Other People's Work #6

Today's example is a frankly amazing mandala made by Cari Camarra, CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher).  But she didn't draw this.  It's not a tangle.  It turns out, Cari's a papercutting artist and has been cutting snowflakes and mandalas for years.  On Saturday evening while her family was watching tv, she folded some paper and made some cuts.  Below is the still-folded, freshly cut piece, and then under that is the staggeringly lovely mandala:

The completed cut, still folded. Before the revelation! © Cari Camarra, 2017

SNOWFLAKE CUTOUT ON PAPER, © 2017 Cari Camarra

I loved this.

But Cari gave us all a huge chuckle when she 'fessed up about the paper she used.  As it turns out, it's the unused end of a roll from her doctor's office's examining table.  You could hear the gasps and then the laughs.  She assured us it was pristine and had "no butt-imprints on it" before she worked with it.  (I think I remember her saying that she worked in a doctor's office and asked them for a whole roll of brand new examining-table-paper about 20 years ago, and is still using that same roll.) 

You can find out more about Cari's work HERE (her website) and HERE (her Facebook Page).  Thanks to Cari for letting me share this. 

Now, where did I put my scissors...?

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You may well ask, "Where are the first 5 posts in this series, since this is called number 6?"  Um...I've only numbered one other--the first one.  But if you look in the right-hand column on this page and scroll down to "Categories," you'll find a category called "Other People's Work." I've actually done several other posts on the topic and forgotten to number them.