DIY 4th of July Paper Stars. To start your July 4 celebration planning, here are some fun paper stars that are easy to make with our red and blue versions of the printable template.
Each template includes one swirl star and one relief star. Just print these out on your regular copy paper and follow the instructions below. My mind is popping out all kinds of ideas on how to use these stars this Fourth of July holiday. . . posts to come. ~Lia Lia. Discover Paper. Paper Birds to Make. Licia Politis, a quilling pal of mine, has been on a paper bird kick lately.
She showed me this little pair she made recently after coming across a tutorial on Under the Table and Dreaming. Licia adapted hers by using colored paper clips for the legs - so cute. We began looking around for more ideas... there's definitely no shortage out there in blogland! Larissa Holland of mmmcrafts shows sweet birds and owls and provides a downloadable template so you can make these cards. They would be perfect as wall decor in a little one's room. Carolyn of Carolyn's Homework made this realistically shaped bird from a few simple supplies. Inspiration: Origami Cranes. It is said that when one folds 1000 origami paper cranes they are granted a wish.
Source Source Source Source Source Here’s a link to a great video showing you how to fold a crane. Craft DIY Projects, Patterns, How-tos, Fashion, Recipes @ Craftzine.com - Felting, Sewing, Knitting, Crocheting, Home & More. Quilling, the coiling and shaping of narrow paper strips to create a design, has been around for years — hundreds, in fact.
During the Renaissance, nuns and monks would roll gold-gilded paper remnants trimmed during the bookmaking process, and use them to decorate religious objects as an alternative to costly gold filigree. Quilling later became a pastime of 18th and 19th century young ladies in England, who would decorate tea caddies and pieces of furniture with paper filigree. The practice crossed the Atlantic with colonists, who added quilling to candle sconces and trays as home decorations. In all of that time, the process has remained very much the same, but quilling designs and specialty supplies have definitely caught up to the 21st century. Today some aficionados focus on making incredibly detailed 3-D figures, while others favor wall-sized museum installations. Inspired by Yulia Brodskaya. I can't get over how amazing these are.
I wouldn't be surprised if Yulia invented quilling. She is a 28 year old artist from Moscow who creates beautiful designs from vertical pieces of thin paper and her website is full of inspiration in color, line, shadow and technique. You don't have to be a fellow quiller to wish you were like this great lady. Even though her pieces would be amazing if they were drawn, it was the fact that they are 3d that caught my attention. I imagine one of her expert pieces would take hours, which I do not have... When my husband and I were engaged, I bought wooden letters to spell out 'save the date' and covered them with different patterned paper. (I couldn't resist showing our cute picture) The letters were already covered (I know, I didn't post a diy... I picked out 4 colors of paper that went with the colors in the pattern and had them cut into 1/2" strips. Inspiration: Origami Cranes. Quilling - Turning Paper Strips into Intricate Artworks.
Quilling has been around for hundreds of years, but it’s still as impressive and popular now as it was during the Renaissance.
The art of quilling first became popular during the Renaissance, when nuns and monks would use it to roll gold-gilded paper and decorate religious objects, as an alternative to the expensive gold filigree. How to make gift bags from newspaper. When I bought something at a store recently, the clerk handed me my purchase in a bag made from a newspaper.
I liked it very much and had to make some more—thus today's DIY recycled newspaper project: gift bags made from the Wall Street Journal. You can vary the dimensions, of course, but here's what I used to create a bag that's 5" tall, 4.5" wide, and 3" deep. Stack two sheets of newspaper on top of each other. This will be a two-ply bag for extra sturdiness. Tall Painting. Tutorial: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk. By Michelle Vackar, Modern Handmade Child One of our favorite outside activities at our home is drawing with chalk on the driveway.
You can play hopscotch, four-square, and of course draw and create silly stories. My daughters and I were talking one day as we played hopscotch about how to make chalk and I thought to myself, let’s try it! It ended up being quite a lot of fun. Photography, Design & Inspiration. Mrs.K's classes. Art 1. Optical Design. Paper Flowers – Anyone Can Do That. Japanese Kusudama, this tutorial is featured on Craftuts.
Cutting files in SVG and DXF formats. Page corner bookmark for kids in Ideas for kids' crafts.