Hi Everyone! While I was working on the heart container key chain, I came across another image I wanted to use for something, my creative squirrel distraction system kicked in and I figured it was time to try something with lights. I had this string of lights I got at Michael’s for a couple bucks on sale a while back, figured I’d find a way to make that work. Then I realized that the inside would be lit up, and I needed a way to light the front, so the mini spot-light was born! Assembly was an all day pain in the neck, as my wire trench wasn’t really big enough and I was trying to cram 10 lbs of wiring and lights in to a 5 lb bucket, plus my posts were too big for the holes in the “stage” so I had to break out the razor blade and make them fit. Oh, and I ended up needing a cardstock spacer I cut on my Cricut. Not a very reproduce-able design that I’d be proud to share, sorry
I did engrave the front side of the acrylic instead of the back side, normally I’d want the front smooth, but I also engraved the back plate and wanted a little distance between the white engraving of the acrylic and the black engraving on the back plate. The wiring comes in to the hollow middle layer of the stage in the back, up and down through each of the spotlights, then up and around through the heart.
Learned a lot working with this piece, I’m sure lighting and I are not done with each other yet, though I can’t honestly say I’m in a big hurry to try that again. But for all the pain it was, it ended up working out.
Thanks for stopping and taking a look, and until next creation, Happy Forging!