Beautiful Cut Paper Animal Masks by Flurry & Salk.

above: cut paper Ram mask designed for Hermes.

Meet Nikki Salk and Amy Flurry. Nikki is an artist and fashion blogger, Amy is a freelance writer, editor and stylist. In January, 2010 the two women founded the Paper-Cut-Project, a company that conceives art direction and highly crafted installations in paper for window installations, runway, catalog and advertising campaigns.



Flurry and Salk describe their custom made paper art installations as "fueled by a love of fashion and an appreciation of the grace and nuance of this humble material"

They have designed installations and window displays for chic stores like Jeffrey New York and Atlanta and an exclusive collection of animals for Hermes.


Owl (for Hermes):

Bear (for Hermes):

Horse 1 (for Hermes):

Horse 2 (for Hermes):

Horse 3 (for Hermes):

Lion (for Hermes):

Cockatiel (for Hermes):


The above masks were designed exclusively for French luxury boutique Hermes, while the masks below are part of their Animalia series.

Owl:

Cockatiel:

Lion:

Hare:


The Paper Cut Project
Nikki Salk's fashion blog
Amy Flurry's website

Start Limbering Up Those Fingers: Here's 100 Paper Animals To Fold!

click on the above image to enlarge and get a good look at the images.




Love origami? Love Animals? Have fidgity kids? Or just really bored yourself? Then try folding these rasterized peramodels from Japan.



Raspera, which requires a payment via paypal for membership, provides you with downloadable and printable pdfs of over 100 photo realistic paper crafts in the form of animals and birds.




They have varying degrees of difficulty and all types of species. And each stands up on it's own:






Raspera members fee is $30.00 USD.or here (Application by letter). Then, they send you the password via e-mail, which will not only work for all current Rasperas, but also any future Rasperas.