Amazing Paper Grace

You didn’t have my latest interest, which is making paper flowers using punches. Punch Bunch and McGill have great punches for flowers. I have done pergamano for years and also did paper quilling and origami in the past .
Right now I am having so much fun making realistic punch flowers . I have a box full of them now I should get them onto cards LOL But for me the card is not the end product the flowers are.ReplyCancel

Hi there Becca, I just loves everything to do with paper, and I have the problem, that everytime I ean over a new technique, I just want to try that too. I started with Pergamano for many years, but then spread to other technicques of cardmaking too, and today I think, I do anything almost except from embroidery on paper and origami, cause I don´thave the patrience for that, but most other things, I have tryed, I think, but it´s always stamping and folding that I get back to every time. I would just love to do a lot more altered art and scrapbooking too, so that´s next on my wishlist here he he he he.ReplyCancel

Becca I see 4 people already want to learn Pergmano. If you contact me I can tell you where to get fantasitc DVD’s on how to do it . They come from the UKReplyCancel

This was an interesting poll, Becca. I realized I’ve done more with paper than I thought! I have done quilling, tea bag folding, papermaking, scrapbooking, parchment paper crafts, and altered art. But what I really hope to do more of is parchment paper crafts. There is such a lacy delicate look to parchment work that I just love.
Thank you for publishing your polls – they are a lot of fun!ReplyCancel

You didn’t have my latest interest listed which is coloring. I love the soft result of coloring with chalks and I like that it is so quick and easy. I broke down and bought some water color pencils recently, not so quick or easy. I’ve tried everything else you have listed except kirigami. Some I enjoyed, some I didn’t and still others I was no good at.
Blessings BernieReplyCancel

I thought you hadn’t mentioned mine, but now see that “pergamano” is listed. That’s actually a brand name for parchment craft supplies. There is so much more to parchment craft than embossing and piercing that it really should be it’s own category. Parchment craft is my real passion!ReplyCancel

Hard choices. I’ve done/tried many of your list. I love doing money gifts as origami. Just wish the bills were a little bigger! :) Have done a heart for a needy family with $100 bill, grandkid’s birthday money with various shapes. I HAVE to get back to scrapbooking! Have a granddaughter who hasn’t had ONE book made yet! Started, and 3 drawers of “stuff” for it. My hubby is a hunter and I need to update caribou and bear hunts for several years. Started out well, but have neglected project for too long. Have sooooooooooo many albums to do – both grandsons have a first album, but I have at least one more to do for each. I also have our home/garden album, have BOXES of old photos from our family home (I’m 6th generation, so you know that story!) My mother did a great job going through a lot of them, IDing people as best she could and putting approximate dates. All her high school and college friend’s photos are in perfect condition! Oh well, little by little.ReplyCancel

This was an easy poll to answer. Scrapbooking is a close sister to card making. I just wish I had more time to do it.ReplyCancel

What a fun poll this time! It was very hard to choose as there were at least 4-5 listed that I’d love to have time for. Curiously you did not mention learning to color stamped/digital images which would be my number one pick. Learning shading, etc. with Copics, Prismacolors, Distress Inks, colored pencils, chalking etc.ReplyCancel

35 years ago i was introduced to quilling and did a few things with it then saw a card a month or so ago with quilling on it ans said duh! papercrafting you can use it. so i may have to pull out my old supplies and see what happens. in 6th grade i leard how to make an oragami bird that flaps his wings. now when i’m out at restaurants with paper silverware wrappers i usually make one before dinner comes. i have made a few oragami things like a hanging ball, when we have had japanese exchange students. my current intrest is to do some iris paper folding. i would like something that tells me how to figure out the paper layout from the shape that i have. i’m sure it’s just some easy little trick. i just don’t know it. i have seen books online but can’t tell if it has what i want from the cover. i haven’t found any in the nearby craft stores. i have done some primitive scrapbook pages. i’m afraid if i do too much i will be over run with storing them. yes, i know i could make one for someone but if they didn’t take care and treasure it i would be sad. right now punches and spellbinders keep my mind on the creative edge.ReplyCancel

I have my hands full with card making, having started a mere 4 years ago. It’s taken over my life, and become an out-of-control passion. What I like so much about it is that not only is it creative, it gives me a lovely medium to tell friends and family how much they mean to me.

