Paper art is a lot of fun. It looks so good when you have ended a neat minuscule scheme and people think you are so clever - minuscule do they know that it can be a very uncomplicated and cost sufficient matter to make 3-d paper craft and other off the page projects.

Often a completed scheme only needs a someone to take a basic shape and make lots of them from scrap paper. You may like to make a special paper art item to decorate your home or to serve as a ornament for a special event.

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For example, I made a topiary tree with circle shapes. Here's what I did:

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Step 1. First I decided on a color palette for my tree. I had a lot of blue and green scraps of card stock and designer paper in a briefcase as I can never make myself throw paper scraps away, and surprise surprise - those color hues also went nicely with my home decor. You could of procedure pick any other color composition that remarkable your decor or party theme. (I have always opinion what pretty wedding table decorations these trees could make if they were done in pink (or other wedding color) and silver with a bit of lace or netting used as the first layer of the leaf motif, for example. You could even use a dissimilar shape for the leaf motif such as a star or hearts).
Step 2: I took a Styrofoam ball and a narrow wooden dowel and made the basic frame for the tree. The ball would form the leafy part of the tree and the dowel would form the trunk. I wrapped the wooden doweling in some green paper to make it look more finished. Just lay the doweling down on a piece of paper the same distance and roll it up, then bind the edge down.
Step 3. I pushed the dowel into an commonplace flower pot filled with small rocks and covered the pot with paper and punched circle shapes. I made sure the dowel was right and more or less in the middle of my flower pot.
Step 4: Then I punched out many circles of paper to make the leaf motifs for the tree.
Step 5: To make my leaf motifs, I used two sizes of punched circles with the larger circle as the first layer, then the smaller circle settled on top, and I punched a smaller flower shape to go on top of that. I ran a pearl-headed right pin straight through the three stacked shapes and pushed it right into the Styrofoam ball. I did this over and over until I had covered the entire ball with my overlapping leaves. I wanted to make sure none of the Styrofoam was showing. If you wanted to paint the ball first this may not be such a concern for you.
Step 6: I did leave a small gap of Styrofoam uncovered so I could push the dowel into the ball once it was prettily covered in colored paper shapes and pearl-headed pins.

Now don't you think the paper tree could be ended off beautifully with some paper butterflies? I made two paper butterflies and wrapped them around the stem of my tree with florist's wire, but you could make some to sit on the ball of the tree as well if you liked.

Here's what I did, step by step:

Step 1: I used two heart punched paper shapes to make the wings for my butterflies
Step 2: I cut out a cigar shaped body (cut two cigar shapes and sandwich the florist's wire and the wings in the middle of them with some adhesive).
Step 3: I decorated both sides of the wings with smaller punched hearts and added some details such as eyes and wing veins with a silver gel pen.

You may like to make an accordion fold butterfly instead. You can find the instructions for making one at PaperCraftCentral.com and also see pictures of the topiary tree and heart punch butterflies there. Don't worry - the accordion fold butterfly is also simple! The basic shapes used to create it are a square and a circle.

I hope I have inspired you to make some paper art projects with these two uncomplicated but sufficient ideas. Happy paper art crafting!

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Driving, Cedar Point, Hotel Breakers, Lake Eerie beach, Merry-Go-Round Museum, and Topiary Park! The only video that I actually recorded AT Cedar Point is of us getting lost in the parking lot. I was afraid my camera would fly away on the roller coasters, and standing in line for an hour isn't very exciting. Sorry! June 2011.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012