Paper Twist Crafts

How To : Craft a magnet boat with your kids

In this video, we learn how to craft a magnet boat with kids. You will need: a paper clip, a small triangle piece of foam, 1 magnet, 1 recycled stick, 1 recycled popsicle stick 1 bead, and a hot glue gun. First, attach the toothpick to the bead, then glue the triangle to the t ...more

How To : Make a mini Big Shot Box with Stampin' Up!

This video tutorial is in the Arts & Crafts category where you will learn how to make a mini Big Shot Box with Stampin' Up! For this you got to use the Bigz Die Box #2. Cut a Whisper white card stock at 6" x 11", place it on the die box and run it through the machine to get th ...more

How To : Craft a heart shaped bookmark

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a heart bookmark. First, take a sheet of paper and fold it in half, folding the crease. Now, take a pencil and draw two heart humps from one edge to the next. After this, cut them out, leaving the fold together. Trim any edges that aren't ...more

How To : Make a dangling picture frame

This video tutorial is in the Arts & Crafts which will show you how to make a dangling picture frame. You will need pictures that you want to frame, old CD cases, a drill with a very thin drill bit and fishing line. Remove all paper from inside the CD cases, cut the pictures t ...more

How To : Write in lowercase calligraphy letters

In this tutorial, we learn how to write in lowercase calligraphy letters. To begin, you will write in lower case letters just use a more find edge then you do when writing normally. The letters will all have a twist to the edge of them to make them look more fancy than normal. ...more

How To : Make quick cuttlebug cards

In order to make cuttlebug cards, you will need the following: cuttlebugs, ribbons, two sided tape, a trimmer, and cardstock. You can find cuttlebugs at your local hobby or craft store. Place your cuttlebug, between cardstock and run it through a machine, in order to make the ...more

How To : Make a pretty journal out of watercolor books

Blogs are a great way to both jot down your thoughts and share them with the rest of the world to build a community based on common interests, but we yearn for the days of good old journal writing on real, actual paper. Whether it's the smell of newly pressed pages, the beaut ...more

How To : Make your own rub-on transfers for card design

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make their own rub-on. This allows users to transfer any designs onto card stock. Users will need to first print the design onto a sheet of acetate. Simply place the acetate paper over the card stock. Then use any kind of tool and s ...more

How To : Make a vertical Easter greeting card

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to make a vertical Easter greeting card. Take a 6x6 yellow card and fold it in half. Using the Valentrio Fiskars corner punch, you can punch one corner. Cut a 2 1/2” wide metallic cardstock, a 1” wide paper strip, sta ...more

How To : Create a box to hold a mini album or small cards

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to create a box to hold a mini album or small cards. Take a shiny card stock 10.5 x 6 inches. On the 6" side, score at .5" and 1" on both sides. On the longer side, score at 3, 3.5, 7.5 and 8 inches. Cut out the corners o ...more

How To : Make window cards

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to make window cards. Supplies needed are trimmer with scoring blade, Fiskars templates, Fiskars ultra shape xpress, glitter, cardstock and embellishments. Take a 81/2 x 6 inch cardstock , score the center at 3” mark an ...more

How To : Make easy kid placemats and set the table

Now when it comes to setting the table you just need three things: fork, plate, and a napkin. But for some, things are more complicated than that. Sometimes they feature the soup spoon , salad fork, and so on and so forth. Although this video doesn't cover every single utensil ...more

How To : Craft a duct tape book cover

You know how they always make you cover your books in school? Doesn't using a paper bag kinda stink? They always rip by the middle of the school year and everyone has the same one. So, why not be totally unique and make a heavy duty cover out of duct tape? This tutorial will s ...more

How To : Make a miniature Christmas wreath

The equipment that you need is pliers, beads, beading wire, tinsel, some miniature flowers and a plain wreath. Twist a section of beads onto the wire, 5 beads make a nice grouping. Twist the 5 beads onto a single wire to make a bunch. Make enough bunches to cover the wreath. F ...more

How To : Recycle a milk carton into a tabletop lantern

In this video tutorial, viewers will learn how to make a milk carton lantern. This lantern uses recycled items. The materials required for this lamp are: a milk carton, unryu paper, colored newspaper, raffia, ruler, glue gun, hole puncher, X-acto knife, glue stick and scissors ...more

How To : Make decorations for Halloween

In this video you learn how to make fun, creative, and cheap decorations for Halloween. You learn how to make Halloween "Koozies" and how to make a Halloween tree. This video shows the materials you'll need to make each one. The materials you'll need for the "Koozies" are 1/4 ...more

How To : Make a paper mache Venetian Mask

Do you need a Venetian mask but can't afford to buy a fancy one? This tutorial teaches you how to make a Venetian style mask by yourself with some basic supplies you can buy from a craft store. You'll need a blank mask or some plaster strips, decorations (like ribbons, crystal ...more

