Create A Papel Picado with ScanNCut

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If you're a last minute decorator, like me, I have a quick and easy project you can have ready in less than an hour! I have always loved papel picado.

Those beautiful brightly colored cut paper banners fluttering in the air.

If you’re not familiar with papel picado, it’s a form of Mexican folk art where tissue paper is cut into lacy banners using small chisels.

The term “papel picado” roughly translates to “pecked paper.” I knew that I wanted to use the same rectangle format as papel picado to create a pretty banner.

However, I wanted to create a more linear finished design that had a more modern feel. Cutting all those flags by hand seemed like it could be fun, but time consuming.

I wanted fast.

Remember, I'm a last minute kind of gal!

So, I designed a cut file for my ScanNCut machine. You can see it here in ScanNCutCanvas (Brother's free online editing program):

It was pretty easy to do.

I simply started with a rectangle and then added and subtracted bits as I needed.

Watch my video on Process Overlap (previously approved, link to brother youtube)to learn how to weld and subtract images. I used my ScanNCut machine to cut the pattern 5 times.

For ease of workflow, I used two mats and while one was cutting, I was cleaning and prepping the other mat (it takes about 6 minutes for each of these flags to cut).

After that I strung the paper cuts together on a piece of embroidery floss.

Then I hung my fabulous new banner in the window!

Even without color, that lacy paper looks so fantastic against the window:

I love it!

I think this banner looks awesome and says celebration! If you'd like to make your own, you can download the .fcm file for FREE, right HERE.

Talk to you next week!

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