The Great Viking Holiday Giveaway!

Jared Andrew Schorr is an amazing illustrator and paper artist with an Esty shop called Super Cool Spy Club and a website designed from his charming paper cut art at www.jaredandrewschorr.com . He’s also one of the thirty artists included in PUSH Paper !

Lark Books is hosting a giveaway of:

* Jared’s original papercut Viking artwork.

* A copy of PUSH Paper, featuring Jared and 29 other extraordinary paper artists

* An adorable pocket mirror with a print of one of Jared’s papercuts

Read more and enter the contest by clicking here.

Brooklyn 5 and 10 Paper Pulp Novel Giveaway

This plantable paper novel from Brooklyn5and10 is a fun little stocking stuffer. Inside the 'pulp novel' jacket are sheets of plantable paper pages. Planting the paper is easy: lay on soil, lightly cover and water. Fun.

And you lovely Paper Forest readers might win this item by leaving a comment listing another favorite stocking stuffer you might like to receive from the Brooklyn5and10 shop.

Loomi Light Kickstarter Project

Here is a fun little Kickstarter Project. The Loomi is a crafty little light by David Sosnow made of paper modules that can be customized by your artistic talents. There are many configurations and because it is made of paper there are all kinds of options to finish it however you like. Take a look at the video and support the project here.

Give Me Mora!

In case you don't know her, multi-talented, muti-media, multi-nationed (Cuban-American) admirable artist and person, Elsa (Elsita) Mora, has a special way with paper cuts. It's one of the many types of materials she uses to create her tiny treasures. Today, I'd like to share with you a hybrid she's just made, she's always inventing ingenious new things. She's taken paper silhouette, the size of which may too small to consider, and smashed the arrangement into rolled out polymer clay, baked it, and then once cured, hit the surface relief with a white patina to terrific effect. She said she plans to embellish it further with beads for a cameo, but I like the minimal state it's in as well. Keep her on your Etsy like list. She occasionally posts some of her darling wearable art pieces for sale there. UPDATE:: It is even more clever of her than I thought! Elsa just spilled the beans today that it isn't the cut pieces of paper you see composed up there on the clay. No. She has smartly taken rather the NEGATIVE space of the cut and rolled it onto the surface of the clay. Her step-by-step, sweetly answering all our questions is here.

Inside the Storybook Cupboard

Supreme paper artist Helen Musselwhite has done it again! This time she's taken her charming storybook style of paper cut outs and installed them into a simple old-fashioned cupboard, completed with marvelous light effects. She has a touch with layers and sense of space that bring me right into the world she's made. Brava! to Helen.