The Green Bin

Paper flowers made from old magazines or any old paper just laying around.

Use them on gifts, as decorations around the house or in your display windows.   

Paper flower

Keepsakes

Note holder made from corrugated card to keep all your notes or letters.

All about you!

Its all about you. 

Get a customized notepad. 

This Customized 52 page Notepad made for a colleague   

Outside cover

Inside with the words"A Note from...."

Challenge 101

This week were challenge 101. I had to create a special order for a client.

The challenge: create a brightly colored 3D paper OM (Aum), and O boy were this a challenge.

And I did it!!! 

I took this picture:

And created this:

3D Paper OM

I made this 3D paper OM from cardboard and then covered it with colored paper.

It come out quite nice, don't you think? 

"If you can dream it, You can do it"

ArDo Paper Creations all started in November 2009, with one event. Our wedding.

My now husband and I decided to get married. As with all weddings the planing, followed by all the stress, started. We had to get all the invitations out in a very short time.

So we started to look at wedding coordinators for the making of the invitation cards, place settings and all other wedding stationary. And believe me when I say this was not easy. The last coordinators we saw said to us that this can't be done. All we wanted were invitations cards with a Floc Damask print. Well I just had it, for I know you do get this paper, and I believe "If you can Dream it, You can do it".

So I decided I will do it myself. and of I went to get paper. "I can dream it, so I definitely can do it"

We ended up doing all the wedding stationary ourselves, and saved al lot of money in the process.

And to top it all I had so much fun doing this.

The following photos shows all the stationary that we made:  

Invitation 

The Invitations with a Floc Damask print. I had to make about 70 invitations by hand and had about two weeks to do so.

Invitation (Inside)

Information Cards

Thank You Card 1

Thank You Card 2

The Thank You cards for all the gifts. They were a smaller copy of the Invitations cards. I made two different cards. All had a photo in of the person(s) of something that happened during the day.

Program 

The Program for the day. Made four. One for the Priest, for the lady of honor, for mistress of seromonies, and for the Groom. All the protocol and happenings for the day with times when to do what were printed in the inside and a place for them to make notes. 

Table Seating

The Table seating. Here we printed on canvas and used the same Floc Damask Printed paper as borders. The table seating hanged outside at the reception area were the guests had there cocktails before entering the Banquet wall. They hang on a Black silk ribbon with hanging vases filled with Black Arum Lilies at the bottom.   

Name tag sleeve with Menu

The Name tags for the tables were made out of Transparency paper. The names and the menu were print on it decorated with a Diamonte. The Napkin fitted inside. Made 120   

Gift Tags

The Thank you gift Tags. Had to make 120.

Thank You Gift

The Thank you gifts were a clear box wrap in the inside with Damask printed tissue paper. The black satin ribbon had our names printed on. the box were filled with a scented candle. For the children we made it brightly coulored boxes filled with Bauble bath. Made 120

Bar List

The Bar list of all drinks available since it were a open bar. Made 12.

A 3D Christmas

All new 3D Christmas Decorations...............

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Sculptural Star

Hanging Brid

Retro Christmas

Bauble

Giant Snow Flake 

Giant Bauble

Tea with Barbie

Invites for the Barbie tea we had for close friends to view our Barbie Doll collection.

Spider-man

I made this Spider-man pop up birthday card for my 4 year old nephew. 

This only took me 30 minutes to make and it is my first pop up card that I made.

I must say I'm quite pleased with the outcome.

For the outside I copied a Comic cover on card stock 

and inside a copy of Spider-man in action. I made two copies of this pic, the 2nd one I've cut out the Spider-man to use for the pop up.

Snow Flakes

And who said that snow flakes must be white........ 

Not me.

  

3D Paper Star

The 3D Paper Stars I made for the South African Doll and Toy Club for their Christmas / year end function. It took 40 A4 pages, cut into 240 square blocks, then cut into 2400 strips. 10 strips glued and shaped together to form one piece. 6 pieces glued and shaped together to form one star. In total 40 stars.

This is easy to make, but the most time consuming part in cutting the paper, it took me about 6 hours just to cut the paper and strips.

3D Paper Star

The final product

All ready to go. Thank you South African Doll and Toy Club, I enjoyed making this for you.

Packaging

Today I'm busy to invoice and packing some of the Christmas orders, and still have a huge order that I have to complete for mid November.

Angel Tree Topper

Angel Tree Topper

This was so much fun to do. Made already four of them.

Scrap-booking / Card-making

Here are some of the paper quilling available for scrap-booking / card making.

All are made out of 3mm (Best for scrap-booking) or 6mm quilling paper strips.
Use them for you scrap-book, make cards with them or just collect them.

Black Cat

Ladybird

Baby feet

Boat

Read Harts

Dragon Fly

Insect

Christmas

Car

Crown

Sitting Dog

Holly

Stick Insect

Tiny Insect

Mouse

Spider

Quaking Duck

Polka dot Bikini

Scissors