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Silhouettes Of Famous Pop Cultural Characters. U.K. based artist Olly Moss has been making paper silhouettes of famous pop cultural figures like the Joker, Bruce Willis from Die Hard, Boba Fett and Pinocchio among many others.

Silhouettes Of Famous Pop Cultural Characters

Rolled Paper Art. First off, many thanks to the lovely folks at Folding Trees who featured my Ring of Keys last week.

Rolled Paper Art

And a warm welcome to those of you who've found your way here via that post or from Craft, paper crave, and all the other sites that linked to it. I could definitely relate to what was said about quilling having more uses than making flowers. Always on a quest to find novel applications of rolled and shaped paper, I love coming across others who quill the unexpected.

Licia Politis is one who not only makes flowers and pretty beads; she also has the ability to create unique paper art. Amazing papercuts by Bomboland. Via abduzeedo bomboland: website.

Amazing papercuts by Bomboland

Blue Earth Bound: Swoon at art in streets. Swoon is one of favorite street artists. I first came across her work on a wall in San Francisco, and have been in love with it ever since. The details in the cut outs of her work is insane, and so beautiful. Her piece in Art in the Streets was lit up inside by a bunch of lights, resulting in the most beautiful shadows of the intricate cut outs, cast on the walls around.

The Levi’s Film Workshop presents a new short film collaboration between Swoon and Cat Solen. This video was filmed at MOCA in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition “Art in the Streets", and shows the exhibit being put together. Kusudama Tutorial part 1. The Japanese kusudama is a paper ball made out of multiple identical origami shapes glued together.

Kusudama Tutorial part 1

They were traditionally used as a ball for incense or potpourri but now we see them more for decoration or as a gift. Today I am showing you part 1 on how to make the Japanese traditional shape. There are many different patterns to make a kusudama ball but I find this the easiest pattern to get started. This is also the pattern I used to make the pink flowers on the tree in the banner. What you need for this tutorial is: 60 pieces of paper cut into squares. Paper Flower Key Holder / Mark Montano. Difficulty Rating: Beginner Tags.

Paper Flower Key Holder / Mark Montano

500px is Photography. Captain Jack Sparrow - Sketchfu. Honeycomb Cardboard. {every}nothing wonderful: Tutorial: Repurposed Envelopes (From Magazines to Mailing) Note: If you like this idea, be sure to check out how to make paper ruffles to add to your envelopes!

{every}nothing wonderful: Tutorial: Repurposed Envelopes (From Magazines to Mailing)

Super quick and easy tutorial for you today. I have a drawer full of these and use them for everything - bills, letters, you name it...my mom does too, actually! Make It and Love It: Glass Etching. Have you ever done any glass etching?

Make It and Love It: Glass Etching

Well, neither had I before today. But wow. Such an easy, yet sweet little touch that you can add to any glass. Check out my new and improved etched Trifle Bowl. The perfect bowl for desserts of all kinds…..and even a great place for fresh fruit on the counter. Takashi Murakami @ Gagosian Gallery. Sketchbookideas. Handmade Kids. About.com: DIY Doily Lamp. Sketchbook 2010 (vol. 2) on the Behance Network. 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.

Tutorial: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk

You can play hopscotch, four-square, and of course draw and create silly stories. Amazingly Creative Drawing Vs Photography. This wonderful work has done by a very talented Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine.

Amazingly Creative Drawing Vs Photography

This creative artist was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He Studied graphic arts and sculpture and I also have a degree in journalism. Lets take a look at some of his awesome works that he calls “Drawing Vs Photography” or “Imagination Vs Reality”. V and Co how to: jersey knit bracelet. I don't know what it is about this time of year that makes me just want to have my bare feet in the sand, be watching the sun setting into the ocean, and breathing in the warm salty air of the beach...as i get older, more and more i find myself missing that place i used to go to almost every.single.day. as a teen.

V and Co how to: jersey knit bracelet

(my skin doesn't miss it. as a matter of fact, i now wish i listened more and DID put SPF on my face...hindsight is 20/20). my mom calls me from her walk on the beach almost every morning... *sigh*yeah, i get a little homesick around this time of the year. heck on my pinterest my "dreaming of summer" has the most pictures in it. ah yes. i miss my ocean. case in point. this bracelet, brought a flood of memories, not because i used to have one like it but because i can totally see me wearing it by the beach, not caring that it's gotten salty and wet, because i can totally make another one in like less than 5 minutes flat when i get home.

*sigh* okay... *cut off excess tails! Amazing Paper Made Muscians. Amazing Paper Made Muscians posted under Photography on May 8th, 2010 with 29 Comments 8 May 0 Share. Page corner bookmarks. This project comes to you at the request of Twitterer @GCcapitalM. I used to believe that a person could never have too many books, or too many bookmarks.

Then I moved into an apartment slightly larger than some people’s closets (and much smaller than many people’s garages) and all these beliefs got turned on their naïeve little heads. But what a person can always look for more of is really cool unique bookmarks. Placeholders special enough for the books that are special enough to remain in your culled-out-of-spacial-necessity collection. Page corner bookmarks are cute, practical and deeply under-represented in the world.* They’re easy to make, easy to customize, and will set you apart from all those same-same flat rectangular bookmarks.

Solitude - 2010/2011 - A work in progress on the Behance Network. Fish - Fablewood. Recycled glove chipmunk. Crazy Illustrations By Chow Hon Lam.