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Crafting (making goods by hand) is a huge industry nowadays and weather you are a professional artist, making a living through Craft or just using it as a pastime, the materials and creative ideas out there are prodigious. Because of the vast scope for crafting I am taking inspiration from our paper stocks to look briefly into paper crafts, showing how you can use paper as an artistic medium, to release your creative side. Even just looking at paper crafts as one spoke in the wheel of crafts, there are a myriad of applications, so I am going to focus on Origami, Journal Making, Personalised Cards, scrapbooking and Paper flowers to advise on suitable paper stocks to achieve the results you want.
Card making is something you can really be creative with and if making for friends and family it shows real thought has gone into the occasion the card is for. Embellishments can be added like pearls, crystals, fabric, buttons, ribbons, hand made paper flowers, the list is endless. Your cards can be handwritten or printed and it’s a hobby your can share with your children, actively involve them, they will have fun and it shows a card that comes from the heart. You can fold your own cards by hand or if you want to avoid the cracks that can sometimes occur when hand folding cards you could order some of our Pre-creased Cards, we have a vast array of colours, textures and weights. The main purpose of scrapbooking is to create a collection of memories using photographs and memorabilia to preserve history so that you have something to look back on in the years to come, but it is also another fantastic creative outlet that gives you chance to really display your personality and your skills. The scrapbook is yours so there is nothing holding you back. Paper plays a huge part in scrapbooking as it is the raw material to get you started. You can create your scrapbook from scratch producing a hand sewn journal for all your memories and then embellish your pages with paper photo frames, flowers, images and keepsakes. View our Rapid Color range or maybe take a look at our Translucent stocks for overlays or Parchment Craft.
I have only introduced to you a few examples of paper crafts but as you can see paper is a wonderful medium that lends itself to countless creative outlets. All of the above paper crafts in some way can be used in conjunction with each other so why not visit First for Paper today and see how we can help you Get Crafty with Paper. |
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