Category Archives: craft

Peter Callesen

A long time ago I stop thinking that works with paper are just simple origami. Now I know that origami can be very complex and that paper is just the bennning for a whole world of fantastic creations. That’s the … Continue reading

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Jen Stark

Artists can create incredible and very coloured sculptures using pencils, crayons and papers, like Jen Stark does. Working with the colours, shapes and depth, she creates wonderful paper sculptures with beautiful effects. The power of effects of colours is also … Continue reading

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Custom Toy Lab

This seems to be pretty good idea: Custom Toy Lab: Custom Designer Vinyl Toys, Paper Toys & Plush Toys. CustomToyLab.com has been created to support all artists involved in the custom toy scene. The site is created by Tahir and … Continue reading

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Valentine’s Day Linkdump

For all of you that celebrate… a happy Valentine’s Day. I won’t celebrate, but that isn’t an excuse to not blog about it – it never was. And that’s why I made a selection of links to all the romantic … Continue reading

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Flying Pig

What to do when a rainy day destroys all your plans? Stay at home and do some cool paper craft! And I already know a nice story to buy great automata paper models and kits: Flying Pig. Not only know, … Continue reading

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Museum of Fantastic Specimens

The Museum of Fantastic Specimens is is an on-line collection of creatures “curated” by Hajime Emoto. All of the creatures showcased in the museum are sculpted from paper, modelling paste and bamboo. The whole site is in Japanese, with a … Continue reading

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How-to Fold Paper Roses

One more suggestion for Valentines’ day: paper roses. DIY Maven give all the instructions of How to Fold a Paper Rose, with links to two tutorials, WikiHow and bloom4ever, and a video showing step by step of this not so … Continue reading

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Carlo Giovani

The very talented Brazilian, and maybe Paulistano, artist Carlo Giovani makes incredible 3D illustrations for magazines and advertising. Sometimes he plays with legumes and fruits, other times with Lego, other materials, but most of time with paper, creating articulated paper … Continue reading

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Swedish Papier-mâché

Martin Klasch was kind enough to scan a vintage Swedish book of papier-mâché, probably printed in 1969. The catchy colours are going to get your attention, but if the Swedish instructions don’t help a lot don’t worry. Go to Papier … Continue reading

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Tetra Pak Animation

The Taiwanese site of Tetra Pak has a super cute animation for TV campaign with its mascot: an adorable green box called Le Le Pak. The site by itself is lovely, with many small gifts, like wallpapers (I got one), … Continue reading

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