Scrapbooking Paper Piecing for the Beginner.
Simple Tips and Techniques
Paper piecing is one of my favorite embellishments in scrapbooking. It is one of the most inexpensive ways to add a lot of dimension and emotion to a page. You can truly create anything with just a couple pieces of paper and imagination. If you have a pen, paper and a little imagination, you can create a paper piecing.
The way most people start paper piecing is to use free patterns which are available on the internet or from friends or scrapbooking resources. This guide is for people who want to move beyond other people's creations, and make their own personal paper piecing patterns. I have over 50 paper piecing patterns that I have created that I work from. The joy of using your own creation is indescribable.
Usually, a paper piecing pattern begins with an idea and simple sketch. The sketch is created in approximately the size i want the finished paper piecing to be. Then, using a light box, overlay the sketch with a blank piece of white paper. Look at the sketch and break down the simple sketch into its parts. Arms, legs, bodies etc. or wheels, body, windows etc.. Identify each component which makes up an image and trace it individually. Make sure that you are giving room for pieces to overlap to put your adhesive! Once you have tracing those pieces from your original sketch, you have a pattern.
This pattern now can be used to create a paper piecing! Using your light box, trace the pieces and cut out. Assemble as you have pictured it.
Congratulations! You have now created your first original paper piecing!
If you are no good at drawing, you can use coloring pages or simple line drawings. The paper piecing will not be your original work, but will still be great for your scrapbooking pages!!
If you just want a finished paper piecing, feel free to visit my store or contact me for the paper piecing you are looking for!
Simple Tips and Techniques
Paper piecing is one of my favorite embellishments in scrapbooking. It is one of the most inexpensive ways to add a lot of dimension and emotion to a page. You can truly create anything with just a couple pieces of paper and imagination. If you have a pen, paper and a little imagination, you can create a paper piecing.
The way most people start paper piecing is to use free patterns which are available on the internet or from friends or scrapbooking resources. This guide is for people who want to move beyond other people's creations, and make their own personal paper piecing patterns. I have over 50 paper piecing patterns that I have created that I work from. The joy of using your own creation is indescribable.
Usually, a paper piecing pattern begins with an idea and simple sketch. The sketch is created in approximately the size i want the finished paper piecing to be. Then, using a light box, overlay the sketch with a blank piece of white paper. Look at the sketch and break down the simple sketch into its parts. Arms, legs, bodies etc. or wheels, body, windows etc.. Identify each component which makes up an image and trace it individually. Make sure that you are giving room for pieces to overlap to put your adhesive! Once you have tracing those pieces from your original sketch, you have a pattern.
This pattern now can be used to create a paper piecing! Using your light box, trace the pieces and cut out. Assemble as you have pictured it.
Congratulations! You have now created your first original paper piecing!
If you are no good at drawing, you can use coloring pages or simple line drawings. The paper piecing will not be your original work, but will still be great for your scrapbooking pages!!
If you just want a finished paper piecing, feel free to visit my store or contact me for the paper piecing you are looking for!
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