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Free
Castle Paper Piecing Pattern for Scrapbooking |
When
you first walk down Main Street USA at Walt Disney World and see Cinderella's
Castle rising at the end of the street, you know that it is going to be a
special vacation. Like most children, mine love the Magic Kingdom. For our last
trip, I gave each of the girls their own scrapbook and their own disposable
camera. As a title page for their albums, we commissioned their Aunt Jennifer to
come up with a castle paper piecing pattern that would be reminiscent of the one
in their photos. The castle turned out so beautiful that Jennifer and I wanted
to share it with all of the About Scrapbooking readers.
To copy the pattern below simply right click on each page and select "save as" to save them to your computer. You will also want to save the Castle Piecing Guide below the pattern pages. Each pattern piece is labeled with a letter and the guide shows clearly where each piece fits in to the "puzzle."
When you print the pattern pieces, you can choose to make the finished piece any size that you desire for your layouts. The sample shown above is from one of my daughters' 6"x8" albums, therefore the castle is about 4 1/2"x5". The sample on the Piecing Guide below is large enough to fill an 8 1/2"x11" page. The most important thing to remember is that when you open each pattern page in your favorite word processing or picture publishing program, you need to make sure that you adjust them all to exactly the same size. As long as you make all four graphic sheets the same size before printing, the pieces will fit together when they are cut out and put together to create the completed castle.
Tips:
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The patterns have been reversed and sorted so that you can print the pieces directly on to the back of the appropriately colored cardstock or patterned paper.
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Running the 26 pieces of this pattern through your Xyron, makes assembly much easier.
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The windows for the castle can be cut free-hand and added or they can simply be hand drawn with a black pen. The sample above has hand drawn windows.
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Finish off the piece with black pen work outlining and some white pen work highlights on the windows.
Materials Used in Sample Page - Yellow colorblocked cardstock from PaperLoft, castle pattern, solid colors of cardstock source unknown, and title and year lettering from QuicKutz die cuts - Sonja letters and Marisa numbers.
Castle Pattern Page 1 - print on grey or light blue
Castle Pattern Page 2 - print on light grey
Castle Pattern Page 3 (optional windows) - print on dark grey or black -all windows can also be hand drawn with a black fine tip pen when the castle is completely assembled
Castle Pattern Page 4 - print on royal blue
Castle Pattern Guide - save to
use when assembling pattern pieces
To save patterns to your
computer, simply right click on each pattern page and select "save as." Patterns
are copyrighted by Jennifer Schmidt, used here with permission. Permission is
given for personal use in your own scrapbooks. To share this pattern with
others, you may give them the link to this web page where they may copy the
pattern for their own personal use.
