Khatam Collage Paper Art {Tutorial}
A collage artwork is formed where an assemblage of different things are bound together, making a new whole. The word comes from French word coller, “to glue.”
We used a square punch and left over paper to make a khatam collage wall art with fall colors to welcome the new season. A khatam (Arabic: خاتم) is the Arabic word for 8 point star.
I buy a lot of paper to create my handmade cards. Sometimes I buy a set because of a few pieces of paper I like, but have a lot of left over paper I can’t use. For example, I fell in love with this glitter paper set, but it included fairies on one page that I don’t need.
Rather then throw away the paper, my daughter spent an afternoon punching out glitter squares to make art.
Supplies
Decorative card stock
Square card stock (2)
Scissors
Square punch
Double sided tape
My daughter punched out all the orange and yellow glittered paper from the fairy page. She then decided to add from another more purple page to layer a contrast color.
To create the khatam shape, my daughter took two square pieces of paper and glued them to each other, offsetting the edges to make 8 points.
Once the star was made, the punched out squares were added with the double sided tape.
After all the squares were taped down, she flipped over the star and cut off all the pieces of paper that were hanging over.
She kept flipping it over to make sure the edges were clean, trimming off anything hanging over.
Now our artwork was done. I helped her cut out a piece of blue mat board and then we taped it on but you can just add it inside any frame.
If you enjoyed making this khatam art, please visit Khatam bead coin dish and Khatam gift tag. Or stop by A Crafty Arab on Pinterest to see more tutorials from the Arab world. Don’t forget to Pin this to come back to it later:
