If you are ever wondering where my ideas in fabric and needle crafts come from, I can pretty much guarantee Rebecca at Hugs are Fun had a good hand in it, or at least started me down the path. This week is no different, and she even took it a step farther by handing me … Continue reading 92: Laser Cut Appliqués
Saving your child's doodle forever is amazingly easy on the laser engraver. I'm lucky enough to have friends with adorable children to be my guinea pigs! Engraving black and white sketches is incredibly easy on the laser. All I really had to do was dial up the contrast on these sketches to make sure I … Continue reading 36: Kid Sketches
Google recently unveiled their own humorous take on the recent virtual reality push by folks like Oculus Rift and Sony with their Morpheus project: Cardboard. It's a simple housing, built from cardboard or similar cheap material, which uses a pair of small lenses coupled with an Android smartphone to display a rudimentary virtual reality view. … Continue reading 33: Google Cardboard
Here are the stages of the painting test for Rebecca's laser cut recipe box. Before I committed to making the gift, I wanted to make sure paint over transfer tape would work with such an intricate design. It was kind of a pain to peel the tape (it didn't come off in one big chunk) … Continue reading Testing painting with transfer tape
