Saturday, April 10, 2010

papel picado



i conquered the save the dates over my spring break. i first tried to just draw it and then scan it into photoshop, but it wasn't working out so well, so I ended up actually whippin out the old xacto knife and cutting it out of paper by hand. Tedious but satisfying. Then i scanned them in and David helped choose the color. Voila!

p.s. I will try and photograph the hand cut one i think it's actually really beautiful

3 comments:

  1. This is fantastic! I love that you hand cut it.
    Best wishes!

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  2. this is absolutely beautifuL!!! impressive.

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  3. This is awesome! I'm recently obsessed with papel picado and am also determined to figure out how to make it work! I love your idea of scanning it!

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