Skating Pond

[BurghGal]

Finally got around to making a skating pond for my little village. Pond is cardboard base, covered with a layer of aluminum foil, topped with a layer of waxed paper. Edging is just puddled tacky glue, painted after the glue set and topped with a dusting of glitter. Snowman is baked and painted Fimo clay. Figures are jpg's printed on poster board and cut with my Cricut. Glued them to the ice with dots of hot glue. Frosty is a wee bit too big, so I may redo him.

[Lucy]

Very nice. Great addition to the winter village. The wax paper surface really looks like ice.

Lucy

[JCass]

Turned out great! Good job!

John

[maria]

can i see a close-up of the cri-cut figures and do you sell them unpainted I assume?

[Howard]

I sure would like to see more about the flattie figurines you’ve cut out...pond turned out just fine....the snowman isn’t too large...he looks right at home!...

[Lynn]

Nice job!! I just purchased a cricut would love to hear more about how you made them

[BurghGal]

The figures on the skating pond were cut from poster board with my Cricut. 123RF.com is the website where I got the ice skating figures. They have free downloads as well as purchase options. I got jpg files so I could import them into Cricut Design Space.

Design Space is the Cricut software used to set up your cuts. When you import the files you can remove the background so all you have are the figures themselves. Once you import them, you can resize them as you need. Then it’s just print them on your inkjet and then let your Cricut do the cutting. I hope this makes sense to those of you who have cutting machines. If not, I’d be happy to email you more specifics.

It is pretty amazing how finely you can cut things. These figures won’t have any of the charm of the
Flatties folks have been making here, but they did the trick for this purpose.

I’m not at home now to take a closeup of the figures, but will post one over weekend.

[PutzinVT]

Hi:

I was wondering if you could share the model of Cricut you use.
And what's the thickest stock it will cut is.

Meaning can it cut the weight of a cereal box.

Thanks for the info,

Steve

[BurghGal]

I use a Cricut Explore Air. It will cut chipboard, tablet weight. I use it to cut many of my houses. Of course, it’ll do all weights of paper, cardstock and poster board. It will also do vinyl, lightweight foil.

There is a more upscale model that cuts heavier materials such as balsa wood, but I have never used one, so I can’t speak for it as a user. It’s the Cricut Maker. It also cuts fabric! It uses a rotary cutting system, whereas my machine uses the equivalent of a micro Xacto knife kind of cutter.

Hope this answers your questions, Steve!

[BurghGal]

Here’s a closeup of the skaters. They are a smidge over 3/4”.