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Cardboard Souls (and Insoles)
You can use cereal boxes if you don’t have this kind of cardboard on hand. I’m not quite sure how this Mother’s Day or Father’s Day project will find it’s audience; (unless I’ve gained a tween...
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Banana Box Pull-out Drawers
Do you have a drawer that always stays organized, and another that does not? I do….. and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the drawer (or ahem drawers) that do not stay organized...
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A Cardboard Glue Comb & Sneak Peak
I’m in the final stages of pattern testing my first cardboard furniture pattern! While my husband sweetly refers to this step as the first pancake, I feel like I have flipped so many many pancakes...
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Totem Box Patterns are HERE!
All I can say, is it’s a great feeling to start with an idea, work with it for more than 6 months, and get to this place. I’m so excited to share this pattern with you! It started basically as a way...
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Cardboard Messages: Teapot
We’re planning a little adventure for Father’s Day….something involving a bike ride and a picnic I think? I saw this idea in a book called, “Japanese-style Interior of Living” that I checked out from...
View ArticleLoose Parts Play & Cardboard Totem Boxes
When I released the Totem Box pattern a few weeks ago, I alluded to the fact that this was a design that I used to manage the “little” toys in our house, but the thought behind the design goes a...
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Cardboard Playground circa 1967
LIFE Magazine – November 3, 1967 (Volume 63, Number 18) Modern Living — The Big Play in Paper, from Giraffes to Gazebos Wow, check out this 1967 LIFE magazine article entitled, “The Big Play in...
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How to Pin an Insect
At the risk of loosing part of my readership, I have a few confessions to make…..the first is that this is not my first blog. My first blog, swallowed somewhere in the darkness of internet cloud...
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Paper Bag Hat
I’m literally AND figuratively wearing a new hat these days. Two actually. The first one is a partnership with the Japanese company eco+waza, which puts out a magazine and sells eco-friendly products...
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Starry Cardboard Birthday Crown
An easy beautiful birthday crown that my daughter put together on her big day. She wants to wear it again next year, and I agree it turned out beautifully. There is definitely a Glinda, Good Witch...
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DIY Cardboard Camera
There are so many adorable ideas for cardboard cameras on the internet, but this one comes from the first post I ever published on The Cardboard Collective about cardboard beads. When I got my new...
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Cardboard for Stools & Tabletops
It was a pleasant discovery to find out that old album covers can be opened up to create a large, 4 paneled piece of cardboard for the Totem Box table and stool tops. You may or may not have noticed...
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One of my heroes, Shigeru Ban and his beautiful and funny talk about cardboard architecture for the people and for the future.
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DIY cardboard fasteners
The girls have been building a fishing shanty, so we implemented this method for joining cardboard. I demo-ed it at a cardboard play day last fall. Here’s the lowdown: PROS: rEAlly cute, fairly...
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10 Tips for Cardboard Play Day
The Global Cardboard Challenge is here again! Will you be joining THE WORLD on October 5th, 2014 to either play or host an event? For everything Caine’s Arcade and The Global Day of Play, please be...
View ArticleCardboard Costume Challengers
Cardboard Costume Challenge, a group on Flickr. Check out these amazing costumes!
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A few spectacular cardboard costumes sent in, and don’t forget to check out the Flickr pool if you haven’t already!
View ArticleCardboard Lightning Bug
Pete Lightning Bug, 2013 (commonly mistaken for cockroach) Found cardboard and paper, steel nuts & bolts, watercolor, white glue part of the series: “Insect Family” Stay tuned for more winged...
View ArticleBlue Butterfly Wings
Amber Little Blue Butterfly, 2013 Found cardboard and paper, melon and apple cartons, paper cord, watercolor, pastel chalk, white glue part of the series: “Insect Family” (Inspired by this butterfly...
View ArticleLuna Moth Costume
Amber Luna Moth, 2013 Found cardboard and paper, egg and apple cartons, paper cord, watercolor, pastel chalk, white glue Last in the series: “Insect Family”
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