63 Butterflies
Craftster user Tanekcha recently made this impressive piece of art featuring 63 butterfly cut-outs. She was inspired by Ali Edwards (who has a how-to on her blog).
Paper Crafts
Origami, letterpress, linocuts, laser-cuts, pepakura, pop-ups, flip-books, silhouettes, maché, and more.
Jen Stark Video
Jen Stark (featured here several times before) just had a video produced about her that helps illuminate her motivation and process as well as how blogs are helping fuel her career as an artist. Via Wooster Collective. More: Jen Stark – Construction Paper Coolness!
RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion
Regine @ WMMNA writes about an interesting exhibition in Greece: RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion, an exhibition conceived by ATOPOS in Athens, is the outcome of an investigation on paper clothing, a long-forgotten but very popular phenomenon in the United States at the end of the ’60s. The fad can be traced back to 1966 when manufacturing […]
HOW TO – Rub-On Transfers
I’ve been seeing more rub-on transfers around the Internet and wondered if you could make your own – sure enough, I found instructions on the Rubber Stamping Fun site; their process uses hair products. You can also find rub-on transfer decal paper on eBay.
HOW TO – To-Go Cup Tissue Dispenser
On Curbly: There’s a company out there called WeGo, that sells facial tissues in a take-away coffee cup. In the interest of DIY-ism, I bought one of these cups of 50 sand-paper-rough tissues for 3 bucks so I could pop off the top, rip the guts out and figure out how to make them. Here’s […]
HOW TO – Mini-Notebooks
The blogosphere has been all aflutter over the new line of Charley Harper products being sold at Old Navy right now. (We can thank creative director Todd Oldham for that.) One of the coolest projects I’ve seen come out of this new line? Paper and Stitch uses the cardboard squares from the Charley Harper Memory […]
HOW TO – Paint Chip Gift Tags
I’ve been collecting a bunch of paint chip sample cards recently (I’m planning to repaint our kitchen nook soon) and this gift tag project from A Spoonful of Sugar is going to be a great way for me to reuse those chips once I’ve settled on a paint color. [via WhipUp]