How To : Make a double accordion photo album

JoAnn from Emerald City Elegance Paper Crafting demonstrates how to make a double accordion photo album. It's a cute and fun way to display your photos, and it's made simple with JoAnn's easy instructions. She takes us through the step-by-step process, indicating the proper to ...more

How To : Make a large recipe card file

In this video, you will find out how to make a large recipe card file from Emerald City Elegance Paper Crafting. Anyone who loves to collect recipes knows how quickly you can fill up a little recipe box so make this file to keep all your treasured recipes together. You can eas ...more

How To : Make a great looking 3D paper snowflake

The video creator teaches us how to make a three dimensional snowflake. He plays some rather Christmas-y music in the background and goes right into explaining the process. He briefly explains what he will do but as the video continues, he focuses on showing rather than explai ...more

News : 1200 Old Light Bulbs Make One Dazzling Chandelier

Tim Fishlock’s piece entitled What Watt? showcases 1,243 suspended retired light bulbs, the center illuminated by one low-energy fluorescent bulb. Beautiful eco-friendly design. Says Fishlock, "What Watt? is a memorial to the incandescent lightbulb. It’s a spherical chandeli ...more

How To : Use Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Resist technique

Learn how to use the Tim Holtz' Distress Crackle Resist technique with this tutorial that gives step by step instructions on applying this method to a Manila tag. Materials you will need include distress crackle paint, distress ink (for this project, in "Vintage Photo", "Fire ...more

How To : Origami an eagle plane

Fold a paper-plane designed by Joost Langeveld. Origami! Fun pastime & skilled craft. Watch this origami how to video to learn how to fold this eagle plane. With origami, practice makes perfect. So practice those origami folds and you will have a beautiful plane. On my website ...more

How To : Make an oval box

This is a video tutorial on how to make an oval box using card stock, rubber stamps, and ribbon. Decorate paper to use as surface to your cardboard oval box. You can also use an oval stencil to make varying sized oval shapes for the box and lid shape. Have fun crafting this ni ...more

How To : Craft an original stencil

Stencils allow you make an image for easy duplication. The stencil can be used for tagging, fabric painting, t-shirts, or whatever else you want. Follow along with the steps in this video from Piece of Craft. You will need an X-acto knife or a wood burning tool (for advanced s ...more

How To : Create a summer picnic challenge with Crayola

Pack some fun for your next gathering of family and friends. Imaginations run wild with everyday picnic supplies and your favorite Crayola Crayons and Markers. You will need crayons, markers, colored pencils, scissors, glue, tape, and picnic supplies (paper plates, napkins, cu ...more

How To : Make a creative holiday card with Crayola

Learn how to make a window holiday card with this tutorial. This is a fun arts and crafts project to do with your children. You will need to use the Crayola Cutter to create peek-through windows in your card. The materials needed for this project are 2 large pieces of white pa ...more

How To : Weave with paper index cards with Make Magazine

Learn how to weave with Travis Meinolf who's featured on the cover of CRAFT: 08, the Weaving issue. He explains how to make weaving loom out of 3 X 5" notecards, yarn and a pencil. After assembling the basic structure of the loom, create tension in the loom by attaching one en ...more

How To : Paint Your Nails with Loose Glitter

Sparkling glitter nail polish is always a popular favorite but buying different bottles to get different colors is a waste of money. You can paint your nails with pure loose glitter in just a few easy steps. Things You Will Need Bottle of clear nail polish Tube of loose glit ...more

How To : Make a diaper "cake"

No baby shower is complete without a diaper cake, a gift that can also serve as a beautiful centerpiece. Here's how to make yours extra memorable. Step 1: Roll up diapers Begin rolling diapers, two at a time, holding them together in the center with a rubber band. Step 2: En ...more

How To : Make lanterns out of old jars

Why buy lanterns for your backyard when you can recycle empty jars into beautiful ones? This video will show you how to make lanterns out of old jars. Step 1. Wash and dry Wash glass jars in hot, soapy water and let them air dry. Step 2. Make templates Cut templates out of ...more

How To : Use an airbrush

Learn how to use an airbrush. Marble allowed Michelangelo to create his David. An airbrush will allow you to draw a dragon on a conversion van. Step 1. Sketch out painting Lightly sketch out your painting on the hot-press board. Step 2. Erase extra lines Erase any extra li ...more

How To : Make a papier mâché mask

Learn how to make a papier mâché mask. Make a papier-mache mask for Halloween, a masquerade party, Carnival time, or anytime! You Will Need * An old tablecloth * A work smock * A clean, empty plastic gallon jug, labels removed * Strong scissors * A craft knife * An elastic b ...more

How To : Make Icosahedral Planet Ornaments

In honor of the new Astronomy World, I thought we should look at a few planetary icosahedrons. The icosahedron is the most round of the Platonic solids with twenty faces, thus has the smallest dihedral angles. This allows it to unfold into a flat map with a reasonably acceptab ...more

