A Study in Paper #7: Холмс и Ватсон

[ldhenson]

So aeroferret continued to feed my crafting addiction by giving me a shiny new craft knife ♥ Well, of course I had to put it to good use.

A paper-cutting for the Russian Sherlock Holmes series.


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Despite being a fairly straightforward design, this one took an entire week to finish (by contrast, I did #6 in a single evening). The tricky bit wasn't the actual cutting process--which, granted, still took a long time--but rather the planning, pulling all the elements together while still keeping the central portrait of Holmes and Watson clean and simple. Sometimes things just take a while to coalesce.





But I'm very happy with the final result.

Plus it's a nice complement to my Russian!SH pendant :-)





And one more pic, in different lighting:





Cut from cardstock. A little over 6.5" x 10.25", before folding.


X-posted to cox_and_co (here), craftgrrl (here), geekcrafts (here), my dA, 221b_bakerst (here)

Comments

[fullofowls.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful! I wish I had such skill.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Thanks muchly!

Your icon's so cute...are those flying foxes?

[fullofowls.livejournal.com]

They were described as bats, but they may well be flying foxes, I don't know. copperbadge made this icon. When I told him how much everybody keeps complimenting me on it, he said they were ADORABATS. :D

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Adorabats indeed! I love bats and the first plush ever I made was a tiny plush bat who sometimes hangs from my lampshade :-)