General - Laser Cutting

Where some of the detail was lost on the original pattern, I altered it on photoshop moving some elements and resizing them so that gaps were bigger and lines didn't overlap.

I recut this on the laser cutter again, however the black paper didn't cut, which was annoying. I wasn't sure what I was doing wrong. I also reversed the colours, cutting it out on white, backing it on black, which I felt was stronger, having the elements in black, like the composition I made with the cut outs. I wanted to do this again and explore different layouts and see if I could make a stronger link between simple and ornate, but as the black didn't cut. This messed up my plans.