Openwork paper cutting: schemes and recommendations

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Those who first see products made in the form of carved lace from plain paper are always surprised that such beauty is easy to create with your own hands. Everyone can master openwork paper cutting. Schemes that are taken as a basis are easy to find in the specialized literature. The necessary tools are inexpensive and readily available.

Decor Ideas

You can use this interesting technique both for postcards, panels, and interior decoration. Products are usually made from white or black paper, but other shades also look great. It is interesting that not only flat things are performed. Volumetric openwork cutting out of paper looks very impressive. 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 into a three-dimensional part. So, in the silhouette cutting technique, you can do the following:

• Postcards.
• Snowflakes.
• Window decorations.
• Napkins for the table.
• Volumetric decor based on a flat product or an assembled three-dimensional paper structure.

Having masteredsimple options, you can make things fabulous in beauty.

Materials and tools

You will need the following to master openwork paper cutting:

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

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

1. Stick on a colored base - decorative cardboard and glue.
2. Hang on the Christmas tree or in the space of the room - pendants (threads).
3. Decorate the window - regular or double-sided tape.

In fact, nothing complicated, special and expensive is needed. General office stationery. The main thing is patience, perseverance and the desire to make a masterpiece with your own hands.

Openwork paper cutting: diagrams, master class

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

Work like this:

1. Take a sheet of white paper and fold it.
2. Attach the printed pattern to the tracing paper and circle the outline twice to first draw it on the tracing paper and then transfer from it to the prepared base, or cut out the blank part of the pattern as a stencil and circle it.
3. Cut out the pattern with sharp scissors.
4. Unfold product.
5. Iron the folds through another sheet. Can be flattened with a regular spoon.
6. Place the lace napkin on colored cardboard or paper. Apply carefully with a non-staining compound.
7. Laminate the product. So it will last longer and retain its original beauty.

Openwork paper cutting: New Year's schemes

To decorate the interior with elements of this technique, you can make various decorations according to ready-made templates. Print them in the desired scale (usually blanks are designed for a standard A4 landscape sheet), cut out the pattern. There are a lot of blanks on the Internet, both directly festive and just winter themes.

Christmas balls

• Christmas trees.



• Houses.
• Snowmen.

Whole landscapes and lacy plot scenes

Start with simple diagrams.

After mastering the principle and training your hand, move on 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 out of them, hang them on strings, or place them on a Christmas tree.

To make beautiful openwork paper snowflakes, it is better to take ready-made patterns for cutting.

The main thing is to correctly fold a sheet of paper to apply the template. Any snowflake consists of a pattern repeating around the circumference. There are blanks for 1/6 and 1/12 parts. The second option with a narrower sector is obtained by additionally adding the workpiece for 1/6 of the part. You can fold the part on the basis of an already cut circle or any sheet that is first cut to a square and then folded, or, conversely, folds are first made, and then the shape of a circle sector is cut out.

So, you have learned in more detail what an openwork paper cut is. You can take ready-made schemes for any product or show your imagination and develop your own exclusive item. Get creative. Create beautiful DIY decor.