The Paper Arts site talks about everything related to paper including stationery, scrapbooking, and DIY paper projects.

I know we’ve covered Jill Bliss’s cards previously, but I saw this on Fred Flare and just had to post about it.

Continuing her popular undersea themes, her newest item is a collection of “necklace notecards” that can either be used as sample cards or actually cut out …

I was looking on Amazon the other day at some unrelated non-paper things having to do with Tim Burton and came across this unusual set of note cards and envelopes. Burton is best known for his semi-creepy but cutely animated horror cartoons such as “The Nightmare …

I must admit when I first saw this packet of Twirled Paper I was a bit confused. I mean they look exactly like multi-colored shoelaces or something! How could you make anything useful out of this paper?

Well, it turns out there are some pretty cool things you can make with these curls of paper, least of not are the twirled paper animals featured in the book. The book is written by Jacqueline Lee and published by Klutz, who make a ton of these interesting paper project packs for kids and adults alike.

One thing I didn’t know is that the art of using these small curled strips of paper to make decorations and other things is not really new or anything. According to the book, it was first done by the French hundreds of years ago and they called it paper filigree. In more recent times, it’s been called quilling because they wrapped the strips around quills to get them to spiral. And in this book it’s called “Twirling“. (I have no idea if this is the official way that people call it nowadays.)