Its easy to find white paper doilies, but if you want colors, that means going to a specialty store. Whether youre having a party or you just use small doilies for drink coasters, youll easily be able to make a wide range of disposable, paper doilies. Make them large and use them for table centerpieces or make really tiny ones and use them in a dollhouse. No matter what size, shape or color you have in mind making your own doilies is no problem.
At a craft store youll find a large variety of special scissors that will help you create the design you want around the edges of the doily. Of course, you dont want to spend big bucks on an array of decorative scissors just to make paper doilies, so consider purchasing something similar in the childrens craft aisle at a department store. The plastic scissors are cheap and can create any number of scallops, zig-zags or wavy edges on the paper.
Since youre making your own doilies you arent limited to the type of paper you can use. Check the scrapbook section of a craft store to find unique designs that can help you create a theme for a party. These papers are usually very thick in design. Use thinner paper, if you want, to create the doilies. Just about any paper type is suitable for creating any type of doily design. Paper punches are the other necessity when it comes to making doilies. The punches are found in craft stores and allow you to punch designs like circles, triangles, diamonds and more. Again, check childrens departments for cheaper versions of the punches. Metal punches, of course, are much more expensive than the plastic types. Create the initial doilies by finding a circular shape around the house. The pattern you use can be an ordinary drinking glass, a bowl, or something similar. After youve drawn the circle on the paper use the designing scissors to cut it out. Make sure that you cut inside the drawn circle or you will have pencil marks on your doilies. Create the design you want by using the punches. For most doily designs, the center area is solid, then the edges are lacy and punched. There are many different designs you can make by using and alternating various punches. Just changing the pattern of the punches slightly can give each doily a whole new look. Go around the perimeter of the doily with a particular punch or set of punches. Make the entire perimeter diamonds or alternate between diamonds and squares. Add as many different shapes as you want then repeat the pattern again and again. Start a new row, just inside the first circular row, and duplicate the original pattern or create a new pattern for each punched row. Its up to you how close you want the punched designs to be. Space them as you wish and mark the pattern with pen or pencil. Be sure that, once punched, the pencil or pen mark is punched out, too. Its easy to mark the spaces by using a smaller and smaller circular object inside the original one. The punches only allow you to go a few inches in when creating the doily designs. Smaller doilies, of course, allow the punches to go much further in than large doilies. The larger the doily, the fewer rounds of designs you can make. Create doilies for holidays, graduations, birthdays or everyday use. Theyre so much fun to make that youll love creating them for every special occasion. Get the kids involved and let them make their own creations. They can use them in their rooms for coasters or just for decor.
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