{ Sneaky Peek } - to see her is to love her......
I've got a bit further with this cut now, and I can't wait to see it finished!
{ Sneaky Peek } A Diamond Anniversary card
I was commissioned to make a paper cut card for a very special couple celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary, 60 years, something to truly be celebrated.
Where to start with a commission, the awful prospect of a blank sheet of paper!
The commissioner had seen my work before and liked the idea of having two birds, a heart and leaves, so to the scribbles.
I start with a few thumbnail sketches to get the idea fixed on paper, to try out a few of ideas, get the major components in the right places and the overall proportion and composition "right"!
At this point I tend to walk away and let the ideas circle through my sub conscious and thought for the rest of the day. Somehow this "sets" the idea of how I should cut the piece and I can develop the design a bit further.
And then BINGO! It all clicks into place and the design flows from the pencil onto the paper.
A bit of time and patience and here it is, all cut out.
I backed the paper cut with a lovely matt gold paper which gave the card a lovely glow and I'm told the special couple were delighted with their card.
{ Sneaky Peek Thursday } Possibility
This post has been a while in the making. In fact so long that it's morphed from a { Sneaky Peek } into more of a TA DA grand unveiling!
So here is Possibility, the latest heartfelt moment to be captured and celebrated.
A crossroads in life. Endless decisions, countless outcomes and oh the possibilities, the boundless possibilities.
Where will decisions made or unmade take you next? What opportunities lie over the hill, around the corner?
The most important decision to take? Live life, dwell in possibility.
As always, I was inspired by a fantastic piece of poetry. This time by Emily Dickinson's,
a brilliantly, inspiring place to live.
Thumbnail scribbles, working out the general layout and form of the design.
Various "life size" sketches, looking at different ideas and combinations of flowers and leaves.
Voila, all finished and painted!
{ Sneaky Peek Thursday } Top secret project "A"
I don't want to give too much away about this super, top secret papercut, so the photo shows the design back to front and the wrong way up!
I've done a design similar to this as a commission but this one will be available as a screen print, and possibly making some other items super special and pretty!
I'm hoping to have the prints ready to launch at
on the 29th/30th June so watch this space!
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{ Sneaky Peek Thursday } My home
Inspired by the fabulous Cupcakes for Clara and her
posts.
A sketch, photo, or work in progress. A little glimpse into the way we work or what we're working on. Keeping creative and sharing the goodness.
This week I thought I'd share some photos of a new screen print, My home, that I've been working on.
The design starts life as a papercut. As always hand drawn and then cut by my own fair hand.....and my scalpel! I then use the papercut image to expose a screen. This means that the image fixed on the screen is an exact copy of the papercut design.
Here's a very rough test print to see how the colours look, dusty dark blue on a plaster background. I've recently started to produce two colour screen prints, with a solid block of background colour and then the design in another colour and I've been really pleased with the results!
And here's the finished article, available to buy
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{ Sneaky Peek Thursday } All Will Be Well
Inspired by the fabulous Cupcakes for Clara and her
posts.
A sketch, photo, or work in progress. A little glimpse into the way we work or what we're working on. Keeping creative and sharing the goodness.
A sneaky peek into my sketch book at the very beginings of a new design........I'll keep you posted on this one.....it could end up somewhere VERY exciting.......or not!
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Sneaky peek Thursday - LOVE papercut
I though I would share a slightly un-sneaky peek with you all! I've dug through my photos and flicked through my sketch book to share the story and scribbley sketches of the development of my LOVE papercut.
I have been mentally playing about, for a few months, with the idea of doing a paper cut with the infinity symbol and the word love and I'd done a couple of scribbles ages ago. But I felt they weren't really "me" and had left the idea looming in my sketch book.
While idly wasting time, ehhm I mean "researching" on Pinterest I can across a tattoo of the word love formed into an, almost, heart shape and whirr, whirr, click, click the wheels began turning again.
Would this make a better basis for the LOVE cut? Could I make it "me" enough?
I sometimes worry that my sketch book is like the inner working of my mind.....and when you look at this page there are at least four ideas I'm working on....at once!
Almost there, not completely convinced about the flowers and leaves on the bottom of the "heart" shape.........
A few more sketches later and BINGO! It's LOVE, it's "me"!
Here it is, all framed up!
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I've had such an UNBELIEVABLE resoponse to this wee papercut that I'm going to give all you wonderful, fabulous, followers, likeres, fans and friends a special Valentines treat! (exciting isn't it!)
Until and including 1st Feb, I'm going to give anyone in the UK FREE postage on this papercut, just enter the coupon code UKLOVE12 on my
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Now I KNOW lots of you fantastic lot are based overseas and I don't want you to miss out on the treat.......but (there always is isn't there?!) to post the papercut framed overseas costs a small fortune sooo I will post it to ya FREE but unframed just enter the coupon code LOVE13 on my
to get a 20% discount.