A fun scrap-paper embellishment that’s quick and old-school cool.
You’ll need some scrap paper in yellow, red-orange, silver, and tan. I used a paper crimper, decorative-edge scissors, and a corner rounder. You could substitute a score board for the paper crimper, and regular scissors for the decorative-edge scissors and corner rounder.
Cut the scrap paper into strips of the same width. Mine were 1/2” wide. Trim one end of the yellow strip with decorative-edge scissors, then attach a tan scrap at that end and a red-orange scrap at the other. Run the silver scrap through the paper crimper, then trim to a small piece and use it to cover the join between yellow and red-orange. Trim the tan end into a point, and color the point black. Ink the edge with darker yellow ink to suggest a round shape.
Short (<3 minutes) process video:
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