A Year In Numbers

This year, and in particular the last few months, Oh Cut It Out has come on in leaps and bounds. I've sent Gilmore Girls cards to Chicago to be used as party invitations, added shipping to New Zealand and Denmark at the request of customers, and spent an unenviable amount of time in the post office queue...

Below is a quick roundup of some of the years highlights...

"You Are Here" papercut exhibited as part of Derby Museums' "Everyone" exhibition.

Gilmore Girls "Stars Hollow" papercut map.  

Cut during a week of intense Gilmore Guys podcast binge listening, this papercut has been printed on postcards, greetings cards, and prints which in turn have been posted to the US, Canada, Europe, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand... A completely unexpected best seller!

Blog header for https://honestlylucy.com/ 

I'll be doing more work for Lucy in the new year!

My cards in Derby Museums shop!

SRSLY Gilmore Girls quiz winners proudly holding my "Stars Hollow" prints (photo from @JoeInnes twitter).

Christmas Fair @ The Walled Garden, Beeston Fields.

2016 in numbers...

475+ sales on etsy
37 US states Gilmore Girls postcards have been posted to
6 Gilmore Girls prints & 6 Gilmore Girls postcards used as prizes for the SRSLY Gilmore Girls quiz
6 blogs featured Gilmore Girls cards/prints on gift guides
3 stockists secured 
3 fairs attended 
1 piece of work included in Mine Anthology in support of #repealthe8th
1 Gilmore Girls postcard featured on the official Netflix/Gilmore Girls website
1 Gilmore Girls postcard featured on Buzzfeed
1 piece of work exhibited at Derby Museums

Fingers crossed (and with a lot of hard work) 2017 continues to exceed my expectations...

Happy Holidays!

Until next time...

-Karen

Stars Hollow

Stars HOLLA!

As a papercut artist I'm always looking for ways to combine my craft with my interests... And with the news of the upcoming Gilmore Girls Netflix reboot, and 183 episodes of the Gilmore Guys podcast under my belt, a Gilmore Girls themed papercut seemed inevitable...

 

As all Gillies know, Gilmore Girls is set in the fictional small town of Stars Hollow, located approximately 30 minutes from Hartford in Connecticut.

I love personalised maps, and since my search for a Stars Hollow papercut map turned up zero results I began plotting to cut one out... I used an aerial photograph of the Warner Brothers studio back lot (where the show is filmed) to ensure the correct locations of the buildings.

 

Many of the houses and businesses within Stars Hollow have distinct exteriors, although perhaps only an avid Gilmore Girls viewer could distinguish them all... For this reason I sprinkled identifying symbols and initials across the map.

For example, Luke's Diner is topped with the recognisable coffee cup logo, Miss Patty's School of Ballet has a pair of ballet slippers, and Taylor Doose's Old-Fashioned Soda Shoppe has an ice-cream shaped window.

Over the past 21 months the popularity of the Gilmore Guys podcast (hosted by Kevin and Demi) has united the Gilmore Girls fan base, and formed friendships via social media. 

Rather than make my Stars Hollow papercut into a print, I turned it into postcards in the hope that Gillies would send handwritten messages to one another! I know I'd rather receive a postcard than a tweet any day...

The postcards are made from high-quality, lightly textured card and I am so happy with them! To purchase one visit my etsy shop: OhCutItOut.etsy.com

And now for the important bit: Team Dean, Team Jess or Team Logan?

Until next week...

-Karen