Anyone who first sees products made in the form of carved lace from plain paper is always surprised that such beauty is easy to create with your own hands. Everyone can master openwork paper cutting. The schemes that are taken as the basis are easy to find in the specialized literature. The necessary tools are inexpensive and affordable.
Decor Ideas
You can use this interesting technique both for making postcards, panels, and decorating the interior. Products are usually made of white or black paper, but other shades also look great. The interesting thing is that they perform not only flat things. Volumetric openwork paper cut looks very impressive. Schemes for such objects are also presented in the form of a contour drawing on a flat sheet, which is then folded along certain lines and glued into a three-dimensional part. So, in the silhouette carving technique, you can do the following:
- Postcards.
- Snowflakes.
- Decorations for windows.
- Napkins for the table.
- Volumetric decor based on a flat product or assembled three-dimensional paper design.
Having mastered simple options, you can make things fabulously beautiful.
Materials and Tools
You will need the following to master openwork paper cutting:
- Schemes and printer to print them.
- Sheets of white (or other) color.
- Breadboard knife.
- The base on which you will cut (a special tablet, a regular board or a piece of thick cardboard).
- Manicure small scissors as an alternative to a knife or an addition to it.
The rest is optional and depends on how you use the blanks:
- Glue on a colored base - decorative cardboard and glue.
- Hang on a Christmas tree or in the space of a room - pendants (threads).
- To decorate a window - ordinary or double-sided tape.
In fact, nothing complicated, special, or expensive is needed. Ordinary office stationery. The main thing is patience, perseverance and the desire to make a masterpiece with your own hands.
Openwork paper cutting: schemes, master class
Traditionally, patterns are created by cutting out part of the pattern on a folded sheet in a certain sequence. One of the most common and familiar products is snowflakes, but you can make not only them. A napkin or mirror frame made according to the following pattern will look very impressive.
Work like this:
- Take a sheet of white paper and fold it.
- Attach the printed drawing to the tracing paper and circle the outline twice to draw it on the tracing paper and then transfer it to the prepared base, or cut the blank of a part of the pattern as a stencil and circle.
- Cut the pattern with sharp scissors.
- Expand the product.
- Iron the folds with an iron through another sheet. Can be flattened with a regular spoon.
- Put a lace napkin on colored cardboard or paper. Gently glue with a compound that does not stain.
- Laminate the product. So it will last longer and retain its pristine beauty.
Openwork paper cutting: New Year's schemes
To decorate the interior with elements of this technique, you can make various decorations according to ready-made patterns. Print them in the right scale (usually blanks are designed for a standard A4 album sheet), cut out the pattern. On the Internet, there are a lot of blanks both directly for festive and just for winter topics.
- Christmas trees.
- Houses.
- Snowmen.
- Entire landscapes and lace story scenes.
Get started with simple schemes.
Having mastered the principle and having trained your hand, move on to more complex multi-object compositions.
How to make beautiful snowflakes
One of the most traditional and favorite ways to decorate a room for the New Year is to decorate it with paper snowflakes. Usually they are glued to windows, cabinet doors, walls. Some make garlands of them, hang them on threads or arrange them on a Christmas tree.
To make beautiful openwork snowflakes from paper, it is better to take ready-made schemes for cutting.
The main thing is to fold the sheet of paper correctly for applying the template. Any snowflake consists of a repeating pattern around the circumference. There are blanks for 1/6 and 1/12 parts. The second option with a narrower sector is obtained by additionally adding the blank for 1/6 of the part. Folding a part can be done on the basis of a circle already cut out or any sheet that is first cropped to a square, then folded or, conversely, folds are first performed, and then the shape of the circle sector is cut.
So, you have learned in more detail what is openwork paper cutting. Schemes for any product, you can take ready-made or show imagination and develop your own exclusive thing. Get creative. Create a beautiful decor with your own hands.