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QR Cat
Want a cat holding up a sign with your very own QR code, pointing to your website (or any URL of your choice)? Here is your chance. Oops, you don’t know what a QR code is or what it might be useful for? Well, it’s effectively a 2D
Papercraft
Papercraft
Just in time for Easter: Egg hats
Here is a silly little idea I had for Easter: Egg hats. They actually turned out quite nicely, and are a nice touch to colored or plain eggs. And they are made completely from paper. We have: … the top hat for the distinguished egg head: …the fedora, for eggs of
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The groceries game
Here is something for kids learning basic math: The groceries game is about going to the supermarket and shopping for everyday groceries. So how does it work? First of all, this is not a competitive game. There is no winner or loser. You just buy and sell items to your
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Pseudo origami animals
This was a commissioned work I did for a company, as promotional items for a trade show. The idea was to provide easy, precut templates that would fold into origami-like animals effortlessly and without glue. We wanted to give people something they could play with, even if they had never
Educational
Learn to tie your shoelaces
Even in this day and age of velcro, kids should learn how to tie their shoelaces. You can use a real shoe for that, but depending to what extent that shoe was in use before, this can get a bit messy. I have created a little learning tool for my
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And another elephriend custom: Devil
Ok, here is the third (and possibly final) installement of my three-piece series of elephriend customs: The devil elephriend. He is the evil (and grumpy) counterpart to the angel elephriend. * Here is the template. PS: The third one is the steampunk elephriend.
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Elephriend angel
Here is another custom elephriend, based on the template published by the Urban Paper Collective: The angel. Here is the template PS: Here is the counterpart, the devil elephriend. And here is the first one, a steampunk elephriend.
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Elephriend custom design
The Urban Paper Collective has released a ‘platform toy’, the ‘Elephriend’. What they mean by platform toy is that this is a blank papercraft template that you can use as a starting point for your own designs. Well, I did, and the result is this steampunk elephriend: Here is the
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Birthday party theme: Under the sea
My daughter’s birthday is coming up, and she asked to have a theme: Under the sea. Today, we started on the invitation cards: Not too shabby, don’t you think? At least my daughter liked it. I will post more on the theme once the party is over.
Cubicity
Cubicity model #024: Female scientist
Just made the latest addition to the Cubicity set: A female scientist. This was a custom request by a reader, Trudy, who rightfully felt that women were a bit underrepresented in Cubicity. So, here she is: She has a beaker in her other hand, which makes her both a chemist
Papercraft
Numbers
Here is a set of educational paper toys: Remember the papercraft alphabet? Ever since I published it, there have been requests to complement it with a set of numbers. I finally got around to designing the numbers. These are not plain and simple numbers, either, but they come with a
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A new mascot
I wanted to have a simple, easy to build mascot that I could use in header graphics for Twitter and Google+. It’s a shelf sitting cube guy: This one is really easy to make. Here is the template: Digitprop mascot And here is a blank template, if you want