Express Night Out has a story that says wallpaper has come back into fashion.
Indeed, wallpaper - which first became popular in the 15th century among decor-mad Europeans who couldn't afford tapestries - has experienced a hipster revolution in the last decade. Target and Anthropologie started trafficking in the stuff. Trad companies such as Graham & Brown partnered with cutting-edge designers including Marcel Wanders to roll out wild patterns such as dusty red Celtic knots; newer houses such as Denmark's Ferm Living produce witty, pretty papers including the black-and-white "Fashion," with its silhouettes of catwalk babes. "People take toiles and update them or do florals in unexpected ways," says Aimee Lagos of Ferm's U.S. Web site (Fermlivingshop.us).
The way interior pros and DIYers use wallpaper has changed, too. While it's still chic to cover a small space (e.g., a powder room) with wall-to-wall damask or stripes, just papering a smidge of real estate comes across as modern and surprising. "It's important to break up your wallpaper," says D.C. interior design Joseph Ireland. "Doing paper in two adjoining rooms would be a mistake."
The helpful article also listed places you can buy wallpaper including Anthropologie, Target and Wallpapers To Go. There's another article about the sudden rise of wallpaper from dodgy to chic here in the Commcercial Appeal.
You can see a video about some of the latest trends in wallpaper here.
NaniBirds are adorable 3D paper crafts birds. You can download the NaniBirds from NaniBird.com and then follow the instructiosn to assemble them. A lot of people have put their NaniBird creations on Flickr - see here. (via Folding Trees and Craftzine)
3M's Post-It Notes YouTube Channel ran a contest for user-submitted Post-It note videos. You can see the ten finalists in the video below. One of them will win a $10,000 prize on October 15th.
Netflix has gotten crafty with a website called Netflix Origami. The website says, "Although most origami requires special paper squares, we have adapted these designs so you can use NetFlix flaps without alteration. Just tear them off carefully at the perforated line and follow our step-by-step instructions for making paper-folding magic."
There are instructiosn for a Swan, a Frog, a Crab as well as some paper planes and other projects. (via Gizmodo)
This is a video from Eepybird. They are the people famous for the Diet Coke and Mentos experiments. In this experiment they had some help from Samurai Girl. This experiment involved sticking together 280,951 colored Post-Its to form slinkies. (via Geekologie)
Katrina Chalifoux of Rockford, Illinois won the Cheap Chic Weddings 2008 Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest. Katrina's toilet paper wedding dress above was one of 564 entries in the contest. Karina spent two weeks creating the dress with a raised flower pattern from molded toilet paper. Katrina took home a $1,000 gift card for her creation. This year's judges included Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Charmin and Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com. You see some of the other finalists here. Here'a a video about the annual contest.
In this video Madeline Merced - the How to Girl - teaches you how to easily make a cool and pretty Origami Valentine. Here's what you'll need.
scissors,
a ruler,
an assortment of origami paper (found at many craft stores),
and something sweet to add to your Valentine!
Madeline filled her Origami Valentine box with candy hearts that say sweet things like Be Mine and I Love You. Another good idea for your origami box would be those Valentine M&M's.
This video teaches you how to make a German paper stars which you can put on your tree or on wrapped Christmas presents or anywhere else you might need them.
You can decorate entire trees with these things. They're fun to make when you're just sitting around watching tv. You can make them with most any kind of paper. I used regular double-sided scrapbook paper for this one. You can use plain 'ol printer paper or even Christmas wrapping paper. But beware, the thinner the paper, the more difficult the star is to make. Also, if you want bigger stars, your paper not only needs to be wider, but longer.
Lizanne Falsetto, CEO of thinkProducts, wears the thinkThin Pink wrapper dress with eco-fashion designer Deborah Lindquist. Falsetto's thinkthin Pink bars benefitted Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Lindquist created the dress to promote the bars for October breast cancer awareness month. The thinkthink Pink wrapper dress will also be showcased at several fashion shows.
Singer, songwriter and designer Gwen Stefani has teamed up with Hewlett Packard (HP) for an online paper crafts project. The website can be found here. The projects include paper dolls as well as designs for use on CD covers and greeting cards.
The paper dolls link takes you to a website that lets you design Harajuka dolls. You select the doll you want and then select hairstyle, clothes, shoes, eyelashes, etc. Once you have finished designing your dolls you can then choose whether you want paper dolls or a greeting card starring your doll. After you have made this selection the program generates a PDF file which you download and then print.
The Gwen's Style For You option on the same HP website gives you a selection of Gwen's designs and illustrations for use on style sheets, greeting cards and mix CDs.
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 above screenshot is from a foreign tv show that shows skilled paper crafters making origami birds and dragons from large pieces of paper. You can watch the video here.
Singer, songwriter and designer Gwen Stefani has teamed up with Hewlett Packard (HP) for an online paper crafts project. The website can be found 
Josh Lowensohn at Webware 
