Beautiful/Decay has a great piece on paper cutting up. It features 9 artists: Bovey Lee, Peter Callesen, Chris Natrop, Georgia Russell, Hunter Stabler, Kako Ueda, Natasha Bowdoin, Emma Van Leest, and Andreas Kocks.
I so want to learn to paper cut like this some day:
Bovey Lee, "Atomic Jellyfish", 2007
It’s awesome! :)
And trees, I can never get enough of cuts with trees in them:
Emma Van Leest, "Bucolica II", 2009
Check out the article here: Part 1, 2, 3
(via Paper Forest)
Cindy posted a new scherenschnitte template on her blog and I gave it a try:
You can download the template to try out yourself here. :)
This is a fantastic stop-motion animation. I love all the paper cutting! It’s called “A Map Comes To Life” and was created by Andersen M Studio.
(via Paper Forest)
Worked on a few paper cuts this weekend. These are the latest free templates Cindy Ferguson has made available on her blog: Alice in Wonderland and Mermaid Anchor:
That’s that. Off to practice cutting out swirling lines more. You can try out these templates for yourself here: Alice, Mermaid
I love this! It’s a gorgeous video! It’s a stop motion short film, written and directed by Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths. Starring Alison Sudol from A Fine Frenzy. Music is “Sleepwalking” by A Fine Frenzy. There are a few paper cuts in this and they were done by Mr. Yen.
And like Cindy from Scherenschnitte, I’m now wondering if I can get away with that shade of red hair. :P
(via Scherenschnitte)
As I mentioned on Twitter, as soon as I saw the template Cindy posted today, I knew I’d have to try it out tonight. I made one rider into a girl by adding a ponytail. Think of them as twins heading into dinobattle. Heh. Now I have “Wonder Twins, activate” in my head. :P And, I couldn’t help but think of Dresden and good ol’ Sue when I was cutting these out. :D Weird night. What can I say?
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m starting to work my way through two papercraft books. I started with templates for frames and embellishments to add to pictures, scrapbooks, cards, gift bags and boxes. The templates are by Nicole Lombardo and the project is from Paper Cuts. Here’s a snapshot from the book via Nicole’s blog:
Pretty aren’t they? Mine aren’t as crisp as that. I need to work on steadying my hand more. And I guess she placed the template on the back of the black paper, while I used the front. Makes the design flipped horizontally from mine.
I also have to add that enlarging the templates with a copier is frustrating unless you get the template lined up just so. I suggest just scanning it. Then you can print it out at whatever size you want. Anyway, as I cut them out, I taped them to the wall. And I added a few pics in just to see how they would look:
Here are a few detail shots:
And one I did in blue oragami paper but didn’t tape to the wall yet…
And here’s a owl template that I cut out a while ago but never got around to posting about. The design is from from Cindy Ferguson’s blog and if you look at hers, you may notice that I lopped off one of the fruit on mine. Whoops. :P
That’s that. Off to practice more. :D
Woot! My freaking sinuses have cleared up enough that I can finally flip through my two new paper craft books. Yay! (Still don’t trust myself to pick up the exacto yet though. Vision still kinda wonky. I might cut off my thumb! Eek! :P)
I ordered Paper Cuts after seeing it on Cindy Ferguson’s blog. And really, ever since she posted the Alice tea party centerpiece, I’ve been itching to make it. Look how pretty it is:
Once I found out it was in this book…well you know how it goes, I had to have it! Mine! :D Inside you’ll also find templates for Alice place mats and cards. Plus, there are 5 other projects of Cindy’s inside. You’ll find squirrels in some of them, of course! :)
I’m also looking forward to the Barbara Buckingham‘s gate styled projects in here as well as Jennifer Khoshbin‘s vintage book projects. They are chock full of the awesomeness. :D
While browsing to buy Paper Cuts, I stumbled upon Home, Paper, Scissors. It looked fun and I got it thinking it would be inspiration with branching out into other styles of paper crafts. It’s filled with projects from Patricia Zapata, who blogs about her crafting on A Little Hut. There are a lot of amazing projects in here that I can’t wait to try out too. I’m really digging all of the tree styled projects. I think they’ll inspire some bigger versions of layered trees across my walls.
I’m planning on trying to make every project from both of these books. I’ll post about each project as I work my way through them. But, before I can begin, I’ve got some supplies to stock up on. Many of these projects need special paper and extra bobbles that I don’t have on hand.
Making my shopping list now… :D
Cindy posted a new template on her scherenschnitte blog, so I gave it a try. I cut it out three times for practice and added a hat to one of the cats. And of course I arranged them here in sort of a scene. :P
You can download the template to try yourself here.
Ooh, and check this out: Now Available! Paper Cuts: 35 Inventive Projects
I am so gonna have to make that alice project!
I messed up on this template last time by using paper that was too thick. I have thinner paper now so I thought I’d try again:
I made a lot of mistakes. The paper still seemed a little thick. I think I’m starting to like folded templates less and less because of that. :P I’ll have to try it again. And I have to laugh. In this video, Cindy talks about how it took her an hour to cut this one out.
One hour? Sheesh. Try hours for me. Hours! Luckily I had a few episodes of Chuck running while I worked on this. Although…now that I think about it, I wonder if watching TV is too much a distraction. Hmm. Well that’s just absurd! It can’t possible be a distraction. :P
If you want to give it a try, download the template. It’s fun.
