Keely's rainbow avalanche, cut from magazine pagesI mentioned that I'd been cutting paper snowflakes on Twitter the other day, and it accidentally snowballed into something good.
(I should have posted a pun warning before starting this post, right?)
Keeley started finding and sharing links to tutorials for all sorts of paper snowflakes, and then she went ahead and wrote up a blog post of her own. She cut the beauties you see above from magazine pages, which takes frugal to free and throws in a golden ticket to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory just for the fun of it.
If you'd like to indulge in an afternoon of cutting your own avalanche, here are some great how-to's:
- how to cut a six-pointed snowflake
- ...and how to make it look 'lacy'
- how to cut the elusive five-pointed snowflake
- how to make a three-dimensional snowflake
- how to make a caribou or maple leaf snowflake (if you need more Canadiana in your Christmas)
- how to make Star Wars snowflakes, (if you need more Darth in your Christmas)
Of course, the great fun of making paper snowflakes is sometimes just the diving-in-and-seeing-what-happens, in which case no tutorials are necessary.
Thank you, Keeley, for sharing and making and being such a good sport.
Now: go get your scissors. Don't run.