ScanNCut Project - How to design a Charley Harper style papercut Cardinal Bird in Canvas

Evening. I originally designed this bird shape as a papercut within the machine itself. However, as it turns out, I've not actually seen my camera since Christmas Day so I assume it's still at the parentals' house. So this project has been done using the Free Brother Canvas software to then be transferred to the machine for cutting. Eventually if I ever remember to ask the parentals, I may well have my camera back. But for now, Canvas all the way!

This Project uses basic shapes in Canvas to create a 3 colour papercraft Cardinal Bird in the style of Charley Harper, a mid 20th century American designer. If all goes well, it will look like this:

Charley Harper style Cardinal papercraft bird

SNC Projects - Posy of Flowers Pop Up Card - Part 1 - Flower Outline Template

I recommend you go read the Intro post for the project HERE if you haven't already.

Part 1 covers how to create the Cutting (and Drawing) Outline for the Flower shape needed in the card, from a single basic shape. Below is a picture of what you end up with - basically it looks like a frilly pac-man lol, and underneath that, is the shape you use to make it.

Final Welded Template ready to go

Initial Basic Shape

SNC Projects - Posy Of Flowers Pop Up Card or Garland - Intro

I've skipped ahead of myself with the Basics Series, and decided to blog a Project dealing with manipulating basic shapes in the machine, mostly because it got a good response in the various Facebook Groups with people wanting to learn how to do it themselves and it will give newbies something to actually cut out once I do those blog posts about Test Cutting and actual cutting out.

This is what you will be making: A Posy of Flowers Pop Up Card:

Posy of Flowers Pop Up Card

This uses 7 paper flowers, that you can make manually and then glue together OR you can make them using only the SNC machine, or you can make them in Canvas and import them to the SNC machine for cutting.

If you have 8 paper flower and glue them slightly differently, you can make a full globe shape that can be used for a garland.