Architect Crafts One Tiny Paper Building Every Day for a Year

By Nicole Smith

Nicole Smith

Nicole is a former Editorial Intern at Make: She is a long time maker and previously worked for Instructables.com (Penolopy Bulnick). Every day she is inspired by something new and wishes there was more hours in the day to make!

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By Sophia Smith

Sophia Smith

Sophia is the managing editor of the Make: blog. When she’s not greasing editorial gears, she likes to run, ride, climb, and lift things, and make lo-tech goods like zines, desserts, and altered clothing. @sophiuhcamille

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Charles Young spent a year crafting 365 tiny paper buildings and doing stop motion photography to bring them to life.

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50 Sheets of A4 Went into This Giant Papercraft Mammoth Skull

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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If you like skulls, need some wall decoration, and have some spare time, this papercraft wooly mammoth skull would make a great project!

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How-To: Wind-Up Paper Butterflies

How-To: Wind-Up Paper Butterflies

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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It doesn’t get any better than these lovely paper butterflies that flap their wings.

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