Scallop Paper Lace Tutorials…

Jun 3, 2009

Oh am I ever so excited to share these two tuto­ri­als with you. This post is long but I believe you will think it was worth the extra long read.

The Scal­lop Paper Lace (top) reminds me of the vin­tage paper lace I have seen online. Even though noth­ing can replace the love I have for vin­tage items this new dis­cov­ery sure does open up a lot of pos­si­bil­i­ties for my cre­ativ­ity. The Scal­lop Ric Rac Paper Lace (bot­tom) I acci­den­tally made try­ing to fig­ure out how to make the scal­lop paper lace. I love it when things like this happen.

These two styles of paper lace will be per­fect to accent my cards, tags, lay­outs and projects. You can ink or mist these too. And if you do so on card­stock you will have a  beau­ti­ful neg­a­tive image left behind to use for another project.

Oh the pos­si­bil­i­ties are truly endless!

Pat­terned Paper Shown (Webster’s Pages Mag­i­cal Wishes I believe)

Items Needed:
Martha Stew­art Doily Lace Edger Punch
Light Weight Pat­terned Paper or Cardstock

Scal­lop Paper Lace Tuto­r­ial
1. Cut a strip of paper to 1.5″ and a bit longer than your desired length. Once the scal­lop paper lace was com­pleted I would then trim it to the desired length.

2. Place paper into punch as shown above and punch

3. After you punch your image slide the paper out and match up to the first scal­lop image as shown

4. Con­tinue to punch the strip of paper all the way to the oppo­site end

5. Rotate punched strip so that the unpunched side is away from you, place paper in punch, line paper in punch as shown and punch image

6. Silde paper strip out of punch and line up punched image as shown and con­tinue to punch paper strip until entire edge has been punched

7. This is what your com­pleted Scal­lop Paper Lace piece should look like once you finish.

Scal­lop Ric Rac Paper Lace Tuto­r­ial
1. Cut a strip of paper to 1.25″ wide and a bit longer than your desired length. Once the scal­lop ric rac paper lace was com­pleted I would then trim it to the desired length.

2. Place the paper strip into the punch as shown, punch image

3. After you punch your image slide the paper out and match up to the first scal­lop image as shown

4. Con­tinue to punch the strip of paper all the way to the oppo­site end

5. Rotate punched strip so that the unpunched side is away from you, place paper in punch, line paper in punch as shown and punch image

6. Silde paper strip out of punch and line up punched image as shown and con­tinue to punch paper strip until entire edge has been punched

7. This is what your com­pleted Scal­lop Ric Rac Paper Lace piece should look like once you finish.

I think these look cute on top of each other too… just use some foam squares to attach them, that is as long as you use white card­stock or some­thing that will allow the foam square to blend in so they aren’t seen too much.