A Wedding Commission

Here's a commission I did recently for someone who needed a gift for an upcoming wedding. The only personalization is the names of the bride and groom and the wedding date. For the rest, I was told to just come up with something. A summer wedding? Why not flowers in a heart shape!






The finished product, in its floating frame:


If you would like to order a commission, please email papercutsbykatie@gmail.com or send me a message using the link to the right.

A 20 Minute Engagement Card

A few months ago my boyfriend and I drove to Dallas for our friend's engagement party. Derek asked me to make them a card, and since we originally planned to leave on Saturday I expected to have all Friday to make it. Well, Friday morning Derek decides we're leaving by noon. This gave me about 2 hours to do laundry, pack, take care of the pups, and make a card. Somehow, I pulled this one off in about 20 minutes. Just in time for an 8 hour road trip to an Indian engagement party!




Since Indian weddings are full of bright, fun colors, I decided to back this one on a bright, fun color!

A First Papercut

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So this post shows my first real papercut card. I had done a couple of small ones before this, but those were more like testing the waters. This is the first one that I really put effort in to, and actually gave to someone.

I made this card for my cousin Jeff's wedding. I wish I could take credit for the adorable design, but it's a copy of a design by papercut artist Rob Ryan.

Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the card after I had backed the papercut, so the design doesn't quite stand out and looks a little rough in this picture. I ended up backing it with silver tissue paper to add to the whole wedding effect. I also learned from this that papercuts look best when the picture is not so up close!

You can see, though, that there are some rough lines in there. It's actually intentional. Well I mean, I don't think I could get them too much cleaner if I tried, but I also wouldn't want to. A lot of papercut artists will make one design by hand and then laser cut a bunch from those. That results in very clean lines. Personally, I like being able to see that it was hand cut, and I while I try to make my papercuts as clean as possible, I'm glad for the imperfections.