Peanut Life Adventures: Mr. and Mrs. WordArt

Wedding season is just around the corner, and as part of this month's Silhouette Challenge of WordArt/Typography I wanted to share with you this fun floating frame I designed as a gift for my brother and sister-in-law. (Check out more awesome posts typography and word art posts at the bottom of this post!)
I'm sure you've seen lots of similar signs on Pinterest - there were so many to choose from and I had a hard time narrowing down just what I wanted. After lots of debate, and lots of searching for the perfect frame, this is what I came up with.

I did all of my designing in Silhouette Studio. First I made my page size the same size as the glass. It helped to be able to use the color dropper to fill in the shapes and words to get a better idea of what the final product would look like. Overall, this is a pretty simple project, but there were so many fonts to choose from! That was the hardest part, choosing a font (or pairs of fonts). I knew I wanted something that was solid and bold and would cut easily. I also wanted to make the letters fairly thick, so the silver would show up (even though it's tough to see in some of the pictures!) I knew I wanted to keep the colors as silver and blue, since that was their wedding colors.

The frame is a floating frame from Hobby Lobby (score half off frames!). I didn't like the double layer of glass, so I actually took one layer of glass out and then used hot glue to hold the second layer of glass in place so it wouldn't rattle.

Once all the design work was done, I cut out the blue first. Since the project was not overly large, I did use the mat to cut my vinyl (I think it helps keep things from slipping!). Using transfer tape helped me to keep the spacing correct. Since the silver words were smaller, I chose to place them by hand - I was trying to be conservative with my vinyl. It would have been easier to use one of the tutorials from Silhouette school to easily keep the spacing with the multiple colors, but since the silver bits were fairly small, and so spaced out, I didn't want to waste that much vinyl. So I used my trusty transfer tape and measured (and double checked!) and placed the date, mr, mrs, and heart on my own.

This was my first big project with vinyl and first using multiple colors. I learned some new tricks and things I would do differently next time, but I'm super happy with how it turned out.
Can't wait to see what I can make next with my Cameo!

Want to Check Out More Silhouette Projects?

My Silhouette Challenge buddies and I are all sharing projects on our blogs today, so peruse the projects below for a wealth of Silhouette inspiration!