Tag: crafts

December 23, 2013 at 1:38 pm

Parents Recreate Movie Scenes with Baby Son and Lots of Cardboard

Parents Recreate Movie Scenes with Baby Son and Lots of Cardboard

Lilly, Leon & Orson @ Cardboard Box Office Website | Facebook | Twitter When parents Lilly and Leon moved from New Zealand to Sydney, Australia they found themselves with two things: 1. A lot of cardboard boxes from the move 2. A newborn baby named Orson who is now 10-months old With their social…

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December 22, 2013 at 4:25 pm

92-Year-Old Grandma Shares 30 Years of Embroidered Temari Balls

92-Year-Old Grandma Shares 30 Years of Embroidered Temari Balls

A stunning gallery of embroidered temari balls by a 92-year-old grandmother who has been practicing the craft for over thirty years.

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December 16, 2013 at 3:29 pm

Mark Khaisman Makes Art with Everyday Packing Tape

Mark Khaisman Makes Art with Everyday Packing Tape

Artist Mark Khaisman Born in 1958 in Kiev, Ukraine, artist Mark Khaisman studied Art and Architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute in Russia. Now living in Philadelphia, USA, Khaisman uses rolls of brown packaging tape to create incredible works of art. Mark characterizes his work as ‘pictorial illusions formed by light and shadow’. The…

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December 5, 2013 at 1:22 pm

Artist Transforms a Single Room into a Series of Surreal Fantasy Worlds

Artist Transforms a Single Room into a Series of Surreal Fantasy Worlds

JeeYoung Lee is a Korean artist currently living in Seoul. A recent graduate of Hongik University, Lee transforms her small studio space into a series of surreal fantasy worlds. None of the images below are photoshopped. Everything is built and created in the same small room that measures a modest 11.8′ x 13.5′ x…

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November 29, 2013 at 4:54 pm

Celebrity Portraits Carved into Corrugated Cardboard

Celebrity Portraits Carved into Corrugated Cardboard

Artist and redditor Elliot Frantz (u/thejehosephat) carved these amazing portraits into everyday pieces of corrugated cardboard. Using a simple X-acto blade and lots of patience, these relief-like portraits took Frantz about 16 hours each to complete. On reddit, where these were submitted yesterday, Frantz says Hepburn was the most challenging as her hair would…

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November 24, 2013 at 5:37 pm

Artistic Mom Makes Amazing Mosaic with 10,000 ‘Dots’ of Play-Doh

Artistic Mom Makes Amazing Mosaic with 10,000 'Dots' of Play-Doh

One day, artist and mother of three Lacy Knudson was playing with Play-Doh with her children when she serendipitously mixed some colours together and made her first ‘dot’. It dawned on her that these dots could be a creative way to make art and still be with her children at the same time. Play-Doh…

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November 19, 2013 at 1:06 pm

A Single Thread Wrapped Around Thousands of Nails

A Single Thread Wrapped Around Thousands of Nails

Kumi Yamashita, whose mind-blowing shadow artworks have been featured before, uses a single, unbroken thread wrapped around thousands of nails to create stunning portraits of women and men. In the ongoing series entitled Constellation (a nod to the Greek tradition of tracing mythical figures in the sky), the Japanese artist (living and working in…

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October 23, 2013 at 5:11 pm

These Were Made With Just a Pair of Scissors

These Were Made With Just a Pair of Scissors

Hina Aoyama is an artist from Yokohama, Japan. Currently living in Ferney-Voltaire, France, Aoyama began exploring ‘ultra-fine lacy paper cuttings’ in 2000. Using a simple pair of scissors, Aoyama creates intricately delicate works of art. Her steady hand and incredible patience has earned her a variety of awards and her artwork has been exhibited around…

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August 22, 2013 at 12:35 pm

The Most Intricate Hand Cut Paper Art You Will See Today

The Most Intricate Hand Cut Paper Art You Will See Today

Rogan Brown is an Anglo-Irish artist that specializes in intricate hand cut paper art sculptures. Currently living in the ‘wilds’ (i.e., in a forest on the side of a mountain) of Southern France, Brown explains: “I look for patterns and repeated motifs that run through natural phenomena at different scales, from the microscopic to…

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June 17, 2013 at 3:58 pm

Custom Designed Animal Origami by Nguyen Hung Cuong

Custom Designed Animal Origami by Nguyen Hung Cuong

Nguyễn Hùng Cường is a Vietnamese origami artist from Hanoi. Cuong tells All Things Paper that he has been folding since he was five years old, creating his first original design in 1999 when he was only 10; a simple pig based on the work of John Montroll. Although not a full-time origami artist,…

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