Christmas Trees and "Elves" from German Scrollsaw Magazine

[meflick]

Back a couple years or so ago, @Rolf and @NC Scroller Scott had shared about getting some copies of the German scroll saw magazine, Feinscnitt, and doing some patterns from them. I liked several of the designs from a couple of editions and ordered two different ones with Christmas designs in them. Knowing no German, I was going to have to go on pictures alone. I have looked at them from time to time, bit hadn't tried to make any of them until now. There are still several I want to try but I did get around to cutting these out of 1/4" BB ply and then using the Unicorn Spit stains on them that I bought a while back. (Yes, I am a gotta have it and then procrastinate type person.) LOL

Here is what I finally got done. Several others I want to try from them too. Wish they had a "translated version" of the magazine, or that they could work with SSWC to put some of their articles in SSWC as they have some really beautiful things in their magazine - maybe I just need to learn German. I hear my husband's family's surname is maybe of German origin. (Have also heard not too though.)

This is the magazine's home location: https://www.feinschnitt-kreativ.de - everything is as should be expected in German but with the help of Google translator and a bit of time, I was able to order the copies I did. There are more from the two I want to do, we will see if  I get anymore done from them this year.  I have been playing "clean up" on several projects I had started and have had laying around as well as cutting a few new ones like these this past week so I will try to post a few more photos of some other items this week maybe.

[Ron Johnson]

Very beautifully done Melanie  

[flarud]

Whimsical!  

[rjR]

EYE CATCHING!

 

Very different!

 

That makes them outstanding, great work/

[Rockytime]

Very nice Melanie. Those are really cute!

[dgman]

They all look great Melanie, you did a wonderful job!

[Tomanydogs]

I know whimsical and cute have already been said but that’s the first thoughts in my mind when I saw them. Nice job. I can’t wait to see what else you make from the magazine. 

[Charlie E]

Very cool! Great job, and your photography skills are top notch too.

[daveww1]

great job

[spirithorse]

Very nice!
Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

[Scrappile]

I love them!  Great job.  I agree on the photography also.  Top notch all the way around.

Edited December 16, 2019 by Scrappile

[Denny Knappen]

Way to go, Melanie.  What was it like working with the Unicorn Spit?

[meflick]

Thanks for all of your kind comments. I think it was the whimsy element that appealed to me.

@Denny Knappen working with the Unicorn Spit was really no different then paints in general although the lore you dilute it, the more it is more like a stain. I tried some different strengths of dilution on some scraps and decided I really preferred the darker more vibrant color which I used here. With that, I just used a bit of water to wet the brush. 

[wombatie]

I absolutely adore the Elves, they are soooooooooooo cute.  Fabulous work Melanie.

Marg

[amazingkevin]

Inken,blinking and where's nod??? Looks like fun ,very different,thanks for showing

[John B]

Neat.

[NC Scroller]

Well done!!!  The biggest problem I had when I did the nativity intarsia project was translating the various woods.  Even Google did not know what some where.  In the end I used what I had that was close in color.  

[namunolie]

they are beautiful~~

I learned german language in hige school I wasn't easy~~~:)

[meflick]

8 hours ago, amazingkevin said:

Inken,blinking and where's nod??? Looks like fun ,very different,thanks for showing

Thanks again everyone for the kind comments. They were quick and easy to cut for sure. Something I was interested in.

Thanks Kevin. Pattern didn’t include one for Nod, maybe we need to create one.

Scott, that nativity Intarsia is on my list of things I want to do. I think that is the pattern Rolf had shown he had done from the magazine that peeked my interest, then when I looked there were a couple more like this one I was interested in doing.

Edited December 17, 2019 by meflick