Printer manufacturer Canon Inc. runs a printing projects website called Creative Park, where users can download directions, patterns and designs for a variety of paper craft projects. The difficulty level of the projects on Creative Park range from novice-friendly to advanced. Canon offers all of the projects on Creative Park at no charge, allowing you to download as many as you wish.
Gifts
Canon offers patterns and instructions for birthday and holiday cards, which you can personalize with a person's name or even your own text. Some cards involve folding along pre-printed patterns, enabling you to create three dimensional art to your card. On Creative Park, users can also download designs for envelopes that match the theme of the card they wish to make. In addition to cards, Creative Park also offers patterns for gift boxes made from thicker paper such as card stock. Box patterns include some of the same themes as the cards, while others incorporate decorations such as three-dimensional paper butterflies on the lid.
Paper Models
Creative Park includes a variety of paper model patterns t help you create paper art for holiday d cor, gifts or toys for children. The Website gives you the pattern along with step-by-step instructions on fold the paper correctly to make cars with wheels that turn, birds that flap their wings and paper airplanes that glide through the air. When you print out the origami templates, your printer will also fill in colors for the final product, adding eyes to animals and people, texture to buildings and text to holiday items.
Scrapbooking
Canon provides scrapbooking projects on Creative Park, including themed kits to help you create an entire scrapbook page using your printer. Instead of having to glue different pieces of paper or other materials together, the kits allow you to print the entire design along with photographs on matte photo paper, speeding the scrapbooking-creation process. For those who still want to glue different materials to a page, Canon also offers individual designs you print and cut out.
Photo Files
When you need the right photo for a project, you can look at Canon's Creative Park for professional photos of people, places, animals and different objects. You download the picture files to your computer and then either print the photos or use them in your software program of choice to create calendars, cards or similar items.
Calendars
Canon also offers templates or completed designs with a variety of themes for calendars. Some calendar designs involve you putting together a three-dimensional model, while others use your own photos, adding a frame with the days of the month. To display on desks or tables, Creative Park has triangular calendars that are made of a single sheet of paper folded.
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