Wednesday 15 June 2011

Right out of an L. L. Bean catalogue – knock off art

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I fell in love with these latitude and longitude signs from the L. L. Bean catalogue and knew that I could make my own version. I couldn’t figure out how to get the text to curve in Toronto, but that’s a minor detail.
If you would like to make your own, I found a website that allows you to type in your city and state and it will give you the coordinates.  Go to Satellite Signals to get them. How cool is that!

I used vinyl and cut out the lettering with my cricut. The font is Garamond. I really wish I had a better camera because some weird colours are showing up that are NOT on my sign LOL

Here is my inspiration



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18 comments:

  1. that looks awesome, mel! great job! i hadn't seen these before, so it is new to me!

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  2. that's awesome!

    how did you do the letters? vinyl? stenciled?

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  3. That is SO COOL! Cricut?

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  4. love that - would you share the font you used?

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  5. yes ~ i have seen these before and loved them too - great job!!

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  6. There you go with that Cricut! LOL That's really cool.

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  7. That is so cool! I actually like yours better!

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  8. This is so smart...Fall in love with it immediately!!! Must copy too!

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  9. It looks awesome, and looks like we may live 'just down the road' from you.

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  10. I really, really love this!!! Will have to give this one a go =)

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  11. Love this! I enjoyed my visit to your lovely blog. Hugs!

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  12. Oh my goodness Mel....this is fantastic!! I love this idea too. Yours looks almost exactly like the original inspiration.

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  13. That looks fantastic! I need to get back to work just so I can buy a cutting machine!

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  14. I'm book-marking this page right now. This is going to be a fun summer project. Thanks!

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  15. This looks awesome - just another reason why I need a cricut! :)

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  16. Flipping AWESOME! I love it! Gonna do this for sure!

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  17. Awesome! So cute and looks great

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