Especially for Woman’s Day, Yana Kuznetsova, a Samara craftswoman and head of the cozy decor workshop “Carry_raznye_shchitsy”, showed how to make a magical city out of a simple Whatman paper.
You will need: a piece of Whatman paper, scissors, a stationery knife, a pencil, glue and 20-30 minutes of free time. Take kids as helpers – they will love it!
Cut the drawing paper into three roughly equal pieces along the long side. For convenience, mark the cut line beforehand. Bend each resulting strip in three arbitrary places in the form of an accordion. It is desirable that the folds of the three parts are at slightly different distances.
Outline the general silhouette of the future city and cut it out with scissors. It will be more interesting if there are houses in the foreground, and mountains or trees of a slightly higher height in the background. Make two stripes with houses different in silhouette. Be sure to leave a solid (not cut) strip 3-4 centimeters high at the bottom for stability. Use a utility knife to cut out the silhouette of the town. Try to include as many details as possible, such as windows, sash windows, opening sash windows (cut three sides instead of four), doors, trees, animals, street lights, chimneys, fence, etc.
Place all three details on the bottom edge, for example, on a windowsill, put a garland between them. For additional stability, you can glue “legs” to each section between the folds: two short strips, bent in half, glued on both sides of the part.
Technical Tips:
- Use an old magazine / stack of paper, a cutting board, or a special rubber mat for the backing when cutting through.
- Involve the child in participation: ask to draw a town, fill it with details.
- For a clean finish, use a simple pencil so you can erase it. Or cut clean, that is, without a preliminary drawing. If you are making a decor with a child, then make a preliminary drawing on ordinary office paper, docked or glued on the short sides, then, putting the paper with a drawing on a drawing paper without a drawing, cut through both layers at once.
- Use the decor as an Advent calendar, complementing the boxes with surprises and numbers of the month.