A little more than a year ago, my mom was invited to the wedding of our family friends’ daughter (they were all actually long time neighbors from house where I grew up.) My mom has always been one for special gifts, something out of the ordinary and memorable (often loud and obnoxious.) The couple had chosen a unique wedding invitation (right) and she thought that a custom cut paper mat for their wedding photo based on the invitation design would be just the one-of-a-kind gift she was looking for.
Here (left) is the final product: the mat is 13”x19” with a double-matted section for an 8”x10” photograph. In order to accurately replicate the leaves in the original design, I used both light and dark orange craft papers. For each color, I created a small, medium and large leaf shape and then made right-curving and left-curving versions of each size. That’s twelve distinct leaves. I hand cut all the leaves, about 200 in all (enough for some extras) and then added veins with a marker to each and every one. I think I went a bit cross-eyed by the end, but the result was worth it.
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