HANDMAIDEN: PAPER CRAFTING....COOLER THAN YOU THINK

I have a current love affair with paper craft...

I love the idea of creating something beautiful from something so common...

like these paper pulp or paper mache ornaments - filled with wonder

I ran right out and bought some of the blank paper mache ornament forms...

now I'm looking for the trees, the beads, the tiny deer, the little snowmen...

and paint and whispy snow and GLITTER...

but these folded paper ornaments look much simpler..

and not completely complicated

these look more complicated - however, they would be worth the trouble!

Old paperback book? A pattern and an exacto knife? I really want to try this, because, LOOK

so cute. I love the scarf and the twig arms and top hat...

need tiny black buttons!

the NOSE!

the snowmen are my favorites...

but there are trees too -

Fun to embellish these.

I have always been fascinated by quilling. I have greeting cards that I bought because they had quilled designs. I framed them! Honestly, though, I'm not sure I would have the patience to do this - but I'd like to try.

A cute scrapbook paper or heavy wrapping paper can dress up a stack of books

for the holidays

Copies of vintage images embellished and on wooden blanks

make really cool ornaments - add a little velvet ribbon, tiny pinecones, greens and glitter..

These ornaments look more complicated than they are. You just need to have the right thickness of paper and glue in the right places..

Musical paper heart on a big glitter snowflake -

Or the same with a rosette and a pearl

Maybe not technically a paper ornament. Its a metal tart tin, but the paper postcard art makes it

See what I mean about paper?

Gorgeous stuff. Cool.

I like the holiday stuff...but these next ones have my heart...

paper butterfly wreath...

faux butterfly specimen dome...

butterfly silhouettes ... or faux specimens in frames

Another paper butterfly -

cute paper birds from music paper - these look simple

Sewn paper heart garland...

Paper punched dimensional butterflies - great framed in a shadow box

a darling bouquet in a salt shaker - paper and buttons....

paper echinacea - with real dried thistle centers...

I may have a slight problem...houses....little houses are my jam...

I have wooden houses, metal houses, pottery houses, vintage putz houses, cardboard glitter houses, and I have also been known to make paper houses with paint and glitter and tiny trees...

It's a lot of houses.

I think I need these too.