Paper Piecing Technique

 

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. For today's project, I did a Paper Piecing technique. This is a very easy technique in which you add color to a stamped image using colored paper. You can do this technique with minimal supplies including your scraps. You just need a bit (or maybe a lot) of patience because it involves some fussy cutting.

The stamps I used on this card are:

• Sweet Iris Fairy with flower dress rubber stamp
  
• Happy Birthday Phrase Rubber Stamp
  

1. I chose the papers that I will use for paper piecing. I will be paper piecing the fairy's dress.
2. I inked the stamp using a black pigment ink. I only inked the areas I will be using for the paper piecing.
3. I stamped the inked image on the colored paper doing my best for the right placement.
4. I heat set the inked impression to dry the ink using a heat gun before cutting.
5. I fussy cut the image. I try to cut on the line or as close to the line as I can get.
6. The hardest one to fussy cut is the edge of the skirt. I stamped the skirt four times so I can layer it on top of each other for dimension.
7. I used a stamping tool to stamp the fairy on white cardstock.
8. I inked the fairy with a blank pigment ink.  

 

 

1. I used Staedler color pencils to for the coloring. Although I have other brands of color pencils, I challenged myself to use this coloring set on this project. 
2. I blended the colors for the skin, using a light brown and light yellow. There is no skin tone color on the set. 
3. To create some depth, I colored heavily on areas I think have shadows, and lightly on areas that are lighted well. 
4. I blend the colors, going back and forth to create a smooth transition between the colors.
5. If I want an area to be really light in color, I color this area with a white color pencil first before adding the color.
6. Sometimes, the color pencil leaves some powder on the paper. I brush this off before proceeding to the next color to prevent color contamination.
7. On small areas like the ballet shoes, I started coloring a small area with the dark shade the transitioning to the next lighter shade.
8. I colored the edges of the skirt with red, the same color of the patterned paper. Although the skirt will be covered with the patterned paper, coloring the edges will allow me to offset the cut up skirt and still maintain the red color of the skirt.

 

1. I added shading to the cut up patterned paper skirt using a red alcohol marker. I also colored the edges to hide the white core of the paper.
2. I used a gold gel pen to color the trim of the dress top.
3. I adhered the cut up papers. 
4. I spritz the cut up colored paper with shimmer water.
5. I cut the colored fairy.
6. I adhered double adhesive tape to the back
7. I removed the backing paper with a craft knife.
8. I adhered this to another white cardstock to make the image sturdy since a part of this image will be upright. This step is for stamps without a coordinating die. Adhering the cardstock together before fussy cutting ensures that the cut ups will be identical.
9. I fussy cut the image leaving a small white border around it.

1. In fussy cutting, I usually keep the scissors still and move the paper around.
2. I added shimmer to the wings which I colored with metallic gold and silver color pencils from another color pencil set.
3. I adhered the patterned paper layers to the main image making sure that the top portion of the dress is lined up. I use tweezers to hold the small cut ups as I applied liquid glue to it. I only applied glue to the top portion of the skirt since I will zhush this later on.
4. Working on the card, I inked the sentiment stamp with Versamark ink.
5. I cut sliver off the space between the sentiment to make the words closer. I attached the words together with a piece of tape. 
6. I stamped the inked sentiment to the cardbase which I prepped with an anti-static powder tool first.
7. I poured pastel pink embossing powder to the sticky ink.
8. After I heated my heat gun, I melt the embossing powder by heating the back of the card panel first.
9. Once I noticed some melting, I move the gun to the front of the card base to finish off.

The steps on creating the card base is detailed on my blog. I decided to omit it here since the focus of this post is on paper piecing. I also don't want to bore you since this has is already a very long post.

I applied glue only on the area that will be adhered to the bottom portion of the fold on the card front.

Once I was happy with the placement and ready to commit, I adhered the fairy to the card front. I added transparent dimensional tape to the edges of the skirt to keep it up.

I added gems to the intricate paper for more sparkle.

This is how the card looks when the slider front is pulled open.

I hope you like today's project. 

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Maria Giselle B.

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