Thursday, November 6, 2014

Where the Puzzle Project is now

The first pass of the FreakShow puzzles have been completed!


While I was sitting at the Ferndale DIY assembling a puzzle for fun, I mentioned to a fellow member that I had painted each piece by hand. He then told me that I was insane and let me know that if I covered a painting with contact paper it should laser with little burn. 

"Haven't you ever read the posters by the bathrooms?"

Apparently I had not. Because I checked those posters first thing on my next restroom visit. The answer was right there in front of my face, contact paper. And it really worked. I tested the idea out on this unicorn puzzle. 


Then switched to pre-painting some Christmas ornaments and necklaces… 




Contact paper (in realty, I used painters tape. It works the same way) is my new best friend on the lasers. This way I could use higher quality paint and paint brushes instead of the paint pens I had used before. 

Can't wait to see what other not-so-secret secrets I don't know :)