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For today, I did another papercut, this time of the letter “A” with some lovely flourishes. Design courtesy of another wonderful Dover book, this one of illustrated Art Nouveau letters. I’ve decided that I want to do a framed grouping of papercuts, and I needed a theme, so I think that I will do the entire alphabet. So, expect more letters (hopefully some more elaborate ones) later this month. The backing for this letter is temporary, because I only have a very limited supply of this color, but I do like the contrast of light on dark. I’m planning on using a bunch of random frames that I have left over, which I plan to use for this project, but they’re all different, so I’d like to keep the color palette of the letters the same. This letter also turned out a little larger relative to the frame than I intended, so I may switch it to a different frame (but I have plenty of those). Anyway, lemme know what ya’ll think!

Oh, and what happened to my Day 7 thing, you ask? Well, I didn’t make anything yesterday, but I did do something that I think counts….I got my hairs cut

(first haircut in over a year, I lost about 6-7 inches!)

Starting a second series, as I lost two days Feb 2 and 3 because of computer malfunction. I am going to try and do an Alphabet based on all the photograph clips  I have saved over the last 10 years

So, today’s scroll blank is a combination of a mosaic, knotwork, and the letter A. It looks more geometric than I planned, and I messed up some of the breaks I was planning, but it still looks kinda neat. First picture is with nasty flash, second picture is from a different angle so that the flash doesn’t suck so much.

Edit: I hate wysiwyg posts. >.<