Daily Paper Prompt #60: Cut Paper Typography {with Katie}
Sat, September 29, 2012 at 06:01AM DPP #60 was designed and delivered by the creative Katie Licht of White Picket Fence!
What a fun idea for today with endless possibilities.
Cut paper typography is a great way to add extra dimension and something totally unique to your pages. The methods and possibilities for this technique are endless!
You might want to start with a single word or short phrase, and keep it on the larger side. You can use scissors and just freehand the letters, or sketch the outlines first and then cut, either with a quality scissors or a good, sharp, x-acto blade. Capital letters in a simple style are the easiest, but as you get the hang of working with your scissors or x-acto, anything becomes possible! And as you can see here, I sometimes use a "cheater" method, by not cutting out the inside parts of the letter (see the R and A above), instead just drawing them in with pen. In addition to being a little quicker, I think it's also a quirky touch.
For paper, I typically use colored cardstock, kraft paper, or color photocopies of vintage fabric (all shown above); anything that's on the thicker side is easiest to work with. I also "recycle" a lot of my painting experiments into cut typography. Any extra scraps can be turned into cut letters; think about using paper you'd otherwise throw away, like bits of packaging or junk mail! You can even experiment with cutting the letters right OUT of your page so that the words are the negative space.
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Reader Comments (3)
LOVE!!!
This is one of the first DPPs that I've done on the day they were posted (within less than an hour, in fact!) I had doodled an art journal page, and decided it needed something. So, I journalled a phrase ('Live in the moment') on top of the doodle-background, using letters cut from patterned scrapbook papers and junk mail. I'm trying to teach myself to live by that as a mantra (long story, trying to learn to worry less), so it has made my page mean a lot. At first, you can barely read what it says, because it is patterns on top of clashing patterns, but I like that :) I am trying to establish my blog with lots of art journal pages, so hopefully it'll go on there soon. But first I have to settle into (and stop worrying about) my new life - my year abroad studying in Munich.
Apologies for the very long comment! Thank you, always for the tips and the never-ceasing inspiration! You blog has truly helped me change a little bit of my life :0 x
this was one of my very FAVORITE prompts, and such a fun idea to give pages an instant unique twist... AND use up all those tiny scraps! brilliant! thank you!
(oh yeah i saved this for last to send a little message to miss tammy!!!) ♥♥♥
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