my little *gift*

I had a lot of fun going up to Marquette this weekend for my sister's graduation! More updates about the trip to come, after I upload all the pictures onto my computer. So for this monday morning, I thought I'd share my gift I gave to my sister for her graduation/birthday. Since my sis is a major fan of murder mysteries and detective stories, I made a papercut original of a Sherlock Holmes design; I collected some images and looked at book covers for inspiration. I used a double glass frame for it, and printed (I know, I cheated) a Holmes quote on some acetate to float it under the papercut. Isn't the shadow effect pretty neat?