My 9 year old daughter is a big Katy Perry fan, and fortunately my wife is a good enough sport to go along with her on this… and I get to just craft the gift giving! She’s going with a good friend of hers (combination birthday and Xmas) so I made all of them a set of concert tickets (since everything is digital) to “open”.
I spent ages on getting Katy Perry just right so it looks like the official imagery, whatchy’all think?
Engraved on maple ply, traced the image in Inkscape then a lot of manual cleanup and editing. Font is “Function Pro” for her name, Katy Perry, and then just traced the font for “WITNESS”.
Really cool! My best friend’s wife and his sister just went to this concert a week or so ago. I thought that maybe you had printed these on paper (because I’ve been engraving on paper lately so I’m a little close minded ATM) but the wood came out really awesome! I bet these would be cool printed on some cardstock and then framed, or even better, on some veneer and put on a black cardstock background and then framed! Sorry, I wasn’t joking about being obsessed with engraved paper haha
In any case, seriously cool, and I’m sure your daughter and her friends are going to go bananas over these!
You seriously should! The black cardstock I have has an amazing copper/brown color when engraved, and I can’t believe how smooth the engraving is when done.
I don’t believe I paid what it’s listed, but I also think I only got 25 sheets or so. I used 1000 speed and 5 power for this, and it came out pretty great. I have gone up to 15 power without issue, but I figured the less power I used the better in case it stays in one spot longer than I expect it to. It’s not the thickest paper either at only .01 thickness, so I glued two pieces together and it’s a much better result!
