DIY Craft Tutorials

If you're an elementary school teacher or homeschooling parent, you know how challenging it can be to come up with different arts and crafts activities to keep your kids interested and engaged with learning. Using simple materials like paper, scissors,...

  Excel Blades is excited to share a new video made by artist and influencer Maria Marinoni for Paper Crafting Month.  Maria shows you a very simple floral project and papercutting technique with a few tools.  You do have the...

PAPERCUT  LAMPSHADE There  is  nothing  better  than  recreating  a  cozy  “home-sweet-home  mood”  in  the  coldest  and  darkest  season.  This  papercut  lampshade  is  the  perfect  deco  DIY  idea  to  make  a  warm  and  relaxing  atmosphere  in  your  living  room  or  bedroom, ...

PAPERCUT  FEATHER     This  is  another  great  project  that  relies  on  repetition  of  a  similar  cutting   stroke.    The  organic  form  of  the  feather  is  pleasantly  conducive  to  the  cutting  process  (and  it  make  hiding  mistakes  really  easy!)     ...

DIY  FIVE-POINT  STAR   As  in  my  previous  post  on  the  nautical  knots,  repetition  will  play  a  major  role  in  the  success  of  this  five-point  star  paper  cut.    I  will  use  a  basic  diamond  shaped,  two  stroke  cut  for  the ...

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DIY  NAUTICAL  KNOT  PAPERCUTS   Repetition is a major component of my work and papercutting style; it creates eye  movement, helps to unify different subject matters, and provide a level of visual and technical consistency. These nautical knot papercuts are...