What is paper piercing?

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Paper Piercing Paper piercing is a technique used in Scrapbooking. The basic tenet to the technique is this: create a pattern on a piece of paper or cardstock with pierced holes through the paper. The pattern can be created either by laying a template or an image copy over the paper and piercing the pattern through the template, or by freehand creating the image or words on the paper. The piercing can be performed by a long needle or a special piercing tool sold at scrapbooking stores. Once the piercing has been completed, you can ink or chalk around it to give the image or word or letter dimension. This technique can be used to create images, words, letters, or any other design to use as an accent or background for a scrapbook page or greeting card. Paper Piecing Paper piecing is a technique used in scrapbooking to create images or accents to custom fit your scrapbook page. The technique involves cutting a pattern of an image (such as a cartoon character) out of various pieces of patterned paper and cardstock, then putting them together to form the image. For example, a paper piecing of Garfield might have his body parts cut out of an orange fuzzy paper and his night shirt cut out of patterned paper, and once it's pieced together properly and detailed with markers, pens and chalk it will appear as Garfield. Often paper piecing patterns are images cut out of coloring book pages, but it can involve any number of templates or even freestyle cutting.