Jenny Ryan's Craft how-to: a comic book starburst

No Carl Barks comic books were destroyed in the making of this starburst.

My friend Jenny Ryan is writing a weekly how-to for Craft. Her first project -- a comic book starburst to put on a giftwrapped present!

Every Tuesday you can look forward to a brand new CRAFT tutorial--from sewing to cooking to knitting and more. Let's start off with a fun paper project, shall we?

I was looking for a fun and inexpensive way to decorate gifts, and settled on these Comic Book Starbursts (maybe because I'm married to a cartoonist!). Of course you could use any kind of paper you like, be it scrapbook paper, hand-stamped construction paper, or even stiff fabric. Read on to find out how to do it!

Jenny Ryan's Craft how-to: a comic book starburst

• [monstrinho_do_biscoito]

  i can’t believe anyone needs instructions to make this.

• [Timothy Hutton]

  I used to make Christmas Trees out of an old Reader’s Digests and a can of green spray paint. I’ll happily write it up for Make, if interested Mark. ;^) (My mom said she loved them, but she can’t seem to put her hands on one right now. I hope she wasn’t fooled and tried to re-plant them in her yard!)

  Seriously, it’s a nice piece of handy craft.

• [wolfiesma]

  We did a kids’ party before and rolled up comic print from the newspaper in cone shapes like these. They worked well for holding Pirate’s booty/popcorn.

• [Anonymous]

  I can’t believe anyone would do that to a comic. Oy vey!