Paper cut practice

I thought I would practice my paper cutting technique at home over the weekend so I decided to make a christmas card because I needed to make some anyway so thought I might as well practice something that I need to whilst not having the pressure of it being for this project. It went really well and I feel more confident about this process for my book cover, my technique is not perfect yet but its really progressing. Now I will start work on the actual paper cutting for the book cover. Here is the cars that I made, I designed it digitally using my drawing tablet then printed it and cut it out of red paper. I then scanned it back into the computer so it would be easier to re produce onto cards.

Paper cut practice: christmas card

As I am going to attempt paper cutting for my book cover I decided to do some practice so I chose to attempt to make a christmas card as I wanted to anyway. I decided to do a design with a woman wrapped up an a scarf holding some hot chocolate as that feels pretty festive to me. I have not finished the full card yet but I have constructed the main part of the woman, I just need to glue her down. It took about two hours because it is the first time I have really attempted this and it took a few tries. Overall I am really pleased with it so far, I will continue to work on it tomorrow and will hopefully get it finished soon in time for christmas.  Here is what I have done so far.