Corrugated Cardboard Cut Out Art

The idea for this came about just from some corrugated cardboard lying around the house. At first my plan was to use it as a surface to paint on, but then I got thinking some more and wondered what kind of effect I’d get if I cut into the cardboard and peeled back to expose the different layers. So, I had a go and created this.

Read on to see my process.

First I cut down the cardboard to the size I wanted and painted it.

Then I cut triangles into the cardboard at different depths. Some I cut just so I could peel off the first layer to reveal the wavey cardboard layer underneath and others I cut down further so I could peel back both of those layers to reveal the flat card layer underneath.

I then painted some of backgrounds of the triangles and round the edges of others in gold. This is what I ended up with.

It was a really quick and easy project and created an interesting effect. The corrugated cardboard was thicker than normal, so I could have easily cut down into the deeper layers, but for my first try I thought I’d keep things simple.