This is from an ongoing papercutting project that I’ve been doing for the last couple of years, trying to work my way through all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books. But for the 2020 Covid19 Lockdown, I’ve turned it into a ‘100 cuts in 100 days’ project…
Today’s design is number #539 in the book.
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This is from an ongoing papercutting project that I’ve been doing. (Basically I’m trying to work my way through all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books.) The book only has numbers next to the designs and doesn’t have names or titles for them, so I usually call them whatever they look like. Hence “Tall Fruit Basket”…
Although I think a tall fruit basket would actually be rather impractical in real life (What are those fruits? How the heck do you reach the fruit at the bottom? How do you clean it if a kiwi fruit goes all mushy? If it’s not hollow all the way down to the bottom, then why does it need to be such a tall plinth to just hold fruit? If you did stretch your hand down to the bottom and grab a big grapefruit, is the middle section too narrow to let you pull the grapefruit back up? etc…), I like the overall lines of the design.
But I’m guessing I won’t be using the design again in a hurry.
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This is from an ongoing papercutting project that I’ve been doing. (Basically I’m trying to work my way through all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books.)
Today’s design is number #505 in the book. As I’ve mentioned before in this project, the designs in the book don’t have names, so I’ve had to come up with my own descriptions. No prizes for guessing why this one is called “Branch Silhouette”.
I quite like this one, and I’m not even sure why, because the flowers and leaves aren’t that pretty. Maybe it’s just the branch itself that I actually like.
And I also managed to cut it out fairly accurately. There were lots of very thin lines that needed to be cut out, and they turned out OK.
If I ever do come up with a series of fairytale-based papercuts, I think this design will be a candidate for including within the design.
I was still listening to The Grand Sophy audiobook when I did this papercutting. I must read more (or listen to more) of Georgette Heyer’s books.
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Day 14 of my accelerated papercutting project, where I’m trying to adapt and cut 100 designs in 100 days. Today’s cute ‘mini flower’ papercut design is number 517 in the 922 Decorative Vector Ornaments book.
As opposed to yesterday’s design, I like this one. It’s a tiny little flower and I really like the design, and I also managed to cut it out fairly well.
I should definitely be able to use this design in some other project. In fact I look forward to it!
While I cut it I was listening to the Audible book version of Georgette Heyer’s The Grand Sophy. I LOVED it.
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This “Berries and Leaf” tiny papercut is from an ongoing project I’ve been doing (working my way through all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books.)
Hmmm. This is one of my least favourite designs. The leaf is OK, I guess, but I don’t like the branch, and I definitely don’t like the berries.
Oh well, at least it didn’t take long to cut. And I can always make changes to the design to make it more appealing to me.
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This “Crocodile Flower” is from an ongoing papercutting project that I’ve been doing. (Basically I’m trying to work my way through all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books.)
I couldn’t think of anything else to call it. (Hopefully I’m not the only person in the world who sees it like that?!)
It was quick and fun to cut this one, and I’m really pleased with how it came out.
I don’t know if I’ll have much use for a scary flower in any of my ‘real’ projects, but at least I enjoyed cutting it out at the time.
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“Leafy Sprig” papercut is from an extended papercutting project that I’ve been doing. Basically I’m trying to work my way through all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books, but at the moment I’ve accelerated the process by trying to adapt/cut 100 designs in 100 days.
Today’s design is number #508 in the book.
Funny how the really tiny ones look so chunky and lumpy when they’re magnified. Never mind – to the naked eye this one looks fine.
I don’t know where the designs come from in the book, but I suspect that this particular design comes from the same original reference source that the recent Bouquet design came from. They are very similar:
Now that I think about it, with the Bouquet design I was considering combining it with other similar-looking motifs to make a bigger design. This “Leafy Sprig” design would be perfect for that.
Again, it would go quite nicely in a Mother’s Day or birthday card, with the design done as a filigree papercutting, plus a personalised calligraphy message.
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This “Bouquet” papercutting is yet another design from the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books.
It continues the papercutting project that I’ve been doing. (Basically I’m trying to work my way through all of the designs in the book, but at the moment I’ve got the added challenge of trying to adapt/cut 100 designs in 100 days.)
This week’s design is number #506 in the book.
This was yet another really enjoyable papercut because of the challenge/difficulty element, combined with the overall look and the small size. It took just less than an hour to cut, and involved lots of tiny tiny shapes and curves. There’s one particular line that jumps out at me as being a bit wiggly wobbly, but I actually don’t mind it.
And because it’s another Art Nouveau-type design, that just immediately appeals to me anyway.
I can see this design being useful just by itself, for a Mother’s Day or birthday card, with its cute little bouquet of flowers and leaves. Or on a more ambitious scale, being joined by other similar designs so that they all form a great big filigree card full of flowers and leaves.
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This “Roses” design is from the continuing papercutting project, where I’m trying to work my way through all of the designs in the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book by Dover Books.)
Today’s design is number #509 in the book.
I really enjoyed adapting and cutting this design. Because I used a new scalpel blade and was paying attention, I think it turned out quite well. I especially liked cutting the little veins in the leaves. I’m not quite as keen on the design of the actual flowers themselves, but I still liked adapting and cutting them.
I’m definitely planning on using this design motif in a future project. I can see them as the border for a bigger design, maybe. Ooh, or it could be part of a “Beauty and the Beast” design that I’ve been thinking about creating. (One of these days I’d like to create a series of papercutting designs based on fairytales.)
I can’t even remember what I was watching or listening to while I cut this one, I was so engrossed in it. I was probably listening to a writing-related podcast.
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I’ve called today’s project “Berries and Leaves” papercut, for obvious reasons. It’s Day 6 of my Lockdown Project (which is a continuation of the ongoing papercutting project that I’ve been doing, for the last couple of years), but day 27(ish) of the actual UK lockdown.
The “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book doesn’t have titles for any of the designs (which is why I’ve come up with my own names for them) but in the book it’s number #511:
This was a really challenging piece to cut. The tiny berries were particularly difficult, because they were too small to cut with scissors, but cutting curves with a scalpel was tricky:
This design ticks a lot of boxes for me – I like the Art Nouveau style and the mostly-symmetrical pattern, and the overall difficulty/challenge level of the cutting itself. I can definitely see myself using it in a ‘real’ project one day – even if it’s just part of a birthday card.
I was watching The Tick on Amazon Prime while I cut this one out. Why did they only make two seasons? Whyyyyyy? It was funny and clever, and watching it made a good antidote to the Coronavirus weirdness out in the ‘real’ world. Oh well, when everyone else runs out of stuff to watch on Netflix and Amazon maybe they’ll give the Tick a try and realise how good it was.
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