BS: Craft help needed please

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 01:23 AM

Good for you! Who know you'd find it there (except, of course, you can find everything there!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 06:22 PM

OK, I won the elephant punch on ebay. If anyone wants elephant punchies just PM me.

#Rhiannon

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:56 PM

Instead of mere profiles one can take elephant 3d models and make alpha versions from any camera angle imaginable.

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 11:19 AM

Great suggestions, Girlies.

I'm trying not to cut out as my hands shake slightly nowadays and I need a REALLY clean edge as they will be under a piece of magnifying perspex.

I MIGHT have solved the problem though. I've bid on a small elephant punch on ebay and, if I win, this will be perfect.

Also, if I win, I can cut a load of effalumps out for anyone in need. lol

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 09:57 AM

If you can find or draw a suitable silhouette, a sheet-metal working shop may be able to make you a "cookie cutter" die that you could use to make as many little elephants as you want. I have friends in the ceramics biz who've had dies of their original designs made for use in making refrigerator magnets and such.

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 11:08 PM

Xacto to the rescue, if she can run some card stock through her printer. And if it isn't the right size, reduce it with something like Photoshop then cut it out.

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 06:43 PM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 06:33 PM

True. And it would wreck her computer screen, too. Bad idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 06:01 PM

Then she'd have to cut them out.....might be a pain depending on how many she needs.

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 05:57 PM

Go to Google

enter

elephant silhouette

click images

Might be some there you can use.

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 05:51 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to go and try all those sites next.

Incidentally the Sizzix elephant is about 3.5 inches long so too big and the Cuttlebug one is too cute.

What I'm looking for is a silouhette sidelong view in a dark colour - black or similar.

I can find craft buttons etc but it needs to be flat. I can also find effalumps which are too cute or too big.

Thanks for the info so far. I'll let you know how I get on with those sites.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 05:44 PM

Ellison Design might have something but the Sizzix catalogue I have, has no elephants.

Or try rugbycrafts.co.uk, but at present, I can't get into their website.

Good luck. Popular though elephants are, there don't seem to be that many out there.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 05:42 PM

I don't know how big any of these are, but bigger I think. Do you need heads, bodies, or both? All in one? Colour?

http://www.terrycards-shop.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1916
(Kinda 'cute')

http://willascommodities.com/Pretty%20Paper%20Die%20Cut%20Ccards.htm
(not bad actually, black sillhouette)

http://store.scrapjazz.com/
(good one, put elephant in the search box if necessary)

http://us.nine.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi?auction=1183200427-24961-0&mo=auction
(eBay...brown and not bad--goofy grin kinda)

Subject: BS: Craft help needed please
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 05:02 PM

Knowing what knowledgeable crafters get onto this forum I wondered if you could help me source something please.

I'm trying to find elephant die cuts, or similar, size: about an inch or so. They can be African or Indian but NOT cute. {Grin}

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Rhiannon