I Made A White Elephant Gift!
We had a neighborhood Christmas Party last week so I threw together a White Elephant for the gift exchange on my X-Carve CNC machine. I started with a roughly 11″ x 11″ x 3/4″ piece of pine that I keep a stack of for just this kind of situation.
I designed up a quick Elephant in the free Easel software on the Inventables website. You can make a free account using this link and then click here to see the project for full instructions and files on their site.
I then carved out the outline of the elephant and CHRISTMAS above it.
I made it at night after work and it was too cold to use my normal spray paint so I painted it in by hand with acrylic craft paint.
Once that dried overnight I sanded off the excess red and black paint and then added the white to the Elephant.
I gave it 2 coats of polyurethane and added a gift card to the back. It was a great hit!