I had my doubts that a complex design would work but I was wrong. I had been itching to try using the Vainglory logo (DS has been casting a tournament and loves playing the game as well) but it wa…
As Promised, here's the seven part tutorial 'A Book Folding Course'. I put this book folding tutorial together to help people new to book folding get to grips with the basics. Once you have this knowledge it's a very easy craft to get involved with. That's one of the great things about book folding. It's also cheap! You're likely to have all the tools you need to get started already and second hand books don't cost much, if anything, and are readily available. Throughout the course w
Cut and Fold Book folding is not as difficult as it looks. These easy cut and fold book folding instructions will get you on your way.
Book Folding Tutorial, one of my favorite tutorials from Loren Crane of Pandora’s Craft Box. This book folding art is a great way to upcycle an old book.
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At first sight these very detailed pictures, which sell for up to £3,800, seem to have been drawn with pencil but only when you notice that Simon's gallery web address ends with "papierarbeiten.html" you understand how amazing his works really are.
These lovely paper masks were made by my second graders. The students learned different paper manipulation techniques including controlled tearing, punching paper with Fiskars squeeze punchers, cutting with paper edgers , crimping paper with a paper crimper, making forms, cutting spirals, folding zigzags and more. I created a poster with paper manipulation techniques using ideas that I had seen on other sculpture posters, like this one. I should have made a poster like this years ago. I have referred students … Read more... →
So the bookmaking group I am on (pretty darn nearly the only thing that ever drives me to log in to Facebook) had a challenge for a Turkish Map Fold book. You may recall I reposted quite an old PD…
You may have noticed a lot of paper art around lately? It’s certainly a very popular medium at the moment and not without reason. Inexpensive, great for small work spaces and you can start wi…
Amazing paper art books by Isaac Salazar. As a bibliophile... I can't help it, I really hate to see pages cut. I can't tell. Are the pages only creased or were small cuts necessary to achieve some of the finer dimensions?
Create a chain of paper dolls by cutting multi-folded paper strips. Learn this basic paper cutting technique with paper dolls then let your imagination run wild. Cut paper chains with themes for every season and every special event. They make great decorations for parties, classrooms and your home.
You may be wondering just what an asymmetrical paper chain is. Well, have you ever made a paper doll chain? The kind where you cut half of the doll from a center vertical fold, meaning that whate…
As a child I really loved Alexander Calder's sculptures. Whimsical and colorful, they let me see that art can be fun too! Today I'm sharing a really simple paper sculpture project inspired by Calder's large scale metal ones. They take only minutes to whip up and certainly would also make for fun scissor practice with younger kids as well! Kids Calder-Inspired Art Sculptures This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! In case you're looking for some great art books to go along with this activity, here are... Our current 20+ favorite art books: Colorful Dreamer Lester Fizz Bubble Gum Artist The Iridescence of Birds Modern Art Adventures Mix it Up Press Here Any Ed Emberley Book The Day the Crayons Quit Beautiful Oops Dog's Colorful Day Too Much Glue Harold and the Purple Crayon Day with No Crayons Artist to Artist Artist Ted The House Baba Built A Blue Butterfly: A Story of Claude Monet Sandy's Circus A is for Art The Artful Parent This Bridge Will Not Be Grey Art Workshops for Children I shot a video generally showing how to make one of these sculptures. Calder-Inspired Paper Sculptures from Pink Stripey Socks on Vimeo. But in case you like to read directions, here they are! 1. Cut out a rectangular piece of paper. I used construction paper, which stood up fine at home, but fell down with any bit of wind. If you want to make these sturdier, use cardstock (Optional: Decorate it with markers!) 2. Fold it in half. 3. Make cuts like pictured. Cut lines and curves until they almost reach the fold. 4. Optional, decorate with groovy circle stickerrs. 5. Open it up and fold the strips to the front or back in an alternating fashion. (This will help the sculpture to balance.) So on the left side you would fold the strips (starting from the top) front, back, front, back, and front. And on the right side you would fold the strips (starting from the top) back, front, back, front, and back. Once you get the basic design down, you can play around with your cutting ... like I did below! It's really neat seeing all of these guys standing up! They're kinda addictive to make... and I hope you try making them with your kids too! If you liked this paper art project, you'll like these other ideas as well! Easy Matisse Murals 3d Twisty Snakes Woven Paper Banner Jasper Johns Wall Art Slinky Paper Garland Paper Net Garland Kirigami Flowers Kirigami Stars Let's keep in Contact! You can always find fun ideas on my Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts! (Or subscribe to my email mailing list by filling out the pink bar at the top of your screen.) Happy making, friends!
El Paso-based artist Isaac Salazar folds and cuts the pages of books to create word and images. Here's the story of how he started in the craft, as told by his wife Veronica: In 2000, we went house hunting and saw a model home that displayed some book art. They were very simple, kind of like the Readers Digest Christmas Trees, but a bit different. We loved them... so i immediately went home to make our own for the guest bedroom. We have since moved and I needed some new art for our guest bedroom when my...
You may be wondering just what an asymmetrical paper chain is. Well, have you ever made a paper doll chain? The kind where you cut half of the doll from a center vertical fold, meaning that whate…
Cut and Fold Book folding is not as difficult as it looks. These easy cut and fold book folding instructions will get you on your way.