Scrapbooking seems like a similar craft, but a much larger project with each page. A little out of my league.

The little I’ve seen of Pergmano has me hooked. It’s breathtakingly beautiful, could be incorporated into a card and I have no idea how it’s done. I’d love to know about it.ReplyCancel

That is a hard one to answer as I do TBF, IF and origami in equal amounts. I finished up making my clamshell scrapbook set a couple of days ago and love the way it turned out.ReplyCancel

Hi Becca,

I love seeing your additons each day –and the polls are such fun. Right now I am into altered art and collage. I was lucky enough to take two classed with Tim Holtz and that sparked my interest in altered everything, Here in the Daytona area, we have a great teacher, Sharon Burdette, who is teaching classes in altered art. Her classed include books, canvases and all things altered, It is sooo much fun to experiment!!!ReplyCancel

Hi Becca, I guess a lot of card makers are scrapbookers too. I think there are lot of scrapbooking resources out there in the ether. I’d love to see origami used in card making. I haven’t seen very much of that at all. Thanks for the work you put into your blog. I look forward to it every day.ReplyCancel

I just love to color with my color pencils. I haven’t grown up yet!! My friends tease me about it all the time. It’s very relazing. I try alot of different things when I make cards.ReplyCancel

I love to paper fold, but my love is scrapbooking. I like that I can look back and see what the family did years ago…I did books for my parents when they were alive and my grand kids have used them to explain our family and WW II. My dad and mom were in Honolulu on 12/7/41 and mom was a journalist!ReplyCancel

This one was hard to pick just one. I love so many facets of paper crafting. I wish I could have had a first, second and third pick! I picked scrapbooking as my top pick, but very close runners-up would be paper engineering, paper cutting, and embossing.ReplyCancel

You missed mentioning handmade books and boxes. I make artistbooks, mini journals, mini scrapbooks, etc. and have a lot of fun exploring bindings, techniques, materials and gifting other with my creations. I also love to make boxes though I don’t do as many of these.ReplyCancel

I have so many interests, i just can’t stop learning and teaching! I do pergamano, and have also taught 3-D with stencil openings, then I’ve done card embroidery and quilling which I also love besides stamping …I’m eager to try making paper bag albums, mini albums, boxes and all things related to paper…and I’m anxious to do vintage tags which are on my to-do list also with chipboard accessories, feathers and such…I love all you do, Becca, and thank you sooo much for sharing all your knowledge with us as well as your videos…hugs…
Denise TrottierReplyCancel

I do many of what you have listed and since only one vote counts, I put what I am very interested in learning. “quilling” I have the basics to begin, just need to sit down and give it a try!

Love your blog and all that you show us. Thank you and God Bless.
Hugs and Prayers.ReplyCancel

Very beautiful! EdnaReplyCancel

Oh let me count the ways!!!! Years ago I did a lot of quilling. As it just so happens I have recently purchased quilling supplies so I can being an old hobby anew. I am also very interested in creating boxes, 3-D items, scenes,etc. What is Iris folding and Zentangle? Just curious. Love your site. So very interesting and informative. Thank you sweet Becca for sharing your artistry and knowledge.ReplyCancel

I can not “see” your polls because your floral printed wallpaper covers them up for me. I can only see a few beginning words in your list but I am unable to read the whole thing. Is there any way you can remove that wallpaper from the right hand side?ReplyCancel

I have always been fascinated by paper engeneering and have alot of popup books. I find it absolutely amaizing that meer paper can be used in so many awsome ways.ReplyCancel

I’m a punchaholic. I love using punches and my collection grows almost daily. I love using them the way they were designed to be used and then seeing the ways they can be combined to make something completely different.ReplyCancel

Becka I have to say I love everything you do, you are so talented and your tutorials are so helpful. Everthing you do you make look so easy but believe me for me it’s not, you are just so gifted, and I think God you are so willing to share wiyh someone like me who is all thumbs. I pray God Blesses you everyday because you are such a blessing to us. Sisters in Christ LindaReplyCancel