8.24.2009

The Letter of the Day is K

You may remember a while back when I made decoupaged storage jars like Alexa from The Swell Life.  The first time I followed her instructions using random letters and numbers I cut from various magazines.  When I finished I wondered how it would look if I only used one color.  For my second try I used only red numbers and letters.  After finishing the red jar I wondered how using just one letter would look, can you see where I’m going with this?

I have to confess that I cheated and printed out all my letters.  K is a difficult letter to find and I wanted to use some of the fancy fonts I got from dafont.com (Thanks Lisa).  I picked a large variety of fonts and sizes.  I cut everything out and sorted them out by size.letter jar Ks I start by applying the large letters and filling in with the smaller ones.  Once I used up most of these I cut out my smaller letters, some of them were tiny.  I used them to fill in any tiny gaps or to break up space.letter jar k I really like how it turned out.  This is definitely a great project with many options and uses, I’m sure I’ll be making more of these…oooooh how about a theme like Halloween or roses or eyes, just when I thought I was done exploring the options of this project I get another idea!

5 comments:

oobbles said...

Wow, I really like that in black and white. It has a nice urban/modern feel to it!

Anonymous said...

That is so cute! I am going to try it and make a treat jar for my dog!!

oobbles said...

Oh that's a great idea Stacey! Those would make cute treat jars!

Crafterella said...

That is a great idea, you wouldn't have to just use one letter, you could use the word "treat" in different fonts. The idea really has a lot of different possibilities!

Kristine said...

Love this idea! The black and white is very modern indeed. There's a bunch of ideas for this project swirling through my head right now....Thanks for the inspiration!