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How To: Make a playing card gift box

What's a better way to give a gift to a magician than to present it in a gift box made of playing cards? This video tutorial will show you how to make this playing card gift box, fold after fold. So, get out that deck of cards, count out 21 of them, and start bending and folding for the perfect card gift box.

How To: Make a Patriotic Pinwheel

Keep the kids learning and entertained with this fun pinwheel project. Summer is a great time for family activities, and these Fourth of July pinwheels are a math lesson, craft project and decoration-making session all-in-one.

How To: Make 3D steps out of paper

Is your life's goal to become a world-renowned architect and build a funky postmodern skyscraper in Dubai? Then start small: Other than learning how to sketch blueprints, you must be able to model your creations from paper.

How To: Make a tri-fold shutter card

This tri-fold card idea can be used to make an assortment of great cards for any occasion. This card design may look a bit difficult but in reality it isn't at all. Once you get your card in the accordion fold you are ready to decorate. This video will demonstrate how to fold your card stock into this awesome fold design and make a tri-fold shutter card for any occasion. This scrapbooking design will awe whomever you share it with, just make sure to decorate it to the tee.

News: Fully Functional DIY Pump Action Shotgun Made Out of Paper

This is no paper gun like you've ever seen before. Seriously. Tacome1942's homemade paper shotgun is a life-sized, fully functional Remington 870 replica. It would be hard to tell it apart from the real deal, not to mention it practically sounds like an authentic shotgun, too. The shotgun is made of approximately 97% paper, the remaining 3% consisting of pins, wires, and springs. Check out all the videos below to see the finer details, including the trigger group, shell stop, and disassembly ...

How To: Make a music box using a musical greeting card

Interesting in making your own music box? This video will walk you through the steps to creating your own makeshift music box, and the main ingredient… a musical greeting card. This is a really easy idea that's perfect for a gift box during the holidays. So simple, so easy. A great project for the kids!

How To: Make a Seafarer Rope Cut Collective Card

This card looks fabulous and it is so easy to put together, the longest part is cutting the paper, but if you enjoy papercutting then this is just for you, however you could adapt the design and use the full Rope design paper from Anna Griffin to create this beauty. I have used embellishments and paper cut shapes to add to the card front and create something really cool. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make a Rose & Trimmings Edge Card

This card project is a little bit different and will show you how to make a trimmings side edge card, using some fabulous products from Anna Griffin, including the Trimmings 12" dies and the Rose designer collection. The card is easy to make and looks so pretty, but it is a 'easy when you see how' card. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Fold an Origami Magic Rose Cube

Origami, by its nature, injects a bit of magic into its incredibly tangled, convoluted folds and motifs that turn a flat sheet of paper into a living, breathing creature/work of art.

How To: Make an MP40 Gun Out of Paper

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to fold and assemble an MP40 gun out of paper. Using just paper, scissors and tape, you can make a toy replica gun with working parts. (Of course, it will lack the firepower of a real MP40!)

How To: Make a Paper Plane That Flies Back Like a Boomerang

Have you ever seen a paper plane that comes back to its owner? In this video, you'll see how to make a paper plane that flies like a boomerang and keeps coming back.

News: Amazing Animated Optical Illusions

This is one more cool illusion by maricv84, one where you slide a transparent sheet with black bars overtop a cryptic image to create an animated effect.

News: Make Optimus Prime Papercraft

Papercraft + Transformers = Fanboy nirvana. Papercrafting is enjoying a renaissance thanks to its nerd-love. Popularity of card modeling boomed during World War II when paper was one of the few items whose use and production was not heavily regulated. Micromodels, designed and published in England, were a popular source of military-themed modeling designs.

How To: Make a Weaved Trimmings Die Card

This card is so pretty, a little bit different but very easy when you see how I have used the Trimmings Die both for the front of the card and the insert. The Anna Griffin Trimmings dies are so versatile and at 12inches in length will suit both cardmaking and scrapbooking, I have shown here how you can use them in cardmaking to create this little number! Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

PhD in Paper Craft: Make This Insanely Detailed & Anatomically Correct Human Torso—Complete with Removable Organs

If you're studying human anatomy (or have ever visited a doctor's office), you're no doubt familiar with those plastic anatomical models with removable pieces meant to teach the different parts of the body. Before those, there were illustrated pop-up books. If you need to know the difference between the latissimus dorsi and the multifidus, you're probably better off sticking with your textbook diagrams. But if you prefer a more artful approach (and have a lot of time one your hands), this pap...

