Sugar skulls masks

In-between some other projects, I made a couple of sugar skull masks recently, just for fun.  I did them really quickly, so the finish isn’t perfect, but they were good to play around with.

Wedding Papercut commission

Wedding Papercut Commission detail

Bride and Groom silhouette

Wedding Papercut commission

A recently finished papercut commission for an autumn wedding.  The forest is made up of four separate layers, cut from Fabriano eco paper, and finished with cotton white broderie paper at the back.  The banner is fixed to the little birds with copper wire coiled flat.

Bury Art Museum Christmas Craft Fair

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I’ve been super busy of late making stock for Bury Art Museum’s craft fair on Saturday 1st December.  I’ll be selling (mostly Christmassy!) cards and some papercuts. I also have some cards and papercuts in the Museum’s art shop now, … Continue reading →

How difficult can framing be…?

For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to find frames that would allow me to “float” a papercut image between two pieces of glass, ideally free-standing, and be completely clear so the image would create a shadow.  This hasn’t been nearly as straightforward as I expected and there can’t be a float frame/magnetic frame/double-sided frame I haven’t looked at.  They seem to be really easy to find in the US, but not here.

Anyway, I eventually set aside the idea of freestanding for the time being, and tried out a large frame just for wall hanging.  These are intended for A3 size images and I simply bought two, used the perspex “glass” from both, and sandwiched the papercut between them, holding it secure with a couple of little removable sticky dots on the back.  I’m looking into custom-made options, but I’ll be selling the papercuts unframed as well, so I figured it’d be good to show how ready-made frames would work too.
Here’s how my Birdkeeper and Hildegard papercuts look:-

 

 

Charmed Exhibition

I’m in an exhibition! I’m soooo very excited my Hildegard papercuts have been selected for Charmed, a Unicorn-centric exhibition, curated by Spike Dennis.  Prints of Hildegards 1 & 2 are now on display alongside fellow unicorns at the Print Market Project as a part of the 2012 Cardiff Design Festival.