It's impossible not to love these amazing Knights Templar toys from Herzensart (via Craftzine)
Jaques de Molay and his horse Josephine, Bertrand de Blanquefort with horse Bernadette, Gaulliaume de Chartres with Geraldine and Pierre de Montaigue with horse Paulette have started her ride to Amsterdam today. The magic horses, will bring their knights safe and sound and hopefully right in time to their final destination.
They are simply adorable! The Knights Templar have been the focus of many popular novels lately so these toys are quite timely as well.
How creepishly cute is Gertrude on the right? The monster bag from Felting in Fibrespace even has an eye that pops out when Gertrude isn't feeling too shy.
Gertrude is a little shy, see how her hair hangs in front of her face, she's trying to hide. However, when she's had a bit too much to drink, she shows her wild side. She has a tendency to poke her tongue out at people and with a little encouragement she'll perform her amazing party trick, not many monsters can pop their eyeball out of their socket!
Gertrude the monster bag is sold in Fireplace's Etsy store. Felting in Fibrespace also has a bag for dreamers named Duncan.
Josh Lowensohn at Webware reports on a cool new website called Paper Critters that helps you design cute and evil looking paper critters online.
For DIY nuts out there, the Web is a source of plentiful project ideas and guides. It's also the home of a handful of paper craft projects, the kind you can print out and put together with a little bit of glue and ingenuity. A new, and really neat one got sent our way this weekend. It's called Paper Critters, and it's a Web-based creation tool for making your own desk art in the form of a boxlike creature. You can edit all five sides of it using a simple drag-and-drop editor with a variety of stamps and drawing tools. There's also a custom stamp that lets you use an image from your hard drive.
You get different eyes, noses, tattoos and other character features depending on how cute or evil you choose to make your paper critter. You can preview your critter in 3-D before you print it. The paper critter print-out includes the instructions for cutting and folding your paper critter into the correct shape once you are finished. You can also add your critter to the websites Colony feature which contains thousands of other people's critter creations. You can also see a list of ten best paper critters.
The Softie awards are underway. You have the opportunity to enter a Softie in one of 12 different categories including bears and bunnies, inanimate object and creepy yet still cute. A faq can be here. To enter you just upload a picture of your softie to the Flickr group. Complete instructions can be found here. (via Craftzine)