Lighthouse papercut card

For my uncle's birthday I made a lighthouse papercut card. I backed the papecut with red paper which really highlights the details of the lighthouse.

I hope he likes it!

Royal Festival Hall papercut

Here's a papercut I did last year for my Uncle's birthday. The Royal Festival Hall has an iconic shape that makes it a great choice for a paper cut. I 'lit' the windows with some orange paper to help the building stand out (and because he really likes orange!).

Papercut wedding card 2

When I make cards to celebrate a wedding I like to try and incorporate some of the couple's wedding theme into my card. Steve and Chika had bunting on their wedding invite so I had to have bunting somewhere on the card! (Sorry about the picture but I was running late for the wedding!)

Papercut wedding card

One of my old school friends got married on Friday. I wanted to make them a wedding card that was unique to them so decided to try a papercut based on some designs I'd seen on Etsy. Wasn't exactly sure of their colour scheme but went for bright purple which turned out to be the same colour as the bridesmaid dress!

Wedding anniversay papercut

Last year I was a bridesmaid for a friend's wedding over in Canada. It was a great day and a beautiful wedding. It's just coming up to their 1st wedding anniversary and I wanted to make them a special present out of paper (the traditional 1st anniversary gift!). After downloading Inkscape for free I started playing around with some designs for a papercut. When I had the final design I reversed the image and printed it on to some nice white paper. I then started cutting out the design...

 After a few hours (and a severely dented finger from pressing too hard on the knife!) it turned out like this...

I managed to find some card the same colour as our bridesmaid's dresses. Although I haven't actually mounted it on to the card as I wasn't sure if the colour would go in their house!

The bride's brother had created their wedding stationery and designed 2 birds that featured on everything (including the cake!). I couldn't do a papercut without including them - in the end I put them everywhere! At their reception they had loads of Christmas trees so I put a few at the bottom of the heart.

It's in the post now on the way to Canada. Hopefully they'll both like it!

Butterfly papercut notebook

We're doing Secret Santa again at work this year. I had £1 left of my budget and couldn't find much under £2 in central London apart from this cheap notebook in Paperchase (although it was £1.50... I know, 50p over budget!). So I decided to cut a little butterfly to decorate the front and make it look pretty. I hope she likes it and doesn't guess too quickly who gave it to her.