Recently
Cool Mom Picks shared a tutorial for making paper snowflakes out of junk mail. This is right up my alley. Since I'm trying to go through my Marthas a few at a time, this seemed like a perfect way to find beautiful, colorful photos as well as recycle a magazine or two. The
Michele Made Me tutorial is where I started. After I looked at her steps and tried a few, I decided I needed more ideas for paper cuts. Here's the
Martha Stewart tutorial, but you can also just Google "paper snowflake blog" under images and get a whole bunch of ideas. I'm going to make more, but here's what I did so far.
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| January 2011, oh, how I'll miss thee. (I only save a few recipes and one craft idea.) |
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| Some beautiful pages from Martha. |
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| More lovely pages. |
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| To start you need a square of paper. I cheat by folding a right triangle and trimming the excess. |
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Isn't that funny how that quote is on there? Kind of wish I'd seen this *before* we threw away the old bread we had lying around. It was from Zingerman's and therefore a sad loss.
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| Then you fold it a bunch of times. The tutorials I linked above show two different methods for this. |
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| Then you make some cuts. |
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As you can see if you look closely, I did not fold mine perfectly. Overall I think it still looks good. Please do not tell Martha I did not heed her warnings about creasing only when the folds were even.
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| The other side |
To remember where this idea came from I pinned it onto my
Handmade Christmas Goodness board on Pinterest, but paper snow flakes are a great winter craft for after Christmas. Have you made paper snow flakes since you were in third grade? Try it! You'll have fun.