I was reviewing my folder of prototypes the other day and came across a structure I created a few months ago and forgot about. I am making some samples for a friend and thought this one would be interesting to share. Instead of just sharing with her I decided to share it with all of you as well. Below are pictures of the structure being folded as well as the crease pattern for folding it yourself. One piece of advice, fold before making the 8 cuts. It is easier that way. Enjoy! Diagonal and linear folds completed. Collapsed model ready to fold in the corners. Folding the corners to prepare to inside reverse fold them. Beginning to collapse the model with all the folds present. (Outside of model) Inside of model with all the folds properly creased. One way of displaying the piece. I like the way the four inside corners form the star in the center. Folding the model closed. Crease pattern for this structure.
If you dig some sacrilege with your books, check out these amazing artists who are going way beyond the dog-ear with their folded book art.
Folded Book Art - Best & Most Clear Tutorial Available: I just absolutely love creating my own folded book art. It's such a fun way of re-using old books and give them another purpose. I've searched and searched the web to find any tutorials on how to do it and i just couldn't find anything. Until one da…
I was reviewing my folder of prototypes the other day and came across a structure I created a few months ago and forgot about. I am making some samples for a friend and thought this one would be interesting to share. Instead of just sharing with her I decided to share it with all of you as well. Below are pictures of the structure being folded as well as the crease pattern for folding it yourself. One piece of advice, fold before making the 8 cuts. It is easier that way. Enjoy! Diagonal and linear folds completed. Collapsed model ready to fold in the corners. Folding the corners to prepare to inside reverse fold them. Beginning to collapse the model with all the folds present. (Outside of model) Inside of model with all the folds properly creased. One way of displaying the piece. I like the way the four inside corners form the star in the center. Folding the model closed. Crease pattern for this structure.
Make your very own book folding art to spruce up your home decor or to give as gifts. DIY tips and tricks to make your folded book art easy!
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Cut and Fold Book folding is not as difficult as it looks. These easy cut and fold book folding instructions will get you on your way.
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I was reviewing my folder of prototypes the other day and came across a structure I created a few months ago and forgot about. I am making some samples for a friend and thought this one would be interesting to share. Instead of just sharing with her I decided to share it with all of you as well. Below are pictures of the structure being folded as well as the crease pattern for folding it yourself. One piece of advice, fold before making the 8 cuts. It is easier that way. Enjoy! Diagonal and linear folds completed. Collapsed model ready to fold in the corners. Folding the corners to prepare to inside reverse fold them. Beginning to collapse the model with all the folds present. (Outside of model) Inside of model with all the folds properly creased. One way of displaying the piece. I like the way the four inside corners form the star in the center. Folding the model closed. Crease pattern for this structure.
Folded Book Art - Best & Most Clear Tutorial Available: I just absolutely love creating my own folded book art. It's such a fun way of re-using old books and give them another purpose. I've searched and searched the web to find any tutorials on how to do it and i just couldn't find anything. Until one da…
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Things that quicken the heart...The magical paper cuts of Hans Christian Andersen I had the pleasure of seeing some of these wonders at an exhibition shown here in Dublin= Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs. ”Det hele er Andersens poesi i klipperi! Broget, løjerligt alleslags, alt med en saks!” (In Andersen's paper-cuts you see His poetry! A medley of diverting treasures All done with scissors.) The fact that Andersen could create such delicate patterns and gossamery, graceful dancers out of a thickly folded piece of paper with the help of a crude, heavy pair of scissors was pure magic in the eyes of children. The eldest of the daughters at Holsteinsborg Manor remembered in particular, later in life as a grown-up baroness, the light, delicate dolls Andersen had cut for her out of white paper and which she afterwards had placed on the table and blown at carefully so that they fluttered back and forth: “He always cut with an enormous pair of paper scissors, and I simply couldn’t understand how he could cut such pretty, delicate things with his big hands and this enormous pair of scissors.” This was Hans Christian Andersen’s own explanation of a highly spectacular page in Astrid Stampes Billedbog from 1853, where seven or eight little cuttings from twice as many pieces of paper in all sorts of colours and patterns merge into one big picture. And this is also how we must regard Andersen’s paper art: as something colourful, diverting and poetic that is extremely closely linked to his lyric poetry, drama, fairy-tales, novels and travel books. Andersen’s paper-cuts cannot just be separated from his written oeuvre and placed beside it. About 1,000 paper-cuts of all sizes still exist to this day – primitive figures and simple tableaux as well as more ornamental, sophisticated cuttings. They belong to a world of their own, but they all have their roots in precisely the same rich, widely embracing creative imagination which in the nineteenth century revolutionized world literature with a long series of fairy-tales told for children and for the child in every adult. This is why Andersen’s many paper-cuts cannot be dismissed, as they often have been in Andersen research, as mere diversions and little games or just be regarded as funny, entertaining illustrations of what is really at stake and essential: Andersen’s fairy-tale world in writing. more papercuts at the Royal Library
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Cut and Fold Book folding is not as difficult as it looks. These easy cut and fold book folding instructions will get you on your way.
Super simple Paper Helicopter Toy - this is a great little paper craft diy to make with the kids. Use any paper and make this fun toy. Great STEM activity.
