another papercut

This was cut for a birthday girl a bit back. She finally received it, so I feel safe showing it now. I'm pretty happy with it and thrilled with the frame, which is over the top, but in the best way.

The papercut was drawn by me, but is so derivative of papercuts in this amazing scherenschnitte book, I can hardly take credit for it. It was crazy fun to cut. There were some details that were just too small and got accidentally loped off, but oh well, not a leg or anything like that. This is a 8" x 10" frame, to give you a sense of scale.

I am planning to design another set of papercut patterns to cut (similar to mailorder #8) pretty soon. I'm thinking of 4-5 designs in the set, a few easy and a few sort of hard—because it's not fun unless there's a little blood, right?