News : Palm-Sized Pentakis Dodecahedron

I finally got around to making the pentakis dodecahedron from the instructions in Math Craft admin Cory Poole's blog post. It's not tightened/straightened up yet because I just noticed that I have two black and white and two blue and green compound modules next to each other ( ...more

How To : Make Nested Cube and Octahedron Boxes

These boxes are inspired by a comment from Imaatfal Avidya on a corkboard post on Platonic polyhedra from sonobe units. Imaatfal was commenting about how the cube and octahedron are related to each other. "There is something cool and special about the platonic solids—there is ...more

How To : Make 6-Sided Kirigami Snowflakes

We've all made them. I remember making hundreds of paper snowflakes when I was in elementary school. You take a piece of paper and fold it in half, then fold it in half again. You now have a piece that is one fourth the size of the original. Now you fold it in half diagonally. ...more

How To : Fold Wet Origami

Sounds like an anomaly, right? When I was a kid folding frogs, my mother gave me origami paper that was most certainly dry. But the works below by Vietnamese-American artist Giang Dinh were folded with one *wet* piece of paper. It's a technique called "Wet-Folding", invented b ...more

How To : Apply a twisted polka dot art design to your nails

Julie teaches us how to apply a twisted polka dot art design to your nails in this tutorial. you will first need to make sure you have a pink and white nail polish that are quick to dry. Now, paint your nails pink over the entire nail and allow them to dry all the way. After t ...more

News : REVIEW - Day and Knight

Dumb but honest. Like a golden retriever covered in ketchup Cameron Diaz does what she can with what little she's given to work with in James Mangold's brainless, hyperactive and utterly rote spy-romance-thriller Knight and Day. Paired with the increasingly wooden, increasing ...more

How To : Use border punches & a stamp

This video is part of the lawn fawn card series and it explains the making of a card using border punches and a stamp.The materials required are a set card-polka dot basics from paper tray ink.This card has a variety of dots on it. Remove the big open circle polka dot and lay ...more

How To : Make a stained glass picture frame

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to make a stained glass picture frame. This video is from Artists Resource. You will need a Marabu GlasArt kit, some white spirit, a china graph pencil, scissors, a ruler, sheets of scrap paper, lead tape and a picture fr ...more

How To : Make mini Pocky Sticks for your American Girl doll

Kitzykk shows how to craft mini Pocky stick boxes for dolls in this video. She starts with a real Pocky stick box and carefully opens the box on all ends before unfolding it to lie flat. Using a printer and scanner, she scans a picture of the unfolded Pocky box and drags the s ...more

How To : Dye and marble Easter eggs

During Easter, everybody stocks up on the eggs because dying eggs is a great Easter activity. But there's something else you can try… dying and marbling. Watch this video recipe to learn how to dye and marble Easter eggs. A new twist to Easter eggs. Yvette Taylor demonstrates ...more

How To : Make a chain mail bracelet

You can learn to make a beautiful chain mail bracelet by watching this video. The bracelet is easy to make and affordable too. Start by sliding two silver jumper rings onto a paper clip. Two copper jumper rings are passed through the silver rings and twisted to complete the lo ...more

How To : Make a piñata with household materials

Need a pinata for Cinco De Mayo or special occasion? This week Meg of Decor It Yourself shows you how with some simple house hold materials. Piñatas are a fun Mexican tradition, and are as easy to make as any paper mache project. Check out this how-to video to get ready for yo ...more

How To : Make a romantic bedroom canopy with Threadbanger

In this home decorating video, Threadbanger shows us how to spice up the interior style of your bedroom. Meg shows us how-to make our bedrooms feel more romantic with a DIY bed canopy. Still looking for the perfect Valentine to send to someone special? Look no further! Meg sha ...more

How To : Make a Hyperbolic Paraboloid Using Skewers

In Monday's post, we created a sliceform model of a hyperbolic paraboloid. In today's post, we will create a similar model using skewers. The hyperbolic paraboloid is a ruled surface, which means that you can create it using only straight lines even though it is curved. In fac ...more

Checkmate and... Checkmate : Bizarre Three-Way Chess Game

In a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory, character Sheldon Cooper designed a highly complicated three-person game of chess, with an odd-shaped nonagon board and two new pieces—serpent and old woman. Seemingly pioneering, in truth, three-player chess has been around since th ...more

How To : Make giraffe prints with Ranger's alcohol ink

Patti Behan shows us how to make this beautiful giraffe prints to create an amazing card. You will need: Non-Stick Craft Sheet,Adirondack Alcohol ink in Pool and Aqua,Adirondack ink in pitch black,Applicator tool and Felt, Ribbons,Clear Stamp Set,Acrylic block White pearls, W ...more

How To : Make hand mirrors

Make a homemade hand mirror with paint, paper, glue, and tiles. Learn how to make decoupage or mosaic hand mirrors in this free home crafting video. Part 1 of 26 - How to Make hand mirrors. Make hand mirrors - Part 2 of 26. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage.co ...more

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