Tutorial: Hexagons and Chevrons

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Hexagons:
Julie Ann created this awesome tutorial a few months back for creating hexagon embellishments from scraps...Hexagon Embellie Tutorial

Here is a free printabel of hexagon page accents, they can be used a journaling blocks, or an embellishment, or for use in an embellishment cluster...there are so many uses for these great Honeycomb Accents!




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Chevrons:
Do you have any old diagonal striped paper laying around???  If so, you are in luck!  You can use some of that old paper to create NEW chevron patterned paper!, the best part...it's super simple!!! 

Here's what you need...

• 2-identical pieces of 12x12 diagonal striped patterned paper (or 6x6 if you want to create 6x6 paper)
• paper trimmer
• 1 (or even 2) pieces of 12 x12 paper to use as a background (you will not see this paper, so you can use up some old, ugly paper that you have lying around---I'm pretty sure we all have some of that!)
• adhesive



Step 1: Lay the 2 sheets of diagonal paper side by side

Step 2: Turn ONE piece of the paper 90 degrees so the diagonal lines go the opposite direction. 
Step 3: Cut strips from both papers (see the crooked lines I tried to draw on my photo for placement). 
The strips must be cut in a width that divides into 12 inches evenly...1/2", 3/4", 1", 1.5", or 2" will all work.

Step 4:  Glue the strips from alternating pieces of paper to your "background  paper" to form a chevron pattern.
***You may find that the lines don't line up perfectly, I had to stagger them slightly to make them line up correctly, then I trimmed the excess off of the top and bottom of the paper, therefor my final piece of chevron paper is just shy of 12" tall.
***You will be able to create 2-12x12 pieces of chevron paper from  the 2 sheets of diagonal paper.

 

Another example of chevron paper, this was cut from diagonal paper with uneven stripes.