Bargello Technique

What you need:

• Cardstock, different colors/light & dark
• Scissors or rotary blade cutter & cutting mat
• Double side tape or glue stick
• Regular tape
• Folded cardstock (card)
• Stamps of your choice (ornate, detailed & bold also)
• Inks different colors

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How to:

1. Decorate 4 sheets of cardstock as you would for making backgrounds.
2. Cut strips ½ inches wide horizontally *** NOTE: The can be different width if you like
3. After cutting strips, arrange the first ones by 2 and secure with tape on the back.
   (use tape Horizontally so they don’t come undone.
4. Keep doing this adding one at a time different color strips *** NOTE: Remember to
   arrange strips in horizontal way
5. After you are done with that, turn our strips the right way with the designs facing you.
   *** NOTE: You can cut all the strips, tape them, and then decorate them with stamps
6. Cut the strips vertically now with your rotary cutter blade or with scissors
   *** NOTE: After you cut them vertically, re-arraign them on an offset manner.
   *** NOTE: When you cut them vertically you will have one strip of square with
   different colors. That way the squares won’t match, that is the Bargello Technique
7. Arrange, as you like on folded cardstock to cover the front of your cards. Tape down
   with double side tape. *** NOTE: You can do this on a zigzag pattern. Remember that
   the squares should not match. You can also use a Wave Blade cutter or decorative scissors.
   You just have to match the design when arraigning the strips.