Heart in Hand Papercutting / French Ephemera

Heart in Hand Papercutting / French EphemeraThis artwork is handmade and hand cut using a variety of old papers. The background is an old French letter and envelope with original stamp. The blue stamp was the inspiration for this piece. The hand is the palest blue textured paper. Handwriting was on the other side, but not very pretty handwriting so I used the blank side. The heart and the cuff are papers that I aged and watercolored. Did you notice the ring? It is only 1 8 wide and was cut from

Choose from 4 styles: house

You will get one of each design: gable barn

It features an ivory colored Swiss cross

Have you ever smelled lilac blooms

since it has made it this long through time

These are inspired by love tokens originally made in the late 1700s and the early 1800s

time-stained paper

friendship

I have included a video so you can see the shimmer on the cuff

Vintage miniature Rick rack trims out this piece

and hand woven using a variety of old papers

I used a vintage