Recycled Paper: making a bag

I measured 28 * 22 cm       

Tutorial wrap gifts

Two Bottle Wrap & Carry

Recycling paper: party hats

For my birthday brunch we all made newspaper party hats. We had such a great time gathering flowers and creating instant and custom made hats. What a wonderful way to recycle newspapers! You can just throw them in the compost at the end of the party. My nieces were delighted to make them all over again for this tutorial.

Materials:
-newspaper
-masking tape
-flowers (fresh or paper)
-scissors

Recycling paper:

Tutorial: Newspaper Hat  By Liz Goulet Dubois

What You’ll Need:

• newspaper page
• tape
• decorations

How to Make It:

Presents birthday: make a paper cone

I heart paper cones. These sweet cones can be used for almost every holiday season, gift wrapping or party favors, the list is long. Made in coordinating colors and pretty stylish embellishments i’m sure that the receiver of a paper cone will be very excited to see what it is hiding inside.

When I first posted a paper cone a loooong time ago lots of you asked me for a tutorial. With Valentine’s Day soon approaching, I decided to make it in the classic Valentine’s colors: Pink and red. So I hope that you will enjoy yourself with my little crafty: How to make a paper cone tutorial.

Gift presents: Love Your Smile

Happy Valentine's Day everyone ! Today I'm sharing a flip top box tutorial created as my guest project for Ladybuy Blessings. I filled it with little sweets for SJ who's always ready with a cheery smile when I need help at KCK. Hope you had a wonderful CHA trip SJ.

Recycling paperr: Coiled Magazine Paper Bowls

As I’ve mentioned before-I’ve been fascinated with paper crafts this year.  It really appeals to my frugal nature to make something lovely out of  junk mail, catalogs, old books and magazines!  I already tried making folded paper books, so it was time to try something interesting with magazines and catalogs.
Coiled Magazine Paper Bowls are an attractive, artistic, sustainable craft that anyone can make. They are great as conversation starters, decorator pieces and can be given as gifts.  Since almost everyone has magazines and catalogs lying around they are (practically) free to make!

These look even better in person-I'm not a great photographer.

Although this craft will take you some time, it isn’t difficult at all.  Here we go with the tutorial!

Materials:

Magazine pages
Tape
Modge Podge/Glue

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Directions:

Step 1: Fold your magazine slats.

Remove pages from the magazine or catalog.  Although you can use any of them, the more colorful pages will give your finished bowl more color.

Fold your magazine page in half down the middle.


Fold both edges in towards the middle crease.

Fold the new outside edges in to the center again.
 And fold the edges in to the center a final time.

Finally fold it in half down the center.
Note:  The finished dimensions of your paper “slat” are important.  If it is too thick, it will be hard to coil, and the finished width of the slat itself effects the look of the bowl.  I personally think that the finished product looks better with a narrower paper “slat”.  You can even cut each page in half legnthwise to make a thinner, and easier to coil, slat.
Tada! A folded slat. Notice by continually folding in to the center you get rid of any rough edges that you may have had from tearing the pages out of the magazine.
Repeat until you have a lot of slats.

Step 2: Tape the slats.

I like to join the slats with tape.  You simply pull off a piece of tape, lay it on your surface, then lay the two slats you are joining end to end and wrap the tape around.

A close up of the taped join.

I like to tape all of my slats together before I start coiling-typically 3 at a time.

So you wind up with a big pile of slats 3 magazine pages long.

Step 3: Coil the slats.

This is the part that takes a bit of coordination & hand strength.  I like to do all my coiling at once-it’s not the kind of project you want to stop in the middle of because it will come unwound.  If you desperately need to stop, try securing it with rubber bands (have those on hand before you get going!)
So just bend the first slat and start coiling.  When you get to the end of your slat, tape a new one on and keep on coiling!

I like to make my coil as tight as I can.  Once I’ve got a bit of coil done, I lay my palm down flat on it and kind of  “spin” it tighter. . .not really sure how to explain that better. . .

Keep going until the coil is as big as what you want the diameter of the bowl to be.  Then tape the end of the last slat down to the bowl itself.

Step 4: Form the bowl.

Now comes the tricky part.  You have to slowly push the sides of the bowl up.  Be careful or you might wind up with this:

Much cussing ensues. Trust me-it is much harder to coil the bowl once you’ve got all the slats joined.  Grrr.

Here you can see the formed bowl from the top (this is how I think they look the neatest).

And here it is from the side.

Step 6: Seal the bowl.

Now you can trim off any little flaps of tape you can see (use an exacto style knife).  Once it is all beautiful it is time to seal it.  I like to use Modge Podge as a sealant, but you could try watered down glue or even some polyurethane.

I give each side 2-3 coats.  It will take quite a while to dry fully-that paper can soak up the glue a bit on the first coat.
Aren’t they pretty?!?
Now I want to try to make a “square” bowl and a long oval mantle bowl.
Source: frugalupstate.com

Origami Business Card Holder - tutorial

Here's a fun way to store those business cards. You will need an 8x8in square sheet of paper and a couple of business cards. In this tutorial, I used a larger sheet for demonstration. Have fun!


1. Begin with the white side of the paper facing you. Fold the paper until you get 16 squares. Fold the sides toward the middle, and then fold the sides toward the crease you just made. Repeat on all four sides of the square.

Make the Ultimate paper plane...

You will need:

A4 sheets of paper

What to do



The Ultimate

1. Lay the A4 sheet of paper in front of you portrait way up.

2. Take the 2 top corners and fold into the middle so they meet and at the same time make a point at the top (arrow shape), flatten the folds.

Make a simple paper plane.

You will need:

A4 sheets of paper

What to do

The Classic Dart

1. Fold the paper in half lengthways, crease and open out.

2. Take the two front corners and fold to meet the centre crease.

3. Fold the edges made by step 2 to meet the centre crease. Try to keep the nose point sharp.

4. Fold the outside edges together and re-flatten the first crease.

Presents for kids: Make a simple paper plane.

You will need:

What to do

The Sweptback Wing

1. Fold the short edge to meet the long edge and crease. Carefully cut off the remaining section and fold it in half lengthways, this will become the tail.

Make the simplest paper flying machine - a helicopter.

You will need:

 

A4 sheets of paper
Scissors
Paper Clips

 

What to do

Make a Cootie Catcher (Origami Fortune Teller)

These bring back fond memories from when I was young and I and my children have had a great time making them together. They are really easy, and kids of all ages can have loads of laughs inventing funny, cryptic or cheeky sayings to write as fortunes. They are a quick and fun way to spend a rainy afternoon.

You will need:

Paper or thin card
Ruler and pencil
Scissors
Bone folder
Coloured pencils or coloured paper & glue
Pen/pencil

Summer art projects for kids

Summer Kid Crafts: Make a Crazy Paper Thing

I wanted to show you my own video of how to make this but then I realized that the video I saw was good enough. Why try and go beyond what has already been done? If you're looking for a way to entertain this is one of the easier and better origami projects out there and it's a good boredom buster for older children.