Hi bloggers! I am posting very interesting theme this time. Its about under water world i.e. Marine world. Its a huge topic in which we can make many things. I have tried my best to give each and every detail of under water corals, shells and fishes. I have started by making handmade shadowbox. I have colored it with blue acrylic color. On the base I colored some sandy look and earth under water. Here in below picture I have created cute little octopus, big one and little one. And also one fish. here some corals which are made using peach and maroon 3mm quilling strips with some grass. These are cute three gold fishes with black strips. Here are the group of some tiny blue fishes moving here and there I created Corals with flesh tint color strip and purple strip. Also some shells with pearl in side it. One Red Star Fish. Some watery Stones in circular shape using black and off white strips. some shells at the bottom. Here also some corals with Orange , Yellow strips. And some grass off course. I pasted some fringe flowers between grass at right side. Again some shells with pearl. here is a view of half portion of my creation. I also created cute Red Clown fish. Full view Hope you all will like my effort. Please comment. i am attaching this post for Indian quilling Challenge group No. 30

This is the BEST paper tube Koi Fish, and one of several other Lunar New Year Animal inspired art lessons that we offer. This fun DIY craft is an original idea from ART CAMP Studio. It's a great year round project for all ages.

I've always adored origami, but was somewhat intimidated about giving it a shot. I don't know why I waited so long as it's based on some simple foundations and is incredibly addictive. I started one weekend and was so totally absorbed that my partner Robbie laughed when he came into the room and I was grinning amist a sea of paper. He grimmanced, "Oh no, Nadine has found another new hobby"! I knew immediately though, that I could make my designs easily in Silhouette Studio and use my trustee Silhouette Cameo to make all the necessary cuts and scores. These little lanterns are incredibly versatile. Here are some suggestions that friends have made on how to use them: Can be used as pretty party decorations and double up as party favours to house some chocolates, sweeties or small toys Add jokes and hang on a twig tree for an evening BBQ String as cute bunting decoration Lit up with fairy lights (make sure to spray with fire retardant) To hold clues for a scavenger hunt. Stacked vertically, they make lovely wedding decorations Use vellum or translucent acetate for garden lanterns Fold flat Christmas tree decorations Scaled up as a bedroom lampshade What you’ll need: Silhouette CAMEO Paper Free Silhouette compatible cut file STEP ONE: Prepare and Cut the Design Download the free cut file and open the Silhouette compatible file from within Silhouette Studio. Cut on the reverse side of your paper. Red lines are cuts, black are scores. To score, you can use the blade on a very low setting or a sketch pen. I used a sketch pen, thickness 33 on double cut. For thick scrapbook paper, I sent the score lines to the silhouette twice to get a good deep fold line. STEP ONE: Mountain, Valley and Universal folds I'm sure as kids we've all made accordian fans. This is the foundation of origami. A fold towards you is called a valley fold and one away from you is a mountain fold. Folding a valley fold then making it into a mountain fold creates a universal fold. Make univerals folds along the parallel running score lines. Then make mountain folds for all of the centre zig-zag scores. This should be easy as the back of the paper has already been scored, meaning it'll naturally want to become a mountain fold. I find the easiest way is to pinch the centre line and create the zig-zag fold my pushing into the point as in the photo below: Once repeated along the length of the centre folds, you paper should look like this: STEP Two: V-Pleats V-Pleats are where the magic happens as they allow the shape to stretch and become 3D. The angled lines are mountain folds and they allow the parralel lines runing through the V to change from mountain to valley folds. To create a V-pleat, bring edges of the V together, as shown below: If you turn the paper and look from the edge, the first completed V-pleat will look like this: Starting the first pleat is the hardest part, after that the paper will guide you somewhat automatically. Once repeated along the length of the zig-zag, the shape will look as below: The piece can be folded flat - a bonus for storage. STEP Three: Thread and Glue Flatten an edge and apply some doubles-sided tape. I find it easier to thread the ribbon through the holes when the shape is flat, so feed through all holes apart from the two end holes. Bring the two ends of the paper together, overlapping the last concertina . Feed the thread through the last two holes into the centre. DESIGN TWO: Double V-Pleats For the second design, a rectangular shape that has two sets of zigzag lines, I start by following steps one and two above. Repeat on the process on the second zigzag. The shape should look as below: The shape folds flat as before, but this time in a U-shape. Repeat the steps to glue and thread the holes as above. EXPLORE VARIATIONS Moving the zigzag line off-centre will create a pear-shaped lantern. Making the zigzags wider will make the shape longer, whilst a narrow zigzag will create a fatter lantern. The lanterns can be made fuller by cutting two strips and taping them together, overlapping by one concertina tab. Paper is the obvious choice for this project, however I experiemented with folding Silhouette vellum that I printed a pattern onto. It worked well and would be very cute with fairy lights. THE FINISHED PRODUCT Profile | My Blog | Pinterest DESIGNS USED: Free Silhouette Compatible file PRODUCTS USED:

As I got out all of our Christmas decorations this year, I found a stack of Christmas cards that for some reason my pack rat self has saved for the last 10 years. Since I’ve saved them this long, I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away. Instead we got creative and put them to use in other ways. Here are some of the top ways you can put old greeting and Christmas cards to use: If you want to save them: Get rings from the local office supply store or craft store or use ribbon to bind your cards

Thanks to Pinterest I found some really great ideas for the kiddos' Valentines this year. For the ones above we attempted pencils instead, ...

Paper flowers, Party DIY Paper Flowers: Tropical Party Set Video Tutorial & Templates Tropical décor is in now, like never! With our paper party décor

Spring is finally here! Maybe it's been spring for awhile where you are, but I live in Canada, so it takes a little bit longer to warm up where I am. And my oh my, have I ever missed the flowers and the leaves! I love walking my 6 year old daughter to school each morning and seeing the magnolias just ready to bloom, the buds on the trees just ready to burst and the bright yellow forsythia flowers highlighting our backyard. I love this time of year! And since I've been in such a wonderful spring mood, I decided to make

紙でできたアイテムは、温かみがあってほっこり。しかも軽くて扱いやすいのがいいところ。片づけるのも簡単です。カレンダーや新年の飾りをはじめ、…

Para regalar a mis queridas amigas preparé estas cajitas con detalles navideños que contienen dos adornos para el árbol. Las cajas rectangulares se pliegan a partir de dos cuadrados de cartulina, uno para la base y otro para la tapa. Tienen la particularidad de que al cerrarse se encastran de tal manera que los distintos colores se alternan en los costados marcando las diagonales. Desconozco el nombre de la caja y su autor. Utilicé dos cuadrados de cartulina de 22 x 22 cm y la caja cerrada mide 11 x 5,5 cm. Plegué pequeños arbolitos de Navidad y un Papá Noel para decorar el exterior de las cajas. Siguiendo con los modelos en base a multiplicidad de pliegues en una sola hoja de papel o teselados, hice dos adornos para el árbol. Utilizan como base un patrón de pliegues geométricos a manera de grilla (teselado). Estos múltiples plegados permiten obtener formas realmente increíbles. El adorno blanco, en forma de gota lo plegué en un papel muy delgado. No es necesario utilizar pegamento para el cierre. Partiendo de un papel de 42 x 8,7 cm obtuve una pieza de 5,5 x 7 cm aproximadamente. Me encanta la forma resultante. Para la estrella dorada utilicé cartulina perlada de 120 grs, de 42 x 7 cm., y obtuve una pieza de 6,5 cm de diámetro aproximadamente. Tampoco es necesario unir con pegamento. Si te gustó alguna de las piezas y querés comprarlas, esta es mi dirección de e-mail: [email protected]