Wavy paper lace edges tutorial!

Hi all. How are you doing today?

Today I'm going to share a tutorial with you all on how to create wavy paper lace edge on your circle layouts or cards!
Last month I was so honored to be Scrapbook News and Review's Featured Artist, and made this tutorial for that feature. Now I want to share it here in my blog too ;o)

This is the layout I did with this edge technique;

The beautiful pattern papers, background stamp and "Adorable" paper tag are from Onirie. Bird stamp from Layers of Color, and flowers, green journal paper pieces, clear tapes and small butterflies stamps from Prima.

And a close-up showing some details and the paper lace;

And here is the first layout I made for about a year ago where I used this technique, but where the edge is even more wide and "wavy" to fit to the more romantic and vintage style;

 I used lots of Prima products on this layout from CHA release winter 2010.

And here a close-up of the lace edge;

And now, over to the steps for how to do this edge;

Wavy Paper Lace Edge Tutorial

Supplies
•Scissors
•Craft Knife
•Sewing Machine
•Ranger Dabber (Snow Cap) or white acrylic paint
•Chalk ink or Ink in color of choice
•2 papers; 1 solid and 1 patterned and not too thick
•Ruler
•Pen
•Strong Clear Glue
•Paper Craft Glue

Step One: Draw a circle in the center of your layout. I used a plate to help me draw the circle. Be sure to leave at least 2.5 centimetres left on each edge of a 12”x12” layout.




 
 

Step Two: Cut out the circle and remove the edge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Step Three: Make a template that is 3.7 centimetres high, 2 centimetres wide on the bottom and 4 centimetres wide on the top, as shown on the white paper in this image. If possible, use a thick paper or cardstock for this as it makes it easier to use over and over again and to draw lines around.

Step Four: Choose a patterned paper to use for the paper lace edge and lay it upside down on your work surface. Then use your template and draw this shape on the backside of your patterned paper as shown in the following image.

Step Five: Using a craft knife or a pair of scissors, cut out paper strips by following the drawn lines.






 
 
 
 

Step Six: Now you can easily and quickly cut the short lines and you’ll have all your small paper pieces ready for the next step
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Step Seven: Using an edge punch, put one short paper segment and one piece of paper in the punch to create a shaped edge. Make sure you punch the widest edge of each paper segment (the one that is 4 centimetres wide).

Step Eight: Each of your paper pieces should look like this:

Step Nine: Use the paint dabber or acrylic paint to randomly cover the punched edges of each paper piece.


 
 

Step Ten: All your paper pieces show now look like this
 
 
 

Step Eleven: Apply a very thin line of glue on the outer edge of the circle paper, trying to keep the glue as far out on the edge as possible, and then glue on each paper piece not farther into the circle paper than 0.5 centimetres each. Glue on one and one piece beside each other with a gap of about 0.2 centimetres between each inner edge.

Step Twelve: When all your paper pieces are glued on, your circle paper and paper edge should look like this:

Step Thirteen: Use a sewing machine to sew around the circle paper to faster even paper piece to the edge. Use a zigzag pattern and try to sew only on the double paper edges.

Step Fourteen: If there are any edges left on the paper pieces that aren’t sewn, you can fold them up with your finger nails. This will create a fancy and “used” look.





 

Step Fifteen: Now you can lay a piece of paper over the circle paper to cover it up, and then use a ink pad or chalk ink pad to ink and distress the folded edges a bit.

Step Sixteen: Use three fingers to fold every single paper piece like this to create a fold.

Step Seventeen: Try to place each folded paper piece so each edge is meeting each other. Only do two at a time. Try to place the edges between two pieces so they meet each other (you’ll have to force the paper pieces to curl a bit while doing this) and then sew a zigzag seam back and forward two or three times on the edges to fasten them together. You don’t have to fasten the thread now. When one is done, move forward to the next piece and continue around the whole circle until all pieces are done.

Step Eighteen: Now cut all off all the long threads on the front and backside of the sewn paper.

Step Nineteen: Where the punched edges don’t meet perfectly to each other, you can use scissors to shape it a bit and to cut off small pieces to make them fit better.

Step Twenty: Use a strong, clear glue to fasten the thread. If you glue on the backside of all the seams, you’ll fasten it better and make sure it won’t loosen or tear off. You’ll also make the whole paper edge stronger. Leave it to dry.

Step Twenty-One: Now your background paper with a handmade paper lace edge should look like this and will be ready to decorate as desired.



