New Life Creations
Parchment Crafting
for
March, 1999

Fancy Fan

  As I was thinking about what I wanted to do for March I was very puzzled.  What would best be a spring idea.  Well I was coming up short <sigh>...  Then I started thinking about Easter and Passover and was still coming up blaank.  I let my mind day dream back to when I  was a child and how I love frilly dresses and the little kid gloves and white shoes and puffy peticoats... and how I loved to carry a frilly fan!  Then while watching a tv program yesterday I was amazed to see someone describing a rubber stamp she'd designed to make fans...   Well of course I knew I just had to adapt this idea to a pergamano project.    So after going through the archives of all the patterns I have here I discovered a part of a pattern that was perfect for what I want to do... so here it is!
   You will need to make 7-8 of these pieces to complete your fan.  And when it is completed it will be a workable fan!  So have fun!
Tracing:

1.   Trace all solid lines and the flower with white ink also around the small circles that are inbetween the 4 prong   areas.  Do not trace or emboss the two black circles at the  bottom of the blades. These black circles will be punched out with a paper punch in the end.

Painting:

1.  Mix 2 drops of white pintura to 1/2 drop of pintura blue.  Lightly pain this mixture to the 2 solid bars at the top of each blade.

Embossing:

1.  Emboss with fine embossing tool all line , flowers, and circles.
2.  Use large embossing tool to fill in circles and flowers.
3.  Use Large embossing tool to fill in the two bars at the top of the blades.

Dorsing:

1.  Using a light blue, purple or turquoise dorsing crayon  (or any of the available pastels you have) Dorse lightly the inner part of each blade.  This process can also use a blend of colors if you choose.

Perforations:

1.  Follow perforation grids  using the 4-prong tool on the inside of each blade.  Cut x's from these areas.
2.  Follow the perforation grid along the outside edge using the 2  prong tool and walk it alone the entire outer edge.
3.  Tear away each blade from paper to give a finished decoled edge.
 

Asseembly:

1.  Using a round standard or miniature decorative paper punch, punch out the three holes (larger blace dots) at the bottom of each blade.

2.  Use a ribbon, decorative cording  or tassle to secure all the blades together through the bottom hole.

3.  Spread the blades to create an open fan.  Match up the holes you punched so they over lap. Use a paper clip to hold the blades in place at the bottom.  Run ribbon through the  holes as if you were sewing on a sewing card... in one side and out through two and down through the next two.  When you reach the end reverse this process and return to your starting point.  You can glue down the ribbon or tie it securely.

3.  use a drop of glue (I used my glue gun) to keep each blade spread and in place.

4. Where all the blades come together at the bottom be sure that they all line up then punch a hole through all the blades.

5.  Use another piece of ribbon or a tassle to secure the bottom of the fan.

    note:  I used 7 blades to make my fan but you may want to use 8 blades.
  *note:   It helps to secure the beginning end of your ribbon with a piece of tape to the back so the ribbon doesn't
                slip while threading it.
 
 
 

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