What pessukim would you want on your artwork?

Gold Member Joined: Jul 06 2009 Age: 26 Posts: 1174

Recently I've started making papercuts, and I plan to start selling them. A bunch are still just designs with an empty spot for a passuk. Any ideas? What pessukim do you like or would you want hanging in your home?
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Posted: Tue, Jan 19 2010, 11:55 pm Post subject:

birchas habayis
im eshkachaych yerushalayim tishkach yemini
v'ahavta lerayacha kamocha
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We've got a BEAUTIFUL papercut in my living room that has the following passuk:

Yehi Shalom B'chaylech Shalva B'arminosayich.

Ironically enough, many years later we had a child that we named one of those names! Truly a Shalom or Shalva in our home.

Posted: Tue, Jan 19 2010, 11:57 pm Post subject:

if you make some 'eishet chayal' those will sell well
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Gold Member Joined: Jul 06 2009 Age: 26 Posts: 1174

thanks. any ideas for less common pessukim?

some that I found in mishlei when I learned it a few yaers ago that spoke to me, although they may be odd for artwork

ברב דברים לא יחדל- פשע וחשך שפתיו משכיל.
In an abundance of words, offense will not be lacking, but one who restrains his lips is wise.
proverbs 10:19

דאגה בלב- איש ישחנה ודבר טוב ישמחנה.

When there is worry in a man�s heart, he should suppress it, and let good things covert it to gladness.
proverbs 12:25

מכסה-פשע מבקש אהבה ושנה בדבר מפריד אלוף.
One who covers offense seeks love; but one who harps on the matter alienates the ruler.
proverbs 17:9

פוטר מים ראשית מדון ולפני התגלע הריב נטוש.
The beginning of a quarrel is like releasing water; before the argument is revealed, abandon it!
proverbs 17:14

when I was into makiing these kind of things, I did 'ivdu es hashem besimcha' 'simcha poretz geder' 'v'ahavta lerayacha kamocha' 'mizrach'

I made one for a friend with cancer that said 'kavei el hashem, chazak ve'ameitz libecha, vekavei el Hashem'

'Yehi Shalom B'chaylech Shalva B'arminosayich.' was my favourite though.

'layehudim hoisa orah vesimcha vesason vikor'

look at Michel Shwartz's work for ideas. www.jewdaica.com, I think
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Rov Eliyashiv, shlit"a, holds that one should not hang pesukim in one's home as a decoration because it is a bizayon to the pesukim. (My addition: I guess it's like some say singing pesukim is not kavod for the pesukim either.) So what did I do for the pesukim in our home artwork? I covered them up with scrapbooking stuff and it looks kinda natural. I must say that at first I didn't understand because we are beautifying the pesukim with the artwork, but the Rov holds that way notwithstanding my thoughts.
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karov hashem lchol korav vchol asher yikrauhu bemet.
Hashem is close to all those who call him and to all those that call him in truth

K'ayal tarog al afikay mayim, kain nafshi sarog aylecha elokim

Ma tovu ohalecha yaakov mishkenosecha yisrael

Mitzva gedolah lihyos bsimcha
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Oh, and pesukim about Yerushalayim always speak to me.

Platinum Member Joined: Oct 14 2009 Posts: 5893

OP, what patterns do you use for the designs? Do you make them up or what?