Please note! This tutorial is for the thinnest paper lace sample shown here on the turqoise layout. To create the wider more vintage one, you have to make the template larger (wider in both ends and longer) size depending on how large you want the paper lace to be. Please also note, for each inch you add to the template, you have to take away x2 on the with on the circle background paper to create the same size on your work. I also recommand you to do step sixteen before step eleven when the paper pieces are larger, so they will fold enough before sweing them on.

All this probably seems as much work, but I promise you that it aint difficult to do at all. And when you have done it one time, its very easy and quick to do another one next time ;o)

Hope you liked my tutorial, and wish you good luck if you will give it a try, which I hope you will! ;o)

Take care everyone, and enjoy the week!
*hugs* Ingvild

Melissa Frances card for my amazing Mum

Hi all.

It's time to share some works again, my 2nd work as a GDT for Melissa Frances this month!

I made a mini album tag-card with pics of amazing mum, as a little gift to her to remind her of how beautiful she still is.  Here is the front of the card;

The vintage circle lace is a vintage little cloth, and 90% of the rest are from Melissa Frances.

This is the 2nd and 3rd page, showing my mum as a 2 year old girl in 1952. Again, products from Melissa Frances!

Here you can see the tag that was inside the 3rd page, pulled up and showing my beautiful mum as she looks like today, at age 61. Dosnt she still looks amazing?!

And a few close-ups as always ;o)

Showing some details and layers.

The old photo of my mum and some details as melted wax and painted felt flowers etc.

It was truly fun to create with these soft and vintage products, I really love it all! Thank you Melissa Frances for this opportunity!

And thank you to all of you for dropping by! *hugs*

Ingvild

New Facebook profile!

Hi
Its been a while since last post now, and I the reason is creazy times as always... This time I have even had a water leak at my scrap place, and are now working on a new one. Had to remove all my stuff in one day, so its now all in big boxes waiting for me to finish up my new room ;o) Looking forward to get this room, but was not so happy about the fact that I had to move it all when I already was behind on works.  I will share pics of my new scrap space when I'm finish with it, ok? ;O)

And as you maybe already knew, I am also on Facebook. But now I have also got a "Artist Page" which I am working on these days! This is my Facebook profile where I will write in English and post my things about scrapbooking, photo and design. Please make sure to check it out here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ingvild-Bolme/161452573889763 . And PS; I have a Christmas Gift Draw going on in there, so drop in and check it out! ;o)

Hope to see you there, and I promise other updates in here very soon! ;o)

*Hugs*

Sharing some pics from Halloween...

Hi everyone. Did you have a great Halloween?

We had a great day. Iselina was a witch, and was so excited about the whole thing, the whole day. She's 4 in 2 weeks, so Halloween is still something "new" for her, but she can still remember when she was a ghost last year ;o) In Norway Halloween is a "new thing". Its not more then maybe 2-3 years since we used to say that Halloween was "something American" that we was not used to, and we didnt celebrate it in our family at all. But in the least years it has changed, now more and more Norwegians does celebrate Halloween, and usual all the kids go trick or treats now. But last year, since our family was not used to Halloween yet, and Iselina had not even turned 3 years yet, we didnt think about Halloween at all before some kids was at our door for trick or treats... There and then I had to find out a quick solution for Iselina so she could go with them. And, the solution was an old sheet and some face paint we had in house, so she walked the trick and treat as a little ghost. You should have seen this ghost, because it had some big scared eyes in two holes in the sheet, because even though she loved Halloween, she thought the whole thing was a bit scary...

Here is a image of her little cute and a bit scared face from last year;

But now, even though she thought it was a bit scary last year, she have waited and waited for Halloween this year, and this year we was a bit better prepared. This year she was a witch and looked like this;

I think she looked so different from herself, couldnt believe my sweet little girl was under that painting! lol

And this is what all our neighbors met when they opened their door on Sunday... A little one meter tall witch.. ;o)

Sha almost looks scared this year too, and even maybe a bit sad. But she LOVED it, and was so happy and excited about the whole thing. As I have told before, she love to be in front of the camera and knows exactly how to act to each "setting". And now, since she was a witch, she wanted to look serious. And maybe the face paint made her look a lot different too. But she was a happy girl, and after only a little hour, she came back home with a big bucket FULL of treats!

While talking about being in fron of the camera; Iselina and I had another shoot here the other day. And here is one photo from that shoot;

You can also find some more in my gallery on the left site here in my blog. Please just scroll to you find the one named "Photos of Iselina", and click in there.

Thats all for now, now I have to run to catch my classes at school. And I have to say; ITS FUN TO STUDY GRAPHIC DESIGN! :D

Thank you for dropping by, I appreciate your visit a lot.
Have a nice day everyone!

 *hugs* Ingvild






Oh, almost forgot; our spooky Halloween lamp! ;)  Bye now ;)