How To: Make Pink Vintage Ornate Frame Topper Card

This is such a pretty card and so quick to make, it is really ornate with the layers of the frame making the corners look even more complex. It is a really easy card to make and the pink n' black combination just make it all even better.. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make a Rose Designer Collection Floral Card

This project sees me create a stunning card using the Anna Griffin Rose Designer Collection and the 12" Trimmings dies, together they are the perfect combination. The card is a full floral and includes using the stickers from the kit as well as some of the beautiful embellishments. I have even included some paper folding to give the card even more depth. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Die Cut Your Flip Cards Using the Big Shot

This little demonstration was a request to show how I die cut the Anna Griffin Flip card base die that was included in the Flip Card Kit. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Go 'Flipping Fabulous' Flip Card Crazy

Lets go flipping crazy for the new cardmaking kit from Anna Griffin, and this kit is amazing, full of gorgeous cardmaking products to make the fabulous flips card and the dies to keep making them long after the contents have gone.

How To: Use Mixed Media Iron for Foil & Applique

This is a little bit different and looks at the new hot iron from Stix2 that can be used for so many things in your crafty life.. and make short work of those pesky hems!

News: How to Make a Seafarer Scrapbooking Page

This scrapbooking page was so easy to create using great products and the fabulous new collection from Anna griffin of the Seafarer Designer Paper/Card Collection.

How To: Make Ornate Frame 3D Layer Card

This is a great card, and built by creating the layers using one of the Ornate frames die, it looks amazing when it is finished and not to high that it won't fit in the envelope, as long as your 3D foam isn't the really thick foam. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make a Pastel Pretty Trimmings Pleated Card

This card is stunning, and so easy to create with a few little tricks to make the card interesting, including paperfolding and embossing. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make a Happy Fathers Day Card

This card is so quick and easy to make for Dad.. Sometimes the men in our life can be tough to create for and this is something that takes the headache out of it. Using the For Him embossing folders to make a great creation that will hopefully inspire you. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make a Spectacular Layered Silver Flourish Fan Card

This card is a work of art however it is so easy when you have seen how it is put together. following this easy project you will be able to create a masterpiece of your own. Using lots of the Anna Griffin Silver flourish stickers, I create this card in front of you, showing the steps I have taken including making a fabulous insert to match. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make Half Paper Fans for Crafting

This fabulous technique creates half fans for your cards, scrapbooking and projects using the Anna Griffin Paper Tricks 2 Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make Double Ornate Fretwork Card

This card is so easy and quick using both the inside and the outside of a die cut. The card is so pretty and uses minimal items to make it. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make Paper Shaped Rosettes

This technique shows how to make the paper shaped rosettes that are so easy and quick to make, they add depth to your projects and alot of interest. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make a Vintage Gold Butterfly Topper Quickie Card

This project is such a beauty and so easy to create, it looks fabulous when it is finished plus you will be amazed at how quick it is. Using just a few items out of the world class range from Anna Griffin this card will take your creativity to new level. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make a Large Vintage Ornate Fretwork Card

This card is stunning and so easy to make, it has a touch of papercrafting and in a very easy layer style to make a unique masterpiece. It could be adapted with other papers from your collection and still look gorgeous. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make Rubber Stamped Paper Flowers Style1

This technique shows you how I have made these gorgeous little paper flowers that match project Nos161

How To: Make Chalkboard Embossed Celtic Link Card

This card is stunning and has lots of texture and a mix of items to make it unusual but still easy to create.

How To: Make a Elegant Gold & Jet Black Stack Card

In this cardmaking project I make a gorgeous and very elegant card using the DCWV Jet Black stack. I create a large card with embellishments all made fro m the stack with a touch of gold card to give it a touch of luxury.

How To: Make a Vintage Anniversary Topper Card

This card is so pretty, it has a little bit of everything on it! Paperfolding, toppers and gorgeous metallic layers help to build this stunning card, using a new Vintage Toppers 2 set, this makes one very easy when you know how card. Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make 'for Him' Mens Collar Tie Card

This card is easy and quick to make, and looks amazing. Men are without doubt sometimes difficult to create for but the bundle make it easy to create something that has the wow factor for 'Him' Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial

How To: Make a Tone on Tone Ivory Ornate Card

This is one very elegant card and looks amazing when it has been created using Anna Griffin's brand new Fretwork 2 die set, a set of 5 fabulously ornate dies for your masterpieces. Using tone on tone paper/card, I show you how I create this beauty Step 1: Now Watch the Tutorial