Openwork carving from paper: schemes and recommendations

Anyone who first sees the products made in the form of carved laces from ordinary paper, is always surprised that it is not difficult to create such beauty with their own hands. Everyone can learn the openwork carving from paper. Schemes, which are taken as a basis, are easy to find in the specialized literature. The necessary tools are inexpensive and affordable.

Decor ideas

Use this interesting technique you can both for the implementation of postcards, panels, and interior decorations. They make products usually from white or black paper, but other shades look great. It is interesting that not only do flat things. Very impressive is the voluminous openwork carving from paper. 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 to a three-dimensional detail. So, in the technique of silhouette cutting, you can do the following:

• Postcards.
• Snowflakes.
• Ornaments for windows.
• Table napkins.
• 3D decor based on a flat product or assembled three-dimensional paper construction.

Having mastered the simple options, you can make fabulous in beauty things.

Materials and Tools

You will need the following in order to master the openwork carving from paper:

• Schemes and printer to print them.
• Sheets of white (or other) color.
• Bread knife.
• The base on which you will cut (special tablet, plain board or a piece of cardboard).
• Manicure small scissors as an alternative to a knife or an addition to it.

The rest is optional and depends on how you will use the workpieces:

1. To glue on a color basis - a decorative cardboard and glue.
2. Hanging on a Christmas tree or in the room space - pendants (threads).
3. Decorate the window - usual or bilateral tape.

In fact, nothing complicated, special and expensive is needed. Ordinary office stationery. The main thing is patience, perseverance and desire to make a masterpiece by oneself.

Openwork carving from paper: diagrams, master class

Traditionally, patterns are created by cutting out a piece of a pattern on a sheet folded in a certain sequence. One of the most common and familiar products are snowflakes, but you can not only do them. Very effective will look a napkin or frame for a mirror, made according to the following pattern.

Work like this:

1. Take a sheet of white paper and fold it.
2. Attach the printed drawing to the tracing paper and double-circle it to first draw it on the tracing paper, and then transfer it to the prepared substrate, or cut out the piece of the pattern as a stencil and circle.
3. Cut out the pattern with sharp scissors.
4. Expand the product.
5. Iron the folds with an iron through another sheet. Can be smoothed with a regular spoon.
6. Put a delicate napkin on colored cardboard or paper. Gently glue it with a compound that does not leave stains.
7. Laminate the product. So it will last longer and preserve its pristine beauty.

Openwork carving from paper: New Year's schemes

To decorate the interior of the elements of this technique, you can perform various decorations on ready-made patterns. Print them on the right scale (usually the blanks are for a standard A4-sized sheet of paper), cut out the pattern. In the vastness of the Internet, there are many blanks both directly festive and just winter themes.

• Christmas balls.

• Firs.
• Houses.
• Snowmen.

• Entire landscapes and lace story scenes.

Begin working with simple schemes. Having mastered the principle and trained your hand, go 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 with paper snowflakes. Usually they are glued to windows, cabinet doors, walls. Some make garlands of them, hang them on strings or put them on a Christmas tree.

To make beautiful openwork snowflakes from paper, it is better to take out the cutting out schemes. The main thing is to properly fold a sheet of paper to apply the template. Any snowflake consists of a pattern repeating along the circumference. There are blanks for 1/6 and 1/12 parts. The second variant with a narrower sector is obtained by additionally adding the workpiece to 1/6 of the piece. You can fold a part on the basis of an already cut circle or any sheet that is first trimmed to a square, and then folded or, conversely, first the folds are made, and then the shape of the circle sector is cut out.

So, you learned in more detail what an openwork carving of paper is. Schemes for any product can be taken ready or displayed fantasy and develop your own exclusive thing. Do creativity. Create beautiful decor with your own hands.