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922 Decorative Vector Ornaments: Papercut 009

Decorative Vector Ornaments: Paper cut 009

This is Day 9 of my mission adapting/cutting designs from the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book (as mentioned in this post.)

This one took nearly an hour to cut. I was using a fairly blunt scalpel blade, so I really should have changed it, but (1) I couldn’t be bothered, and (2) it feels a bit wasteful to change a blade every time I cut a new design.

decorative vector ornament papercutting 009 with pen for scale
Day 9 papercutting, with pen for scale

When I start tearing and stretching the paper I know that it’s really time to change the blade. So I guess the next piece will be cut with a new blade. (See if you can spot where I accidentally ripped this one):

decorative vector ornament 009 close up

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922 Decorative Vector Ornaments: Papercut 006

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Decorative Vector Ornaments: Paper cut 006

Day 6 in my adventure adapting/cutting all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book (as mentioned here).

This was a fairly big and detailed design so it took a few days to finish. Even though the lower lines have gone wiggly because the paper got a bit stretched, I still quite like it:

decorative vector ornament 006 with pen for scale

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922 Decorative Vector Ornaments: Papercut 003

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Decorative Vector Ornaments: Paper cut 003

This is Day 3 of my mission to adapt/cut all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book (as mentioned in this post).

This one had quite a few floating dots in the original design that I had to leave out of the papercutting, and other parts of the design needed to be joined together with little lines (otherwise they would have just fallen on the floor because they weren’t attached to anything). Also I needed to enlarge the designs a bit, because otherwise I don’t think it would have been possible for me to get all of the details.

I like the overall effect of this one, but I did mess up a few times. See if you can spot where!

decorative vector ornament 003

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Papercut 001

papercutting- Kay Vincent LaserSister

Paper cut 001

Seeing as I’ve decided to adapt/cut all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book (as mentioned in this post), I decided I might as well do at least a hundred of them. So let’s say that today is the first one:

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…which is a shame, really, because

  1. it was very small, so all of the errors show up,
  2. I was in a hurry
  3. I had a fairly blunt scalpel, so
  4. it doesn’t look very good!

Never mind – the whole point of this papercutting quest is that I learn and get better as I go along. I might try this one again one day, to see how the ‘before and after’ versions compare…

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Another Art Nouveau Style Papercut

Another Art Nouveau Style Papercutting

Continuing my recent papercutting project, this is my latest hand-cut piece, based on one of the designs from the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book.art nouveau style papercutting