In March I co-hosted a baby shower for my friend Katie. At the time I had just finished a Textile Design class at Mesa Community College and for months my husband had been encouraging me to come up with some projects to use the laser cutter at his work. This shower provided me the opportunity to explore each.
For the invitations Maaren, another co-host, had found some fun paper that we wanted to use as the backing and somehow print the information on another sheet attached to the front. I designed a simple squirrel shape within a circle that could be cut out to showcase the pretty paper. I was also able to reuse this shape to cut wood medallions to decorate the seed pouches which could also be reused as necklaces or earrings. This was a really fun first experience with the laser, next time I will do something more thought provoking or worthy of such a valuable tool. Red = cut. Black = etch.
As part of the decorations I made table runners out of burlap that I folded long-ways, then rolled into cylinders before dip dying with olive green and brown. I used some of the extra burlap to make little pouches that were filled with wild flower seeds.
