Some Rose Love Anyone?? 

The first red rose, Sent out of season
The second red rose, Sent for no reason
The third red rose, Sent for happiness and health
The fourth red rose, Sent for gaining life's wealth
The fifth red rose, Sent for gaining new friends
The sixth red rose, Sent for guiding you through life's bends
The seventh red rose, Sent for praying you never tire
The eighth red rose, Sent for giving you all of your desires
The ninth red rose, Sent for your happiness in love
The tenth red rose, Sent for hoping I'm your turtledove
The eleventh red rose, Sent for igniting passion and fire
The twelve red rose, Sent for hoping I'm your desire

- Barry A. Lanier

I feel flowers.... as love is in the air :)

The dew drops on the window glass... the serenity of the calm morning... the sweet fragrance of soil after an earth soaking rain.... greens, blues and pinks spread cross the wide sky with clouds touching the earth and red roses all over .. a picture perfect way to say I love you  to the person who means the world to you.

Roses were the perfect way to start my floral papercuts.

Cutting these has been the hardest till now but worth the effort.The fine lines and cuts tell the story of  how delicately these flowers spread their love. I hope this papercut crafted from my heart touches your heart as well.

As much as I love to cut these designs I also absolutely love to photograph the process...To see the design emerge is a totally different and exciting affair.

I mounted these on red and pink cad stocks. These Greeting cards are ready to spread some Rose Love :)



See you soon with more flower papercuts.

Keep coming back for more papercut love.

JAI SREE KRISHNA  

OLA # hello in Portuguese # paper lovers... Its 10:30 pm here in Brazil and 7:00 am in India right now. As my sleep has run off to Russia I guess here I am writing this post. This blog isn't suppose to be personal but still all my work is personal.....especially this paper cut of LORD KRISHNA. Though I haven't been into pooja paath, rituals or idol worship and have been away from temple worships for all these years, I have felt a spiritual connect to Krishna since childhood...not with the mythological stories but with the essence and power of his character.

I wanted to have a floating glass frame with a paper cutout of Krishna playing the flute... well the floating glass could not happen but the paper cut did... and not one but 2 designs :)  .

  

As I have mentioned before the design is drawn on the reverse side to get the perfect and clean final paper cut.

I left the face to be cut at the last as this was the most delicate part of the design.

 The 1st final paper cut in a frame.

This 1st design has more visual space to it. In the next one however I tried to do more intricate work.  

This design again has the same image of Krishna ( which I took from a calender poster) but has more elaborate and intricate design. I personally like the 1st one but beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

The second final paper cut.

HANDS ON COLOUR!!!

I have been working with white paper 120 gsm for all my paper cuts till now. so coloured paper has been on my mind for sometime now. As for the design and motif... well oriental and floral motifs fit the bill as I had blue, green and pink card stock in my hand.

These motifs were hand drawn freestyle and gave me immense scope to work with curves. Sharp edged designs are somewhat easy to cut while curves need to be cut more carefully so as to avoid pulling the already cut thin paper lines. Cutting small circles are the hardest but look really pretty with the entire design. 

I did a suggestive cut at the inner side of the card to make it interesting and establish the continuity.

Some more experiments

Hope my designs relate to the readers... please feel free to comment.

Papercut wall art coming up next.. stay tuned :)