Project description
We are finishing the living room and I want to stop cutting paper snowflakes with kitchen scissors once a year. I am looking for a paper-cutting artist to draw and cut six openwork panels, two per window, so that each pair of sashes reads as one composition rather than two unrelated sheets. The motifs should stay general and quiet: birds on branches, bare winter trees, snowflakes, leafy scrollwork. No cartoon characters and no recognisable figures from books — I want the windows to look hand-made, not licensed.
Two of the windows should be strictly symmetrical, the third one deliberately off-centre, with the visual weight shifted to the left sash. Please work in heavy white paper that holds its shape and does not sag once the radiator warms up. The bridges between the cut shapes should be thin enough to read as lace, yet strong enough to survive being smoothed onto cold glass: I put panels up with a weak soap solution and hold the corners with masking tape. No superglue and no double-sided tape — both leave marks on the glass and on the painted frame that take days to scrub off.
On top of the window work I need two smaller panels mounted in frames with a dark backing board, so the white cut-out reads from across the room, and two seasonal sets, winter and spring, so that in March I simply swap the sheets. Send sketches for approval before the blade touches paper: once a panel is cut, there is nothing left to correct.
What I need delivered:
— six window panels: two symmetrical sets for two windows, one asymmetrical set for the third;
— two framed panels on a dark backing, sized to standard frames;
— winter and spring motif sets: birds, branches, snowflakes, plant ornament;
— heavy white paper, thin but survivable bridges, clean cut edges without fuzz;
— digital sketches for approval, with corrections agreed before cutting;
— packing: every panel between two sheets of cardboard, interleaved with tissue;
— a short care note with two warnings I want written down: paper burns, so a panel must never hang tight against a light string, a lamp or a candle, and paper decor warps fast in a damp kitchen, so these are for dry rooms only.
Budget is around 520 USD for the whole set, twelve days feels reasonable. Tell me what paper weight you prefer and show a close-up of your thinnest bridges.
Two of the windows should be strictly symmetrical, the third one deliberately off-centre, with the visual weight shifted to the left sash. Please work in heavy white paper that holds its shape and does not sag once the radiator warms up. The bridges between the cut shapes should be thin enough to read as lace, yet strong enough to survive being smoothed onto cold glass: I put panels up with a weak soap solution and hold the corners with masking tape. No superglue and no double-sided tape — both leave marks on the glass and on the painted frame that take days to scrub off.
On top of the window work I need two smaller panels mounted in frames with a dark backing board, so the white cut-out reads from across the room, and two seasonal sets, winter and spring, so that in March I simply swap the sheets. Send sketches for approval before the blade touches paper: once a panel is cut, there is nothing left to correct.
What I need delivered:
— six window panels: two symmetrical sets for two windows, one asymmetrical set for the third;
— two framed panels on a dark backing, sized to standard frames;
— winter and spring motif sets: birds, branches, snowflakes, plant ornament;
— heavy white paper, thin but survivable bridges, clean cut edges without fuzz;
— digital sketches for approval, with corrections agreed before cutting;
— packing: every panel between two sheets of cardboard, interleaved with tissue;
— a short care note with two warnings I want written down: paper burns, so a panel must never hang tight against a light string, a lamp or a candle, and paper decor warps fast in a damp kitchen, so these are for dry rooms only.
Budget is around 520 USD for the whole set, twelve days feels reasonable. Tell me what paper weight you prefer and show a close-up of your thinnest bridges.
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