Folding Trees

I’m so excited to announce that my first papercraft book and kit, Paper Chains & Garlands, is now here! It’s available to purchase exclusively through Barnes and Noble.

Front of box

I was hoping that I’d be able to sell signed copies through my website, but it turns out that the shipping costs for me to receive author copies from the US make that an impossible dream. So, instead, if you’d like to buy my book, I’d be very grateful if you’d click through from the links on my site, so I can make a tiny commission from your purchase!

Back of box with pictures of all the projects down the left hand side

For those of you without a magnifying glass, the back of the box reads:

Paper chains and garlands make everything more festive! Turn your next celebration into a creatively crafted occation to remember. Create delightful decorations on themes that range from the seasonal (snowflakes, autumn leaves, cherry blossoms) to the decorative (pleated flowers, pinwheels, elephants). The illustrated instruction book by expert crafter June Gilbank shows you how to fold, cut, unfurl, and string chains and garlands like a pro. With tips on how to cut simple paper dolls as well as elegant Chinese lanterns, Paper Chains and Garlands is the perfect craft kit for expert crafters as well as beginners.

Inside the box: the book, 4 rolls of paper chain paper and 10 sheets of double-sided garland paper

The book has full illustrated instructions for all 14 projects and includes full-size templates.

Inside the book: pretty colours, and full instructions & illustrations by me!

I hope you’ll enjoy Paper Chains & Garlands. It’s a sweet little book and kit, and would make a perfect Christmas gift, if you’re thinking that far ahead!

If you’d like to buy it, please click through to Barnes & Noble now. It’s a total bargain at only $9.95, so don’t miss out! Thank you for your support

This week marks the first birthday of Folding Trees! When we started a year ago, Eve and I had no idea how successful our little site would become. We’re so grateful to all of you for checking in every day to see what paper delights we have found for you!

Here’s a recap of our most popular original tutorials over the past year:

1. Kusudama Ball (part 1 and part 2) by Eve
2. Lucky Wishing Stars by June
3. Tissue Paper Carnations by June
4. Balloon Lights by Eve

Here’s our original mission statement:

Our aim with Folding Trees is to collect the best tutorials we have found on the net, inspire you by highlighting amazing paper creations from talented artists and crafters, and share our own paper crafts and tutorials.

We’ve written over 400 posts  in our first year, and hope we’ve succeeded in bringing our missions statement to life on this site. Of course, we’d like to do even better in future! If you have any suggestions for what you’d like to see more (or less) of at Folding Trees in the coming year and beyond, please leave us a comment or e-mail us.

We’re also looking for new tutorial/printable submissions, so please let us know if you have a great papercraft idea that you’d like to share with our viewers.

Looking forward to year 2 and more paper craft delights… We hope you’ll be a part of it!

June & Eve

It’s not very often we feature a website that is actually not specifically about paper-craft; but I love the idea behind CraftFail.com. We all know that it sometimes takes 10 (or more!) crafty fails to produce 1 thing you want to keep.  Definately worth a look.