Things I have learned this Thanksgiving break:
- That I collect crafts like they are Pokemon
- How to cut paper, or scherenschnitte if we want to be fancy and foreign sounding
Story behind this: one of my aunts always asks for homemade presents for Christmas. This year she specifically requested some scherenschnitte art. So feeling bored with everything else I was doing with cross-stitch and decoupaging stamps, I went to the craft store and bought some paper, a cutting mat, and an X-acto knife without any idea of what I would actually do.
Fastforward through several google searches, I find this site with some papercutting templates of varying degrees of difficulty. Great! Awesome! I jump right into it with a Hunger Games pattern [link]. Relatively easy with all the straight lines. I finish it in a couple hours.
After admiring my handiwork, I am just itching to do more. I didn't screw up my first paper cuttings so obviously the next step is to move on to making my aunt's Christmas present. Sticking with simple typography still. I made the template in Google Drive/Docs. I chose Austin because she lives there and I'm thinking of pairing it with a photo of the city in a frame.
Long story short: I have a new addiction. I want to find more templates to use or create more of my own. But all that papercutting left my right index finger a little sore. So temporary break from scherenschnitte until inspiration strikes or my finger heals, whichever comes first.
