Paper braiding

Happy Saturday! As promised I'm here to share a tutorial on the Braided Paper Technique (do you call it a technique? Sure. LEt's call it a technique). I've seen this a few times lately and just had to give it a try. I credit "Brandy" from "brandyscards" when I stumbled across her YouTube video via Pinterest. I couldn't find her website but if you google "brandyscards" you will be able to see a video tutorial from her. Subsequent to seeing the video I came across another tutorial and lovely…

Happy Saturday! As promised I'm here to share a tutorial on the Braided Paper Technique (do you call it a technique? Sure. LEt's call it...

This card was made at the request of my husband. He grew up on the east coast of Canada and loves lighthouses. I was getting ready ...

Learn to make your own colorful bracelets of threads or yarn. As fun for beginners as it is to intermedates. Learn. Get inspiration. Share ideas.

This was done more than 15 years ago. Not very clear photo diagrams but I hope you can get something from it.

The inspiration for this card took quite a while to gel and mesh together. It started with Karen Barber's color challenge: use Cherry Cobbler, Calypso Coral and More Mustard - a combination that is way out of my comfort zone. I started working on it last Tuesday, but I was really struggling and couldn't come up with a good idea. I got as far as die cutting two shapes - one in cherry and one in coral, then cut strips of mustard, and that was it! All the things I tried to do with what I had…

I have completely fallen for the chevron trend. Can't get enough of it. I came up with this fun technique to create a chevron pattern using paper braiding for a story opener in the August issue of Scrapbooks Etc. magazine. You can find step-by-step photos and directions for creating this...