Card Making
How to Make a Paper Envelope to Fit Any Card
Fold an envelope around the card itself from a single square of paper. One short calculation gives the size of square for any card, with no template needed.
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Paper Art
Paper Cutting Art: Design and Cut Your First Silhouette
A papercut must hold together as one piece of paper. Learn to design with bridges, then cut and mount a leafy branch silhouette.
Paper Art
Paper Collage for Adults: Composition, Color and Technique
How to make a paper collage that looks considered: torn and cut edges, a limited palette, simple composition rules and gluing that stays flat.
Seasonal Paper Crafts
Paper Christmas Ornaments: Two Designs From Strips and Circles
Two light, unbreakable ornaments from the simplest shapes: an open sphere made of cardstock strips and a ribbed bauble made of folded circles.
Easy Paper Crafts
How to Make Paper Bookmarks: Three Simple Designs
Three paper bookmarks to make in an evening: a corner pocket, a layered strip with a ribbon hole and a woven strip, each with exact measurements.
Recycled Paper Crafts
Magazine Paper Crafts: Rolled Coasters From Old Pages
Fold old magazine pages into narrow strips and coil them into solid, colorful coasters. A slow, satisfying project with a sealed, usable result.
Paper Art
Layered Paper Art: Build a Shadow-Box Landscape
A sky, five paper hills and a few strips of foam tape: a first shadow-box landscape with real depth and soft shadows.
Recycled Paper Crafts
How to Make Handmade Paper From Scrap Paper at Home
Turn scrap paper into new sheets with a blender, a tub and a simple screen. A clear walkthrough of pulping, pulling, couching, pressing and drying.
Easy Paper Crafts
Easy Paper Crafts for Adults: Relaxing Projects to Try First
Eight low-pressure paper projects for adults, from bookmarks to a woven mat, with rough times and the skill each one builds.
Card Making
Card Making for Beginners: Supplies, Sizes and Your First Card
Standard card sizes, the right cardstock and the simple layered structure behind most handmade cards, with exact measurements for a first 4.25 × 5.5 in card.
Recycled Paper Crafts
Book Page Crafts: What to Make From Damaged Old Books
Worn-out books still hold good paper. How to choose a book you can cut without regret, remove pages cleanly, and turn them into envelopes, bookmarks, garlands and more.
Paper Craft Techniques
Beginner Paper Craft Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Warped panels, ragged edges and cracked folds all have simple causes. Learn to read the symptom, find the cause and fix it on the next piece.