Papercraft Tutorials
Below are links to the posts on my blog that match these tutorials. I'll probably be redoing these so the photography doesn't look awful... sometime...
How to Take Apart a Book (Without Ripping the Pages)

Coffee-table books often turn up in thrift stores, and they're chock full of thick, glossy, good-quality colored paper.  This tutorial shows you how to get that paper out of the book so that you can use it, without damaging it in the process.
Make your own bubble mailer envelopes - other tutorials

I have yet to make my own tutorial about this, but in the meantime, here's a  list of a bunch of different tutorials on how to make your own bubble mailers.  This is a great way to save money and/or put all that strong, pretty paper from the coffee-table books to good use!
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