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On Instagram, search by using hashtag #PaperLeaves to discover all the different varieties of leaves made from paper. Monstera, oxalis, rex begonia, rubber plant, variegated plant leaves; leaves created from painting, cutting, folding, creasing. For real, beleaf - plants definitely make people happy.
Paperholm, a growing paper city project made by Edinburgh based artist Charles Young. This paper project started as a daily project in 2014 with new additions every day, with near 1,000 paper structures created.
Paper has been used to create stunning architectures covering all sorts of themes from Olympic building, ferris wheel, cabin etc. that are brought to life with additional building details from pop up details, to moving cars to add movement to this lovely paper city and to create animation of moving buildings.
Magical, genius, fascinating and super cute.
It's summer and plenty of berries are in season including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries etc. This has us thinking about summer puddings, something refreshing and fruity!
Summer desserts including gelato, ice lollies, strawberry cake, summer puddings are ideal for the hot weather. We are inspired by this super super cute paper food desserts made by Amsterdam and Paris based graphic designer Charlotte Smith. Cuteness overload and sugar cravings alert here!
Photos courtesy of Charlotte Smith www.charlottesmith.fr
Ultra, รผber fine wildlife nature inspired papercut, by San Francisco based papercut artist Kanako Abe. The intricate and delicate paper cut technique is based on Ise-katagami (ไผๅขๅ็ด) - a traditional Japanese paper craft technique composed of fine repeated patterns and shapes bringing these squirrels, bears, butterflies, forest plants and wildlife to life!
Definitely no cabin fever, but an inspiration to head out to the woods!
Photos courtesy of Kanako Abe's Instagram account @abemanatee
The Beast from the East has created plenty of snow around the UK. Paper snowflakes are in mind, especially these sciency snowflakes featuring three Nobel physicists, courtesy of Symmetry Magazine, an online magazine about particle physics.
Templates to cut these awesome sciency snowflakes are available here.
Biscuits are always on our minds, especially during elevenses, when biscuits are dunked in a hot drink. Mark O'Brien a cardboard craftsman based in Manchester crafts amazing objects out of cardboard as props for theatres, shop displays etc. The objects he has created included shoes, robots, post boxes. Our favourite, however, are definitely these signature British biscuits including Custard Cream, Pink Wafer, Digestive, Party Ring, Bourbon cream - not dunkable but definitely adorable.
A magical display of paper mushrooms precisely crafted for a forest themed shop window display. This beautifully composed mushroom view is by Zim & Zou for a Hermรจs store in Dubai.
Paper sculptures made by Anna Bay meticulously created from paper to illustrate sixteen different childbirth stories. Oh baby, so adorbs!
