Heart in Hand Papercutting / Embossed Velvet Frame

Heart in Hand Papercutting / Embossed Velvet FrameThis artwork is handmade, hand cut, and hand woven using a variety of old papers. The background is an old French paper with shades of red and pink with purple handwriting. The hand is cut from aged, stained paper. The heart is from an old French graph paper that had a few stamps attached. I used a vintage embossed paper from a Christmas card for the cuff. Antique velvet frames are getting harder to find at affordable prices. This one is elaborately

” (The thimble on the index finger is an embossed metallic paper from a 1930s envelope lining

Our house is built on an old 1930s home place property

I spy a few of their fabrics in there

Colors: lilac

over there a clam shell

These lilac note cards are printed from my original still life paintings

with softly rounded corners and a clean

That’s a lot of cutting and sewing

illustrative look

It will be glued on

but it is a bit heavy

with a pierced design on the side