Show and Tell: Winter Letters

I really love 3D paper art, and I’ve been wanting to do something cool with letters for a while. I saw this craft post that looked like a good starting point.  It’s on a craft supply website, so naturally they are using pre-made letters. Not my thing. I sourced around and found a few options for using my Silhouette Cameo 3 to cut letters, as well as some printable versions, and morphed them up to make my own patterns.

I test cut  and assembled an “S” (for Susan, naturally) and a “P” for my better half. They went together pretty well (a few glitches in my pattern but I fixed them).

I even found a green bottle brush on super reduced after Christmas sale, so I figured I’d be set.

Then I made a bad decision – I didn’t want to paint the letters after I made them. Instead I printed off solid blue sheets of paper to cut and assemble them from.

My second bad decision was not to use a glue gun. I didn’t have any glue sticks, so I thought I could use white tacky glue. I love quick drying tacky glue, but for the assembly on this one, I really need hot glue.

And my third and final bad decision was to make the letters small (my bottle brush wasn’t very big). My test letters are big and bold. My cut files for the WINTER were less than half as tall.

This all conspired to a cranky afternoon of crafting with nothing to show you because I threw it all away after I abandoned trying to get the “W” in “Winter” together.  Three times.

I may try again for “Spring” with a few changes. Glue gun and larger letters for sure. And either commit to going with white paper that gets painted later, or using solid core card stock so the white doesn’t show through the perforated parts.

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