Badge: Paper Craft Techniques II

Badge Program: Paper Craft Techniques II
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The steps in this badge program focus on how to adapt and adjust a piece of paper. It’s all about cutting, folding and doing other things to a sheet of paper without adding anything to it. Experiment with the techniques as stated and then continue with your experiments. Be sure to document what you do.

Steps

1. Adapt.

You can adapt techniques from other crafts to paper. As you work through all the badge programs, pay attention to those that have been adapted from other crafts. Can you expand on this list?

2. Alter.

Many of the other steps in this badge program discuss different ways to alter a sheet of paper. As you work through the many ways to alter a sheet of paper, make notes of those you find during your experimenting. Remember that a sheet of paper may be wet or dry. It may be flat, folded or somewhere in-between. Don’t limit yourself to the steps in this badge set.

3. Crumple.

Take a sheet of paper and crumple it into a ball. Flatten it out with your hands. You’ll have random hills and valleys across the paper. This allows you to create texture with a flat piece of paper. Try different ways to “crumple” paper to see the variety of ways to create an irregular pattern. You can even use an ink pad lightly to highlight the random pattern so you can see it better.

4. Cut.

You might trace a shape and cut it out. You might try your hand at papel picado or kirigimi. Even paper snowflakes include cutting. Don’t limit yourself to straight-edged scissors. Scissors with different edges allow you to make waves, zig zags and a slew of other shapes that you might use flay or in layers. Find a paper cutting project to try.

5. Distress.

To distress, you want to “damage” the paper without cutting or tearing it. You can use a blade against the edges to soften them. You can use sandpaper to remove part of a printed sheet or applied color. In addition, adding water or stains to moisten the paper until it comes apart is another distressing technique. Experiment with distressing your paper.

6. Fold.

Folding is a general term. You might fold paper for a pocket, an envelope, a fan, an origami or kusadama shape or some other embellishment. Try some folding techniques while making your own paper art.

7. Fringe.

Cutting a lot of small cuts into the edge of a piece of paper creates a “fringe.” To make it more uniform, you might want to put a piece of blue tape down as an indicator of where to stop cutting. Try making a small area fringed or the edge of an entire sheet of paper.

8. Lacé / Incere.

This technique combines paper cutting and folding, interlinking the folds to create a visual “braid.” The two names, Lace and Incere, are companies that provide materials for this technique.

9. Layers.

Not all layers are nested (see the next step). You can have them staggered, stacked or even placed abstractly so they intersect the lines of previous layers. While this is easier than nesting layers, it takes more thought and experimenting to look good. Like nested layers, you can do other paper techniques to the layers. Experiment with non-nested layers.

10. Layer nested.

Layering nested shapes allows you to create multiple layers with as many shapes as you like. The shapes become progressively smaller and are centered on the one before. So you might use four circles with each one getting smaller. The top-most layer becomes the focal point of the layers. The shapes might have smooth or scalloped edges. You can also dry emboss, stamp or decorate each layer as you wish. Experiment with nested layers.

11. Pergamano.

Pergamano is a brand name. Starting with parchment paper, you can punch, cut, perforate or dry emboss it in any number of ways to create designs on the paper without adding anything to it. Special tools exist for this technique. Check out images of pergamano to see how elegant this technique is.

12. Piercing.

While this might technically fall into pergamano, piercing is making holes in a piece of paper, not necessarily parchment paper. Ornare is one company that has stencils and more for this technique. The holes left behind can spell words, be in a shape, etc. Try paper piercing.

13. Shaping.

This is especially helpful when you’re making paper flowers. Shaping might include drawing a line with a stylus to create a raised area to simulate the veins on a leaf. You might also just make paper curl to give lift to a flower petal. Check out videos that show making paper flowers to see the variety of ways in which you can shape paper.

14. Tearing.

How can this be a technique? Tearing paper allows you to have a soft edge. If you want the look of snow, a torn edge is better than one cut with scissors. You can tear randomly or use a ruler to guide your tears. There are even rulers with edges designed to allow you to tear it according to a pre-determined pattern. Try tearing paper.

15. Weave.

Weaving is another technique that involves cutting the paper into strips and weaving it together. It also includes “Papuela” which combines cutting using brass stencils and then weaving small strips to make patterns. Check out both types of weaving. How else might you weave paper? Try it!

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