We've made it all the way to lucky number 13! This week's project was Rebecca of Hugs are Fun's idea and was inspired by Darby Smart's Inked coasters project. It worked well on ceramic, why not try it on acrylic? (Original kit instructions at The Crafted Life.) To create some variables, I prepared squares of white acrylic, clear … Continue reading 13: Alcohol Inked Acrylic
I have a fairly healthy collection of NES games; you can kind of see them in this listing for one of my abecediaries on Etsy. If you haven't figured by some of my previous projects, I'm a big fan. Because of this, deciding to use some of my spare NES cartridges as canvases for laser … Continue reading 12: NES Etching
A few weeks ago, I was planning to visit an artist friend of mine and wanted to bring something laser-made to show off. I settled on some very small, very fine etched-wood versions of some of his recent grayscale artings. Making the art look good on the surface was tricky, and while I had a … Continue reading 10: Tiny Things
It's almost been a full year since I first walked into the Aurora Yoga Center and took my first yoga class with Jeff Manning. And, as a laser cutter, a year since I spied the lovely handmade wooden yoga blocks in the studio and thought "I could etch those!" Fast forward to 2014; a new … Continue reading 09: Etched Yoga Blocks at Aurora Yoga Center
