**Each weekend, I'll be offering giveaway's from artists and artisans with a simple wish that we can all support handmade this holiday season! Enjoy!

Photo credit: Edyta Szyszlo

I am so excited to announce this weekend's giveaway:

A copy of Silhouette Art: Papers, Instructions, and Patterns for Making Modern Heirlooms

Vana Chupp, artist behind Le Papier Studio has been creating personalized silhouette art for about the same time I've been in business. We have been each other's cheerleaders as we have built our businesses, and it's so wonderful to see her with her own book and instruction papers published through Chronicle Books! She has a lovely ESTY shop, online shop as well as a great blog....and have you seen her studio? Drool now.

She sent me a copy in the mail of this wonderful book. It's not exactly a book...because it comes with all you need to make your own silhouette art!

Photo credit: Edyta Szyszlo

Papers, ideas, you name it. But let me tell you....it's lovely. It comes with a sweet little instruction booklet, with tips and how-to's. It also has a dozen stylized papers, black papers for cutting, and free silhouettes for your own use!