We have had a lovely Spring weekend here in the Pacific North West. But for those of you that are still longing for Spring we wanted to create an indoor garden to bring the outside in. This lovely paper cut garden is on display inside a terrarium in my reading nook. To create the garden we used 4 different shades of green and taupe papers. For ours we chose Botanic, Fairway, Gumdrop and a kraft color. We cut ours on a personal cutting machine but as always I have included the PDF file for those who plan to cut by hand. You can find both files on my blog by clicking here. Once your designs are cut, simply bring the edges of each paper around to meet and use a spot of glue to secure at the back. Pop them inside one another in size order and your papercut garden scene is done! You will find score lines on the larger leaves and then gently curl the tall dark grasses with your fingers. Feel free to play around with the paper once it’s cut – you can achieve lots of lovely depth and dimension to this scene by gently manipulating various parts with your fingers or the blunt edge of your scissors. Enjoy and Happy Spring! ~ Lia
Materials used for Paper Garden:
- Curious Metallic (If Curious Metallic is not available, please check out “Metallic Paper” or “Shop Color“)
- Botanic text paper
- Stardream Metallic
- Fairway text paper
- Poptone
- Gumdrop text paper
Love your art.