I was asked how to make stairs in a layout. I have come up with a few ways to do this.

1. Fold a brown (or whatever color) strip of paper back and forth and gently attach it up the page so it looks like stairs up the page.

2. Take a paper the length of where you want it to go and then draw a straight line ever so often across it. Every half inch let’s say. Then shade in every other spot. The shaded spot will then look like the toe kick of the stair.

3. Paperpiece stairs- Cut darker and lighter paper in stips the size you want the stair to be. Cut the darker color a little shorter, this would be the toe kick area. Depending on your layout, start with a toe kick (darker strip) then place a lighter strip on top of it, make sure and overlap the lighter color so it looks like it is hanging over the darker color. Put another toe kick strip above the lighter color, but don’t overlap it at all, just let it touch. Then repeat with the lighter color overlapping on that one as well.

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