Sorry it has taken me so long for another post. I have been busy with planning and hosting a bachelorette party and making wedding things, my brother is getting married for the third time this Saturday. That would be a whole different post to explain all that, lol.
This week however I have done some things I’ve been wanting to do for awhile. I have been wanting one of those personalized glass blocks. I had made one that I had etched but didn’t like it, luckily it didn’t have our first names on it and I’m able to give it to my in-laws (I added their first names). Their anniversary was last week but they were on vacation so they will get when they get home today.
So I was going to do the same D with our names and thought, no I want to make the first names larger so they stand out more. And I thought I would do it with vinyl this time. So I etched the whole front so it would have the frosted look. Then I really spent some time trying to find a D I wanted. Then I thought, you know we have a lot of chevron print in our bedroom and I could tie it into that if I could find a chevron letter. I found some but none from a silhouette file and when I tried to trace them with the program it just didn’t look good. So being the clever girl I am and not wanting to give up just yet, I found a chevron print and put it behind a D. This did cause some problems like when I went to take out a line, it took it all there was no outline of the D. There was also a situation with the lines, I wasn’t able to take every other one for it to look right. So I started out at the top and did a few taking one row every 2, then started at the bottom doing the same. When I got to the middle I did every other one. And then, so I would have an outline I got out my trusty knife and cut just a little bit. If you look close you will see all these mistakes. But I’m happy with it considering all the work I put in it to get what I wanted. I also added our wedding date in the same color as our first names at the bottom.
I then added a light. Here are some more pictures with the light on/off and me playing with the camera flash.
I love it and it is much more our style than the first one I did.
Hope you have a good day. Since it’s been awhile I may be back later today with another post. I’m getting unpredictable since being so busy. I don’t like it much, I like routine. 🙂
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