PAPER POETRY: Creative Paper Cutting

Paper offers a quick and inexpensive way to redecorate your home with bunting, banners and garlands, paper cut-out birds, gifts and gift packaging using newspapers, maps and magazines, a bouquet of paper daffodils, butterflies, balloons cut into the centre of an old book, wordsearches for children, papers that hold memories or meanings to decorate bathrooms and cloakrooms. Get scissor happy in just ten minutes with a whole series of starter exercises of silhouettes of swallows or hands to trace. In 30 minutes make freehand flowers using a bit of masking tape to attach outer petals of different colours and the creation of beautiful lilies of white crepe paper individually rolled into blossoming bells create a long-lasting bouquet of pure happiness. There are foldout birds, poetry trees, a butterfly curtain, Christmas hearts and silhouettes to make shadows appear on the wall behind them. A magical book sharing secrets and offering shortcuts to creativity and mindfulness all at once. No scalpel, cutting mat or complicated templates, pick up your scissors and start making your own paper poetry from birthday cakes to Halloween to folding angels with pleated skirts, again from an old book. 144pp in large softback, colour illus.