Father’s Day cards one finds in the stores are pretty abysmal, in my opinion. With Papercrafts & Coloring coming up (second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m.), I decided I’d look for something I wanted to give my dad for Father’s Day. I turned to Pinterest and found a pretty sweet image of a…
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Have you noticed our logo resembles a butterfly? We’re decorating the Library with paper butterflies to celebrate! If you’d like to participate, here are three patterns: An easy butterfly for those who are good with a scissors. An origami butterfly, a relatively easy pattern, by origami standards: http://bit.ly/1rp4hsK The last pattern we’re supplying uses two…
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For our March Papercrafts class, this “Easter Best Friend Card” was one of the options for creating a greeting card from a discarded book. We used this template: Download the PDF of EasterBestFriendsTemplate. Find a suitable page from a discarded book. We found that pages with print on one side and a nice photo on the…
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At our next Bookish Papercraft night at Newton Public Library, January 13 at 7 p.m., we’ll be making an easy but striking Valentine’s card with papers from books that are in poor condition or scrap papers we’ve found languishing in forgotten corners. Our Papercrafts nights are always free, no registration necessary. I call this a…
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