20 fabulous papercuts from the amazing Paper Panda and friends.

This fabulous book from the ever-popular Paper Panda includes more than 20 original papercut templates from Paper Panda and three other talented papercut designers. Written in her own inimitable style, Paper Panda lets us in on her design secrets, describes her personal inspiration and shares tips from her own students, as well as guiding us through the thorny issue of copyright.

There is a comprehensive list of tools and materials, and useful techniques are described with clear step-by-step photographs. The papercuts are all beautifully photographed, with advice on how to cut them and the full-size templates are printed on beautiful art paper.

Paper Panda gives beginners all they need to know to get started, and more advanced papercutters the inspiration and ideas to create beautiful works of art.

Paper Panda, aka Louise Firchau, is a papercutting superstar, with thousands of fans worldwide eager to purchase her distinctive and highly sought after papercut designs. In this gorgeous book, she shows you not only how its done in easy-to-follow steps, but also provides over 20 papercutting templates to try out for yourself. The book begins with a design section in which Paper Panda provides a personal account of what inspires her, how she works, and how Paper Panda came about. This is followed by the techniques section, in which step-by-step demonstrations illustrate various techniques, including infilling. There follows a fascinating insight into how the author creates finished artwork suitable for papercutting, then how to make the template itself, and how to use the finished papercut to make cards, framed pictures, and so on.

There are 20 papercut projects in the book; five from Paper Panda herself and five each from three of Paper Panda’s friends and colleagues (Sarah Trumbauer, Louise Dyer and Suzy Taylor) – all accomplished papercutters in their own rights. Each project consists of a template, which is reproduced at full-size at the back of the book, and a finished paper cut, together with some simple instructions. The designs are simple enough for beginners, though attractive and interesting enough to inspire more advanced papercutters. The projects themselves include cards, decorations, and mounted and framed pictures to hang on the wall, all using a variety of coloured and patterned papers to show off Paper Panda and friends’ distinctive and beautiful designs to their best advantage.