Mossy Nolan album cover

Here's some pics of the finished album cover and close ups of individual scenes, as well as what the front cover will look like once it's all folded up.

I was really happy with the way the scenes intertwined and bled into each other and also that I was able to incorporate elements from Mossy's instruments into the piece.

Bluetit papercut version

And here's a papercut version of it that I did for my sister's birthday.

Tufted Titmouse papercut version

Here's a papercut collage version of the Tufted Titmouse illustration.

Sunrise

This is the engagement card I did for one of my best friends.

Kingfisher Take III

Papercut version

Typocard

I tried a more typographic design for my flatmate's birthday based on the style of Julene Harrison, which gave me a chance to do a jumble of decorative hand drawn type.

Christmas cuts

Here's some of the cards I did for the Christmas Crafty Market in the Shibeen last weekend.

Bluetit

Keeping up the bird theme here's my granny's 92nd birthday card. I'm thinking of doing a series of bird papercuts, there's such a variety of shapes & sizes all with distinctive silhouettes.

Stork

I haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a congrats card for my friend Erica who had a baby boy recently.

Leaving Cert Luck

This is the Good Luck card I did for my sister a couple of months ago. I'd seen some pics of some really ornate keys and kind of went with an 'education is the key to your future and opens doors for you' theme.

(she did really well by the way!)

Wedding banner

My aunty got married recently to a flight enthusiast who has flown all types of light aircraft including a hang glider with an engine which he flew over part of the French Alps! (I didn't know what that looks like so I did one of these instead!)

Bon Anniversaire

This is the birthday card for my friend who moved to France recently, based on a cool retro 60's style illustration which I love by Lab Partners.

Bluetit

Did a papercut collage for my girlfriend's birthday card based on some lovely minimalist illustrations by Beethings. They're quite reminiscent of Charlie Harper's work from the 60's in their geometric simplicity.

18

This is the card I made for my sister's 18th, I wanted to do an intricate interweaving Rob Ryanesque floral border & then I found a ridiculously ornate Victorian font made from vines and flowers that fitted in perfectly, so I used it as the basis for the numbers.

Acrobat

This is the piece I did for the Tinderbox Circus exhibition that was part of the SoGo festival over the May Bank Holiday weekend. I originally wanted to do a sort of Victorian Freak Show type thing like a bearded lady but decided to go with something a lot simpler and graphic with more elegant lines.

Au Revoir Claire!

My flatmate & best friend Claire moved to France with her boyfriend last week, so this is the farewell card I made for her, full of French clichés & stereotypes! (and a border of croissants!)

I wish them both beaucoup de luck on their voyages fantastiques, I'll miss her lots but at least I'll have une couch to sleep on in Paris maintenant!

Mam's card

This is the card I did for my mam's birthday recently, I added a couple of Rob Ryan birds holding the birthday banner.

More Shaun of the Dead

Here's some better shots & close ups of my Shaun of the Dead papercut. Tyler Stout and movie poster legend Drew Struzan were a big influence on the composition of this, I tried to pick out key characters at iconic moments as well as some of my own favourite moments from the film. cornetto.

Finito!

This is the finished piece. I'll put up some better, non-glary photos when the exhibition finishes next week.

More progress...

Here's a few snaps I took while I was cutting out the final piece. I always like to see the behind the scenes stuff so this shows the process I used to do this papercut.