This piece began as a hand-cut design, which I later turned into a die cut. I added an outer circle and repaired a few cropped sections from the original.
It's cut from white cardstock and mounted on green. I’ve also included photos of the original hand-cut version.
The design was inspired by a book of paper cuts by Hans Christian Andersen.
This design is based on an image recently released by the British Library under an open Creative Commons license. It took me about four hours to produce this cut from the original illustration.
The piece is cut from black cardstock and mounted on azure. I've included the source image below for comparison.
This cut was created from an image recently released into the public domain by the British Library. It’s cut from black cardstock and mounted on yellow.
The original image comes from page 104 of Ode for the Sophomore Supper of the Class of 1854 and can be viewed on http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11061913133
Image taken from page 104 of 'Ode for the Sophomore supper of the Class of 1854'
