This is my first three-colour cut. It began with a photograph I took of the downtown skyline under cumulus clouds. The full process—from photo to final cut—took about ten hours.
Outlining the clouds in Photoshop took a while, so I like to say my head was in the clouds.
The clouds were cut from red cardstock. The city skyline was cut from black, with plain white cardstock used for the background.
This project began with a photograph of Monica Lee, taken by Judy Chee of Judy Chee Photography. The final piece was cut from black cardstock and mounted on red.
I also captured a few process shots: shadows cast through the cut, the piece lit from behind the mat, against a window, and partially peeled off the cutting mat.
Today’s project was inspired by my badminton lessons. The final piece was cut from white cardstock, mounted on red with a green border.
It started with a simple sketch, which I processed in Photoshop using Image Threshold and the Cutout filter to produce a black-and-white PNG file. That PNG was then imported into Inkscape and traced.
Next comes the manual cleanup: deleting tiny nodes, fixing object spacing, and reducing sharp angles to make the file cutter-friendly. The result is saved as a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG).
The SVG file is imported into Sure Cuts A Lot and sent to the die cutter, which cuts the design from white cardstock. The final cut is peeled off the mat and mounted on red cardstock with a green border.
After the first test cut, I updated the Inkscape SVG file to correct problem areas and improve the final result.
