Other Christmas Projects

[Mike Moffitt]

Here are a few other Christmas Projects we did. Kerri liked the idea of the acrylic braclets, so she is playing around with those, we did the T-Rex from the Epilog site for our nephews, we did LazerBuzz's F-15 for another nephew, we did the Family Tree for Grandma, and the frames for other Grandparents. It's been a lot of learning and probably didn't save a ton of money after all the experimenting but it sure was fun!

Mike

[Mike Christen]

Once again very nice work, great idea for the family tree. Love to make one for my parents, care to share? Bracelets are very nice also, very creative

[Mike Moffitt]

Mike,
I don't mind shooting you the CDR of the family tree but you will have to do quite a bit of work on it. Because each family is different, you would need to delete some leaves, limbs, etc (by removing the nods), then add back what you need. But if you want them, I'll send them your way.

mike

[Bill Cunningham]

Seems to me, that a few years ago, we had a whole bunch of family tree layouts posted.. I entered "family tree" as a search keyword and about 13 pages came up from various forums on the creek.. I know the ones I seen were all in the laser forum.. Happy hunting!

[Mike Christen]

Seems to me, that a few years ago, we had a whole bunch of family tree layouts posted.. I entered "family tree" as a search keyword and about 13 pages came up from various forums on the creek.. I know the ones I seen were all in the laser forum.. Happy hunting!

Thanks for the info Bill, time to go hunting :D

[Jeremy Butler]

On the full wood frame, is the frame and center piece of wood with the names cut in all one piece or how did you do it?

[Darryl Hazen]

Jeremy,

You can order the frames from:

http://www.coloradoheirloom.com/Frames.html

[Mike Moffitt]

Jeremy,
We used 1/8 or 1/4 inch ply on the wood one...it just happened to match the frame perfectly. The other one we used a piece of matte board. Both worked out really good. The matte board is more versitile because you can get it in about any color, it's cheap, and it lasers faster than the wood.

Mike

[Andrea Weissenseel]

the bracelets are very nice, how did you paint them ?

Andrea

[Mike Moffitt]

We just spray painted the clear acrylic black, then rastered it off and vectored it out. We were concerned about heating the paint and it bubbling or something but it did fine and I think heating it might have "cured" it.

[Chuck Patterson]

I too am wondering how you do you do the names on the wooden picture frame (attachment #3)?

[James Rambo]

Maybe this will help I pulled it off the Epilog website, and used it on the same page.