cutting paper

I was thinking more about what I said last time about enjoying the little craft projects that I'm doing for Arena... I don't think I realized how much I missed the hands on- the feel of paper- even just punching or tearing out shapes of my papers- using my favorite purple handled exacto knife- making little origami pockets, or clasps for envelopes, or hearts- feels good. Think it may be getting time to do some real cut paper work again.

crafty stuff

Another fun project for a book packager finished and out of here- I get to be crafty and come up with cards, tags, wrapping papers and make them different by cutting, folding, tearing...Who knew I would love teabag folding? Or punching... It's mostly because I love designing the papers- the projects look amazingly different depending on the papers I use. I have to reign myself in because I tend to come up with ideas too complicated and time consuming for the average crafter to want to tackle. And because I love pattern I can make every thing much too busy. I throw in some very clean simple things every once in a while to give everyone a breather. I have now have a huge store of paper designs that I've got to do something with...
Here are a couple of images that may or may not have made it into the books, not sure.

There are other variations of this '2' card in another post I think.