Showing posts with label geocaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geocaching. Show all posts

Berkeley Gadgets Geocaching Shirt (Using Cricut Contour)


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We are headed to WVTim's geotour kick off in Berkely West Virginia this week-end.  This is a geocaching event, geocaching is my husbands favorite hobby.  WVTim's gadget caches are his favorite geocaches.  It's going to be a fun week-end.  But I couldn't let him go in one of the generic geocaching shirt I have made him...  

So I went looking for a logo for the event.  And since the event has a geocoin, there is a logo!  Woohoo!  But the only version I found is very small.   It's being used on websites to promote the tour, and might be what the official geocaching souvenir will look like in our profile once we complete the tour?  

It's not much, but I can work with this.  This is how I took one little thumbnail sized logo and converted it to a 11.5 wide t-shirt decal

First, I saved the image to my computer.  Then I used the windows snipping tool to crop just the logo.




Next I went to https://www.pngtosvg.com/
There are quite a few sites and programs that will do this, but for simple, small, multi color designs like this one, I like pngtosvg best..  You can see a list of alternatives, and examples comparing them, here. For PNGtoSVG, scroll the the bottom of the page and upload your image.  (the ads at the top are confusing!  Scroll past them.)  Then I changed the number of colors to 4.  It turned my red piece yellow, but that's ok, I can change it back in design space.  If I go to 5 colors, it does not add red, it added a light blue I do not want to show.


When the svg is generated, download it, then open design space and upload it.  This uploaded with a white box around the design - making me think I probably should have taken this down to 3 colors - but that is ok. 

In the top right I chose ungroup, then I deleted the white layer. Drag the blue layer to the side, select the yellow layer and duplicate.

Select one of the yellow layers, and on the bottom right, choose contour.  Choose "Hide All Contoursl" so that all of the design is light grey.  Now select just the two shapes on the far right.  You COULD slice this image off , but if you look close at mine, there are extra little lines from the svg conversion.  Using contour deletes all of those little extras that I do not want.

Select the second image, repeat the process, but this time only select the pieces of the birdhouse that  I wanted.  Then I added a dark blue rectangle shape, because I wanted to use a dark blue shirt, and this helps me to see how the colors will look on the shirt.  I added my text, and changed the colors a few times....

Before making the design, I hide the blue rectangle, and select all of the design and flip horizontal.  That's easier for me than remembering to mirror.  


That's it!  It was pretty quick and easy to do, and I love the way the shirt came out!



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Free SVGS For Geocachers

Free SVGS For Geocachers




Quick Links:
Free Geocaching Themed SVGS
The official Geocaching Logos, including a variety of Signal graphics,  are available as EPS & PNG files. There are rules on how they can be used, all listed clearly under the links to download the files.  https://www.geocaching.com/about/logousage.aspx


https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/04/i-use-multi-million-dollar-sattelites.html


Not all who wander are lost - some are just geocaching

If A Tree Falls In The Woods
Does A 5/5 Become A 1/1?
(And Don't forget to select all and attach before making!

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Three Decals
I Brake For Geocaches

 Car Decal
Certified Skirt Lifter

All 3 svgs in one zip file

Download Here

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geocaching.svg







https://lovesvg.com/2018/02/traveller-back-bag-5778/


Some Of My Cricut Geocaching Projects:

 

 


The Center of this is print then cut, the outside lettering is htv
It's held up VERY Well - I've been quite impressed.  :-) 

 
Basically Dan has a shirt for every event and occasion.
On the left is  USA + Shell = Geocaching
See My Shells Cache Across America 2018
ON the right is The Susquehanna River + Satellite = Geo Logo
Susquehanna Geocachers

 
satellite + hiker = Geocaching Logo

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Geocaching Photo Booth Props

For the recent cache carnival challenge, we hosted an event, and included a photo booth. 
Combining Dan's obsession with geocaching, with my obsession with my cricut.  :-) 
Eventually I'd like to use some of these in a super huge ammo can as a photo booth cache.
Below are some of the printable s and props that we used, and tips on how to make them.

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Font for caches found is Moonlight
The two on the left are included in the printables, if you want to print them and glue them fast to the paddles... I'll upload svgs for them as soon as I can.

These are dry erase paddles from the Dollar Tree.  You can find them in the section beside the classroom decorations.  They are great for photo booths!

I Use Million Dollar Satellites To Find Tupperware In The Woods
Free SVG here

The font for these is Obelix Pro

The official bug hunter, and skirt lifter, are in the printable file here:

The Master Cacher & Hat are modified from Cricut Design Space.
I purchased these two files for wedding props, and simply modified them for this event.
See how I made the wedding photo booth props here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/09/making-wedding-photo-booth-props-with.html


The hats, masks, beads and glasses are all from the Dollar Tree.
The hats are from St Patricks Day - I simply added the vinyl geocaching symbol.
The masks the Dollar Tree got in for Mardi Gras. I was fortunate to find a local store that still had some out in April.  



It POURED down rain this day - but we were able to get under roof and still have a really fun event!


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