Free paper feathers for Easter

Do you have Easter traditions? Or do you change every year? One thing that I think is really cute, but don’t do anymore since my partner is allergic, is bringing in twigs of birch to decorate. But this year I have a bouquet of birch twigs at the studio. I wanted to make some new decorations and decided to do paper feathers. I used abstract art that we painted a few weeks ago and digitalized the paintings. We had spring in mind while painting so they are perfect for this Easter project.

I really liked how they turned out so I made a template for you to download. It contains 8 different designs for you to use.

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Make your own abstract art feathers

1. Print out the feather template. I printed on photo paper to get that extra color pop.

2. Since you can see the back of the feathers I glued another paper to the back. I used this cute crafting paper from Littlephant that I got in my goodie bag from Craftcation and some that I painted before.

3. Cut out the feathers.

4. If you want to put the feathers on top of the twigs, glue on a wire with a glue gun. When the glue is all dried, turn the wire around the twig to fasten the feather.

5. Do you want to hang the feathers instead? Make a small hole in the stem and use a string to hang the feathers

Happy Crafting! And Happy Easter

Interested in more printable projects? Check out our other paper craft projects:

• Thoughtful hearts to give a loved one

• Cute candy huggers

Collage portraits experiment

I and Ann-Charlotte got the idea to do a series of arty portraits. And what subjects would be best for that? Ourselves obviously! The brief was kind of simple; use photographs of ourselves, our favorite mixed media techniques, such as collage, and explore and have fun. 

We brainstormed ideas about wanting the portraits to have a handmade feeling, with elements of spring. As a part of this collaboration experiment, we wanted to find a process where we could collaborate by making a layer each and passing the piece back and forth to each other. 

The start of the collage portrait project

To start off the collage portrait project, we went on an inspo hunt and put together a Pinterest board.

To spice up the images a bit we wanted to add pieces of ephemera and graphics. I truly love places like Freepik, it’s a huge resource for image makers.  You can download stuff for free simply by crediting the artist. We used a few elements, and to “make it our own”, and give it that handmade feel, we printed out the elements, colored them in and glued them onto the portraits.

Have you tried an Instagram puzzle?

As a part of this experiment/ challenge/ exercise.. or whatever you want to call it since it was all of that, we also wanted to put the images together as an Instagram puzzle. Oh jeez… now that totally leveled up the hard work to a new dimension. The whole composition needs to look good with a central focal point, rule of thirds, color scheme yada yada.. and each picture needs to be a stand-alone element. Let’s just say my inner critic had a meltdown and I had to surrender. Enough pixel pushing, let’s just publish and get it over and done with.

As mentioned previously, this was part of an experiment with so many layers.

It was our first attempt at collaborating on a distance.

It would be great to see what happened if we could continue working on the pieces once they were enhanced print them out and continue adding real or handmade elements, to make them digital again and continue that until we had the perfect image.

However, I enjoyed this exercise and it gave me an appetite to continue experimenting. How about you, have you done any self-portraits lately?

Love Stina

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Such a lovely Craftcation

Imagine a huge studio with lots of space for creating and a manor house in lovely surroundings. Now imagine 14 great people going away for the weekend with veeeery heavy bags full of craft material. This was a dream come true for us, Pysselbolaget, Created by Malin  and Pysselliv. 

We knew it would be lovely to go on a getaway with like-minded people. But I think this weekend ended up even better than we could’ve imagined. The manor house at Wij trädgårdar was lovely, the studio perfect and the company fantastic.

The buzz of creative energy that you get when fourteen people get together is almost overwhelming. We stayed in the studio from morning to late at night. This is Lina with her workspace on the floor. Stina and I worked on a collage project together which was great fun. You’ll see more of that on Instagram further on.

We had two workshops on Saturday, Malin showed us the basic knots of macramé and Karin showed an easy origami technique that you can make beautiful wall art of.

There was a lot of other things going on, too. Photos, art journal, leatherwork, embroidery, origami, painting, printing, wool, cardmaking and probably things I didn't catch since I was busy working on my own projects. The level of creativity was high all through the weekend.

This is Karin, a new friend of ours, working hard on her embroidery.

In the studio we had a table with gifted craft materials to try. Thanks Creative Company, Littlephant and Pilot.

We had fun goodie bags to give away. It had a lot of great stuff, like books and magazines, pens, discounts, paper, tape and more. Thanks for the great material and inspiration, cchobby.se, Slöjddetaljer, Semic, Pilot Nordic, Littlephant, Hemslöjden, Beckers färg, Happy homes, Bra sagt Mrs K, Natur och kultur och Illustrerad fakta.

Thanks to all who joined. We couldn't have done it without you. Thanks to our co-hosts Karin, Pysselbolaget, Malin, Created by Malin och Anna, Pysselliv.

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