Cut and Fold Shapes with Coloured Papers

Well this part I enjoyed doing on Christmas day - you might spot the gold Christmas wrapping paper that has sneaked into some of the squares! One piece of gold paper was a bit creased so I scrunched it up to give an interesting texture. It was quite fiddly cutting up tissue paper shapes but the card and paper was much more robust. The nice thing about tissue paper is that you can see the shape underneath so you get a third shape on display.

Cut and Fold Design Shapes in Black Paper

I really enjoyed this part of the chapter. I found it fascinating working out how best to cut the paper to get the desired shape. I particularly like the shapes shown on page 8 and would be curious to overlay this with the 'pin' image I commented on for Chapter One. In fact many of these would work well overlaid on each other. I used scissors for this activity but some of the cuts are not clean and so I will likely use a craft knife for the next part of the chapter.































Before I cut into the black paper I tried out a few shapes with plain white copier paper - three of these 'practice runs' have been mounted onto black card...