Handmade Christmas Gift

Its been awhile since my last post. I was thinking about Christmas gifts last year and how I could make something handmade. My Dad has a passion for trains and I cannot keep up with all the books and DVDs he already owns! I found a video on Handmade gifts and in the second half of the video was a paper cutting http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2011/12/20/3394903.htm?site=ballarat and thought, I could do that!

 Sourced a picture of a train on google images, enlarged it to my liking and transferred it to some 200GSM white paper. I did adjust and add to the image moreso for cutting. Here is the result of this;

I'm quite proud, it turned out really well for a first timer! My Dad really, really liked it too! Maybe I'll do more of these in the future. The materials for this are very basic; 200GSM white paper (any sort of paper would do though - maybe not too thin as you will be cutting!), pencil and a hobby knife, plus a lot of patience and some patterned coloured paper for the background. Took me 2 days to do this. The size is almost A4, so it was a fairly large first time project and I really enjoyed creating this. It's a very clever and thoughtful gift to give to others!