Paper cutting practice

I thought that I might have a paper cutting practice, just to see what I can create. I took the simple idea from the Peter Callesen web-site of a few butterflies cut from white paper. What a nightmare, I can't believe that anyone can produce anything as delicate as some of the pieces he has done. My cutting knife isn't very delicate so that's part of the problem, I know you can get pen sized cutting implements which would probably be a lot better for this sort of thing. Anyway here's a few pictures of the piece that I've done. The reality is that the physical piece of work looks like a bit of a mess and the photographs look fairly good. Here are some pictures:-





I think that I will practice some more, practice makes perfect after all. I like the butterfly theme and I think flowers may work reasonably effectively. Let's see what I come up with.