How to Trace Patterns for Tin Christmas Ornaments

Video Transcript

"Hello, this is Marie French for Expert Village. Now we are going to work on tracing our design. I found a beautiful design in a magazine and here I am going to trace this butterfly because I think it would be a beautiful ornament, OK. So, what I have done is I've picked out the picture and I just used scrap paper and I'll make it a smaller size because of course, my ornament is very small. So I cut the smaller size, I take a nice sharpie and then I either trace and or draw the design that I want to have on the tin ornament. So I am copying the design of the butterfly, actually free handing it, and it will be ready to punch. So, I'll take this design real quick, put it over the circle just like this and then feel around the circle with a piece of paper so I know actually where this design is going to fall. And, if I have to make adjustments I can always use the back. And here I am going to adjust because I've gone a little bit wider than my circle and I'm going to go take it back and I'm going to retrace that design into the circle that I have so that it is of equadistance and that it fits within the design I have planned for this ornament. And then I will do some free punching as we go. And now we are ready to go ahead and punch our tin."