I find the idea of the tissue flower wall decoration nice :)
Links:
Tissue Flower Wall Decoration (Make a set of tissue decals)
wall art
Search Results for: tissue paper
Papermaché Lampshade
The papermaché lampshade seems to be easy to make – and made with this fresh green tissue paper it looks great, doesn’t it? :)
If this is too flimsy for you, take a look again at the previously presented papermaché lampshades :)
Links:
Papermaché Lampshade (Paper Mache Lampshade)
Here at unikatissima:
Papermaché Lampshades
Paper Napkin Pumpkin Favours
Don’t the little paper napkin pumpkin favours look cute? :)
Links:
Paper Napkin Pumpkin Favours (Easy Tissue Paper Pumpkin Favours)
Paper Flowers in Bottle Vase
That’s a cute vase that you can give away on Valentine’s Day, too, isn’t it?
If you don’t like it try one of the other vases here ;-)
I really like the paper flowers.
Links:
Tissue Paper Flowers and Juice Jar Vase
via: Make Tissue Paper Flowers and Juice Jar Vase!!
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘Valentine’s Day’
Entries containing the word ‘vase’
Entries containing the word ‘paper flower’
Tie-Dye Paper
I found a tutorial on how to tie-dye paper that is similar to my self coloured tissue papers but with the advantage that you dye proper stiff paper.
I have to try this, too ;-)
Links:
Tie-Dye Paper
Here at unikatissima: Self Coloured Tissue Papers
Floating Paper
Once I found the instruction on how to preserve leaves with beeswax. This way you can make the leaves for float on water.
I really liked the idea, but it is winter now and I thought that you can do the same with paper, similar to the beeswax collage.
Then I thought further and found out, that paper floats without wax also (goes muuuuch swifter! ;-))).
On the first photo you see a glass bowl with a simple tea light, the paper snippets are from some advertising junk mail.
For this photo I thought even further (which wasn’t easy ;-)) and spread on some confetti from the hole puncher.
I like it!
The only problem was the disposal when I wanted to throw away the confetti. I couldn’t fish them out without problems. Therefore I put a piece of tissue paper onto the gutter of my kitchen sink so that no confetti could pass through, and poured slowly the bowl on the tissue paper (if you pour too fast the tissue paper can slip). The water went through and the confetti assembled onto the tissue paper, so that I simply had to throw away the tissue paper with the confetti.
Links:
Preserving Leaves with Beeswax for Floating on Water
Here at unikatissima: Beeswax Collage
Paper Mache Bowl
Again I found a tutorial for making paper bowls. I found the bowls nice but not the way I wanted them.
Therefore I glued three, four layers of white tissue paper on using wallpaper glue – the ‘quite normal’ paper mache technique.
I really like this bowl, although I should possibly paint it.
Links:
(another) tutorial on how to make paper bowls (magazine bowl)
Here at unikatissima:
- Coiled Paper Basket
- Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width
- Papier Mache Recipes
- Flour Glue
- Search result for ‘bowl’
Nature Paper
Once I found a tutorial on how to make paper from vegetables, but I don’t find back the tutorial (it was at ARD-Buffet, but it seems to be too long ago).
On the photo you see a card made with cucumber paper for a friend for the end of fast.
How to make cucumber paper:
- Cut the cucumber in slices of about 0,5 cm / 0,2 inches.
- Put the slices between two layers of tissue paper.
They must overlap to form a sheet of paper! - Put everything into the microwave and put several plates as weight onto your paper-to-be.
- Heat at a high temperature for about 1 minute.
(Note: Please be careful when using the microwave!) - After 1 minute the tissue paper is wet, you have to change it. Also air the cucumber paper a little bit.
Repeat steps 2 – 5 until the tissue paper stays nearly dry.
Lay between new sheets of tissue paper and between several layers of old newspapers and put some weight on it.
About once a day you must replace the moist tissue paper and newspapers by dry ones.
After 2 – 3 days your cucumber paper is ready for use.
Cucumber seems to be one of the easiest vegetables to be used for paper. You can also use other vegetables, but I haven’t tried them and can’t say, how thick the slices must be and how long it takes.
The paper is real paper: You can write on it, you can cut it and so forth.
Embellish Plain Candles
Don’t they look good? :)
The embellishing of plain candles is very easy!
Links:
Embellish Plain Candles (Tissue Paper Candle Craft)
via: 12 Designer Ideas to Dress Up Plain Candles
=> scroll down to ‘Tissue Paper’
Printed Pictures on Candles
To design candle light with your own pictures I presented the faux quilt votives and the clip art candles before.
Here it goes a step further because you actually transfer your self-printed pictures to the candles.
Links:
Printed Pictures on Candles (Transferring Ink to Candles)
via: Transferring Ink to Candles – Personalized candles (just need wax paper, tissue paper, sharpies & hair dryer)
Here at unikatissima:
Faux Quilt Votives
Clip Art Candles