Apparently Oak and I find the best time to work on our hobbies when the other is sleeping. This is my product of last night after Oak went to bed… my first actual completed project using the Silhouette. I found this funky Indian-style font on dafont.com. This is pretty much what Hindi looks like, but without the Western characters.. haha I then used one of the tutorials I’ve found online to weld the letters together. Each character has a line above it, so I welded the line together so it could be placed on the page in one piece. There were a few detached characters (the a, e, and i), but those were easy enough to place with all the other letters attached to each other.

The paper is from Rusty Pickle, the “Pashmina collection.” Belinda is the one that actually found this paper – she was much better at finding Indian-themed scrapbook papers than me.

I have about 3 or 4 more pages before my India scrapbook is done. I think I’m going to eventually put them all in my gallery on scrapbook.com. I just need to work on getting some better skills at taking pictures of layouts!

This layout is about the kite festival in Ahmadabad – Nirav’s cousins taught us the art of tying and flying kites. The main goal during the festival is to knock other people’s kites out of the sky. The string on the kites is very abrasive and has little pieces of glass in it so you can actually cut the string of the other kites. It’s kind of like a kite war. When we were there, it was a few days before the festival actually started so people were out on their roofs practicing. I’ve never been very good at flying kites (as a kid I think my kites always got caught in a tree), and this was no exception. Someone always had to save my sinking kite… haha. Sigh!

Posted by Carrie on Sunday, December 21, 2008
Categories: india, scrapbooking, silhouette · 3 Comments »