Every year before the Chinese New Year’s Day, people would decorate their house with flowers, pot plants, paper cuttings, New Year door scrolls, red lanterns and New Year pictures, and the fu character 福 Chinese New Year paper cutting is an indispensable part. Here is a guide of how to make your own 福 (fu) Chinese New Year paper cutting.
1 Make sure your red paper is a perfect square-shaped by measuring it.
2. Fold it 3 times and crease the edge really well, following the steps below: so that we can make the decorative patterns on the four sides are the same.
3. Draw the decorative patterns on the folded paper (remember, the white part is to be cut of or carved off). Use the stapler to force the eight layers of paper to be together tightly.
4. Use your sharp scissors and cutter to cut off or to carve off the spare part and create the beautiful decorative patterns. And then open it after finished.
5. Rotate the paper to the right by 45-degree before you draw it, so it is looking like a diamond. Draw the outline of the fu 福 character in the middle.
6. Lastly color in the fu福 character in black, and your Chinese New Year paper cutting is done!
