Paper Piecing
Good morning! Tracy here today. It’s tuesday so that means I will be showing some tips and tricks. This week I thought I would demonstrate paperpiecing. I LOVE this technique. Especially for a large image like the one that I will be using. You don’t have as much coloring to do and just need to do a bit of shading on the patterned paper. I find that 6×6 paper pads are the best to use for this because of the size of the patterns.
First you want to stamp you image onto your paper of choice. I used Uptown Girls Bianca Loves Her Big Cake by Stamping Bella. These are large images and are fantastic for paperpiecing!
Notice when I stamped the image part of the dress did not stamp out. I didn’t restamp it or fill it in because the dress is what I plan to paper piece and you won’t even see that.
Reink up your image. I don’t ink the entire image, I just usually try to get it on the area that I need to stamp out only. That way I am also not wasting other portions of my patterned paper.
Stamp you image onto the patterned paper of choice. As I said before, small patterns are best.
Before you cut out the image, do you shading and highlighting. You can do this after you cut, but I find it easier to do it beforehand.
Cut out the dress.
Color ALL of your image and then add your paper pieced dress LAST. Otherwise you may have problems getting the ink in areas close by or shading those areas. After you image is all colored glue down your paper pieced item.
Here is the final image all colored and put together.
The other supplies that I used were:
Patterned paper – Fabulous by Simple Stories
Sentiment – Bold Sentiments (Bday) by SP & Company
Image – Uptown Girl Bianca Loves her Big Cake
Cardstock – Candy Bar and Candy Necklace by Bazzill Cardshoppe Cardstock
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Comments (5)
Ashley
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Tracy, that is pretty cool! Cute card!
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sharon gullikson
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Paper piecing is my favorite thing to do. I’m not thrilled with the cutting part, but the look is worth it for sure! The spotty dress looks so cute. What a cute look.
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Deborah
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That is so cute. I love the dp.
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Beverly Jordan
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Love the polka dot dress and the yummy chocolate cake! Great tutorial too! I was playing with 2 of Prima’s stamps myself. It reminds of paper doll dress up from years gone by and it was so relaxing and fun! Thanks or sharing!! Love your card, Tracy!
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Cely (Carolina Girl)
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Fabulous card and thanks for the helpful hints of paper piercing….something I don’t do very ofter and wonder why when the effects are so much fun! Thank you for the inspiration!
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