I used an incising and lifting technique for Day 15. The whole design is off-centre because I wasn’t quite sure of what I was going to do as I started laying this out on the back. My measurements were off but overall it works. 

I felt a lot of pressure to make the heart for Day 14 something spectacular because it’s Valentine’s Day. I thought about making a 3D heart, or maybe using paper folding. In the end I went with making the piece from spectacular metallic copper foil paper. The design is drawn with a mechanical pencil and I like that this creates an embossed surface on the other side.

I love this piece for Day 13. I left the heart partially uncut and then carried the cut pattern over into that side as a gel pen drawing. The drawing looked so meh and uninteresting, and I decided to try something else. I sorted through my collage scraps, and went with covering it up with 70s  patterned paper.

I love how this came together out of a mistake.

Day 12 is a hand-cut paper piece that Boris says looks like a waffle fry.

I decided to revisit paper weaving again for Day 11, and boy was it annoying to do. It’s challenging in a fussy way because I am working so small. I do like the results though.

Day 10 is a metallic blue gel pen drawing on red card stock. It reads much better in person than it does in this photo. 

It’s very satisfying to flip through the first ten of 28 Days of Hearts series. It’s amazing how quickly work can accumulate in a project when you work on it every day.

Day 8 is a paper cut of leaves shaped into a heart. This is one of my favourite pieces of the series so far. I often use this as a freeform motif in my pattern mixing compositions.

I shot another hyperlapse as I was finishing this piece and will share it on Instagram later today or tomorrow.

I started this piece for Day 7 a few days earlier because paper stitching is more involved than some of the other techniques I’ve used so far. This is French knot embroidery, which is a bit trickier when done in paper.

For Day 6 I introduced another technique into the mix with paper weaving. I cut different sections of the red card stock heart into attached strips, and then wove gorgeous 1/8 inch wide pieces of chiyogami through those cut bits. The woven ends of the paper were shaped and folded around the edges of the heart, and then glued at the back.

Working this small was a bit too fiddly, but I do love the paper weaving technique.