Author: christobel

Thank you to Tess at Paper Fusion for stocking my paper angels and Christmas baubles with paper boats inside, and thank you to the editor of the West Australian...

It is time to get serious about Christmas wrapping!  A fun way to organise it is to pick a colour theme and then get all your paper, tags and other bits and pie...

If ever you have time to spare (lots of time) you can make tiny things out of paper and put them inside clear glass baubles.  This is a task that requires a lot...

Any good craft supplier will stock the carboard tubes and the snaps that you need to make your own Christmas crackers.  I used old book pages with music on them...

Already the Christmas decorations have started to appear in the City so I have started my preparations in earnest too! This year I am making Christmas angels fr...

I have been making miniature paper lanterns out of atlas paper and attaching wire loops so that they could be hung up as decorations. It’s never too early...

I finished this at the weekend – with very sticky fingers and lots of orphaned book pages all over my desk!

As an adjunct to my vintage paper projects I have been making tiny felted birds’ nests by using recycled jumper sleeves and scraps of wool.  To keep the c...

I have been making some new gift tags, some which continue on the old atlas theme, and others which are black and white.

The pages of old atlases are really good for folding and making shapes as the randomly varied colours mean that no two objects will be the same. You can use the...