'Lucky Dip' Aceo sketches (2 5/8" x 3 5/8") arrived and flew then out of the shop at almost the speed of light this week! They're all being drawn up and posted as we speak!
Artist Info:
Mrs P
AKA Louise Firchau is the artist behind the folk style Paper Panda
papercuts. She created the characters Bunny & Bird, the naughty
cake-eating FBH, and Jess & Brown Bear among others and is currently
working on her second papercut design book.
Her sketches will be mostly in pencil with maybe a hint of watercolour in some.
Mr P
AKA Ryan Firchau is responsible for the darker, more gothic PP papercut
designs but apart from Paper Panda he is a very much sought after
artist in his own right, creating work for Terry Pratchett's Discworld
series, also winning a BAFTA for designing computer games for Microsoft,
he has created drawings and 3D concepts for many games and movies and
is also a talented sculptor of scary stuff in The Room Of Death.
His sketches will be mainly in pencil and blood. (No, not really).
TimSam
AKA Sam Woropaj is head of...the PP packing room. He is very extremely
tall, beardy and you can't understand a word he says. He likes cats,
bakes cakes and refuses to wear the hat I bought him for Christmas with
copulating reindeer on it.
If you pull TimSam out of the
metaphorical hat then you're in for a treat. His scribble will be worth
millions* in years to come and I wouldn't be surprised if he draws it in
chocolate.
The examples shown here are:
Glitter, Dachshund, Wine & Alpaca (drawn by Mrs P)
Courage, Dragon, Mouse, Rainbow (drawn by Mr P)
Unicorn, Cupcake, Hedgehog, Cat (drawn by TimSam)
Stars, Friends, Happy, Courage (drawn by Mrs P)
Please allow up to 3 weeks for delivery as it will take some time for
us to complete each one, especially as Mr P draws his 8963 times before
he's happy.
*millions of, um, Yen.
**NEW STUFFS**
You might remember ages ago I featured the work
of freelance illustrator and graphic artist Martin Tomsky. He's
properly talented, creating the most amazing scenes and brooches, laser
cut from plywood.
Well, lucky old you can now can buy the
brooches in the guest artist area our shop *wees a bit*, there's four
stunning woodland creatures to choose from, robin, fox, mouse or rabbit.
Which is your favourite?
**Special Competition Time**
WIN a papercutting weekend away for you and a friend worth £600!
You will win:
A one night stay at the Old Manse Hotel for you and a friend (twin
room, including breakfast). The hotel is situated next to the tranquil
River Windrush, just a stones throw from Panda's house in beautiful
Bourton on the Water, in the heart of the Cotswolds.
You will both come along to the workshop on Saturday 17th October 2015
to learn different aspects of paper cutting, including hints and tips
from Mrs P herself - plus all the sandwiches and cake you can eat!
You will each receive a full Introductory Papercutting Kit, plus 10 DIY Templates from the current range.
You will each receive a signed copy of Mrs P's new book "20 To Make Papercutting".
PLUS £100 spending money each!
All you have to do to win this amazing prize is tag a friend and say
why you'd like to win! Please feel free to spread the love by liking and
sharing this post - sharing is caring, after all.
A limited number of workshops dates are also available to purchase on 17/18th Oct, 14/15th Nov and 9/10th Jan.
The winner will be selected at random at 8pm on Sunday 22nd March.
Paper Panda staff are not permitted to enter. Over 18s only. This
promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or
associated with Facebook.
It's here! It's time! The book is ready! Hooray!
I've been busy signing hundreds of the book for the lucky few of you that bagged yourself one. Have you got yours?
They are available in limited quantities in our online shop
now. We're posting as quickly as we can - and of course it's dedicated
to you lot - yes, YOU (and poor Mr P haha!)...
On a final note this week it's with great sadness we say farewell to
Sir Terry Pratchett.
April 28th 1948 - March 12th 2015
I started reading Terry's Discworld series
of books 20 years ago. My first cat was called Greebo (I always said
when I got a kitty it would be!) after the feline figure in the books. I
even have it tattooed on my arm. He means a great deal to us here and
although we are not shocked, we are deeply saddened and our thoughts are
with his family, our friends Sandra & Rob Wilkins and Paul Kidby
who created the most wonderful book cover artwork.
You will be very
greatly missed and it's been a pleasure helping your characters come to
life in paper and working with you and your team over the past couple of
years. It was the greatest honour.
Rest in peace Terry, may you live on in your words as we pass your wonderful books to our children for them to love too.
RIP Sir Terry. xx
We have made 4 original
Paper Panda cuts live on eBay! There was the stunning ‘Infinity’, featuring
Stag; then this evening we released ‘Serenity’, featuring the beautiful badger
and his cub; then there’s ‘Buttercup’ and finally the fabulous ‘You Can Do It’ is
finishing in the next few hours! 
It’s also been a bumper
week for guest artists, firstly, Martin Tomsky used his incredible artistry to design
and create brooches based on PP designs, there was Bunny with a brolly, Bird
with some balloons and FBH with a cupcake. Then we had Ullagami’s ‘LionHeart’
template, which can be yours for the very modest price 100 of your English
pennies. 
This was the week where
all the admin staff (and TimSam) dressed in yellow for #wearyellowforseth, to
raise awareness of a rare disease, which means little Seth will need a bone
marrow transplant. 
