Friday, December 19, 2014

Paper Cutting

Hi!

About a month ago I took a paper cutting workshop from Bmore Papercuts.  It was so much fun and ever since then I've been wanting to try more!  For my birthday I got a set of x-acto knives and a cutting mat, so that was perfect!



The other day I cut up some kraft card stock into 4x6 cards and decided to just start cutting.  I had found some cute (short!) quotes on Pinterest so I tried using what I had learned at the workshop to cut some cute stuff!  And I did!

I can't post pictures of most of them yet, but here's one I did with some lyrics from a Sondre Lerche song that I love called Modern Nature :)



I practiced doing negative and positive space with the lettering.  Writing backwards is a little hard but I got pretty good at it since I did so many that day :)

Here's one that I made for Alex for Christmas!  Don't worry, I already gave it to him!



I need to get a frame for it and put some colored paper behind it, and we'll be good to go!

I had so much fun and I'm getting lots of ideas of things I want to try.  When I went to the Last Stop Hops-n-Shop show the other night, I looked closely at Annie's papercuts (from Bmore Papercuts) that were for sale to get some ideas, too!  She does such small details and all of her cuts look so smooth!  I need to practice a ton!

Thanks for reading!

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