A little while ago I tried my hand at papercutting.
My friend and fellow blogger Emma Daniels, who I've known since we were this big...
...is a very talented papercutter and she's recently started running workshops at Baker & Barista in Ipswich. She was holding her first craft workshop over the Christmas period and she wanted to try it out on a few friends first. So myself and a couple of others got together to have a papercutting lesson, complete with wine and snacks.
Emma started us with some simple designs that she had drawn; we started cutting along straight lines and then graduated to curved ones.
Eventually, when we'd got the hang of using the scalpel, we created our own designs for a Christmas bauble papercut. My incredibly unimaginative design included my two pets, Jack and Otis, in a cheesy festive motif.
It took me forever to cut, but it was a lot of fun.
Finally, I had my very own Christmas papercut.
I was pretty proud of it, but I don't think it really compares to any of Emma's work.
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| Papercuts by Emma Daniels |
Amazing, huh? I don't know how she has the patience.
The Christmas workshops at Baker & Barista went really well; in fact they were so popular that Valentine's Day and Mother's Day papercutting workshops have now been scheduled. If you're in the Ipswich area and want to create a unique papercut for a special someone then book yourself onto one of the craft evenings. There's also free cake, amazing incentive!
Check out more of Emma's work on her blog: www.made-by-ed.blogspot.co.uk
P.S. Apologies for the rubbish photos, they were taken with my rubbish phone.
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