All Good in the Scherensnitte Hood

I haven't been working on very many art/craft projects around here. All of this walking & making sure there's always milk in the house, I suppose. I'm not used to doing it all. I have several projects that are sort of stalled right now. Promise to share when they're done. But I was looking around blogland today and found (thank you, Extreme Cards & Papercrafting) a German site filled with Sherensnitte patterns of all sorts. Balsten mit Elisabeth has a lot of really pretty designs of varying difficulty, and a lot of text I don't understand. And then there's this:

Image from Balsten mit Elisabeth

I'm officially cutting paper tonight.

Oh, and

This is my latest completed project (I think). Miss Lyla's parents finally got it and, thank great goodness, liked it, so here it is. My grandmother encouraged me to try this craft, called scherensnitte in it's German incarnation, and I used a book she gave me for this one. It's my first attempt and I really enjoyed it. Soon I'll be designing my own. I've got two in the works that are either modified by me or drawn from my own photos, so I'm getting there.