Every plan on the shelf, newest first. Entries appear here on the day they are finished, so the list grows one or two at a time rather than all at once.
2026-08-29
A collar is the cheapest way to change a plain paper lantern: a 660 mm band, twelve score lines, two folds — and the band is joined at 330 mm rather than cut from one long sheet, because the join is hidden under a pleat and a single 660 mm sheet is four times the price.
Dimensional scenes
Difficulty 2/5 · 60 min
WRAP BAND
2026-08-25
Crepe paper peonies fail for one reason: the petals are cut to the same length. Two sizes, a 16 mm difference, and a stem whose wire never reaches the centre — that is the whole method. Twenty-four petals, 55 minutes, no specialist tooling.
Paper flowers
Difficulty 2/5 · 55 min
PETAL ROSETTE
2026-08-21
The whole template is one cross-shaped net that prints on a single A4 sheet and folds in about six minutes. Three things decide whether it looks bought or home-made: print scale, scoring before cutting, and glue applied to the tab and not the panel.
Printable templates
Difficulty 1/5 · 25 min
BOX NET
2026-08-18
A shadow box fails at the corners long before it fails at the scenery. This one is built as a single cross net with 10 mm tabs, dry-fitted with masking tape first, and glued only once the aperture has been checked against a set square.
Dimensional scenes
Difficulty 3/5 · 120 min
BOX NET
2026-08-14
Three concentric rings — 7, 6 and 5 petals — each rotated 9° against the one below, so no cut edge ever stacks on another. The head is mounted on a rolled paper stem instead of wire so the finished flower survives being posted.
Paper flowers
Difficulty 4/5 · 95 min
PETAL ROSETTE
2026-09-29
The calla is a single cone with one detail that decides whether it looks real: the long edge is curled back over the dowel for the last 25 mm. Get that curl and a 45-minute flower reads as a flower; skip it and you have made a paper trumpet.
Paper flowers
Difficulty 3/5 · 45 min
CONE NET
2026-09-26
A card file has one job — to stand up when it is full and not tip when it is empty. That is a base-weight problem, not a folding problem: this net uses a doubled base with a greyboard insert, and the sides are cut with finger scallops so a full box can be lifted off a shelf.
Printable templates
Difficulty 2/5 · 45 min
BOX NET
2026-09-23
The depth cue that makes a paper diorama work is not the number of layers, it is the gap between them. Seven ridges at 13 mm, each one 6% lighter than the one in front of it, plus waxed tracing paper between the front two for haze.
Dimensional scenes
Difficulty 4/5 · 150 min
BOX NET
2026-09-20
A marigold is not a flat flower, so this one is built from two coil sizes — 30 mm for the outer ring, 18 mm for the inner — with three wire-centred quills standing proud of the middle. One A4 sheet of 90 gsm paper makes the whole bloom.
Paper flowers
Difficulty 3/5 · 70 min
QUILLING STRIPS
2026-09-17
The fastest thing in this whole library: one A4 sheet, one curve, one seam. It holds about 180 g of small sweets, and the only two decisions that matter are paper weight and whether the base disc is sealed from the inside.
Printable templates
Difficulty 1/5 · 20 min
CONE NET
2026-09-12
Every paper bouquet needs something that is not a flower. Nine round silver-dollar leaves on a stiff wire, alternating left and right, at a spacing that narrows toward the tip. Forty minutes, and it is the piece that makes the other flowers look arranged rather than collected.
Paper flowers
Difficulty 1/5 · 40 min
FOLIAGE SPRAY
2026-09-07
Bunting hangs badly for two reasons: the tape is one long strip that twists, and the pennants are cut with a 200 gsm card body but no spine. This string uses four 800 mm tape sections, one fold per pennant, and alternates the drop by 24 mm.
Dimensional scenes
Difficulty 1/5 · 45 min
GARLAND SHEET
2026-09-02
A concertina card lives or dies on one thing: the folds have to alternate and every panel has to be exactly the same width. This one is cut as a single 630 mm strip — no joins — scored on a 700 mm board, and closed by a sleeve rather than an envelope.
Printable templates
Difficulty 2/5 · 55 min
WRAP BAND
2026-10-12
A paper wreath fails when the leaves are all the same size and all pointing the same way. This one uses three leaf lengths, three greens, and a placement rule that walks the direction around the ring by 15° per leaf so the wreath has a clear top and bottom.
Printable templates
Difficulty 2/5 · 65 min
FOLIAGE SHEET
2026-10-09
Dahlias are distinguished from chrysanthemums by one feature: the petal tips are notched, not pointed. Thirty-two petals in four rings, each ring rotated by a quarter of a petal pitch, plus a scalloped tip you cut before the petal is separated from its stack.
Paper flowers
Difficulty 4/5 · 130 min
PETAL ROSETTE
2026-10-06
Mobiles fail for one reason: the tiers are not balanced, so the whole thing hangs at an angle and stops turning. Five rings, each measured against the one above before gluing, hung from a 200 mm hoop on nylon line rather than thread.
Dimensional scenes
Difficulty 2/5 · 75 min
SCALLOP SHEET
2026-10-02
Most quilling failures are a cutting problem, not a rolling problem. A burr on one edge of a strip makes the coil spiral off-centre, and burrs come from cutting 120 gsm paper with a dull blade in a single pass. This sheet is a production jig rather than a craft template.
Printable templates
Difficulty 1/5 · 30 min
QUILLING STRIPS
| Paper flowers | 6 |
| Dimensional scenes | 5 |
| Printable templates | 6 |
| Total | 17 |