Popular Post heppnerguy Posted February 11, 2023 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 (edited) I made this for a couple of Nieces who's mother recently passed away at 95 years old. She was married to my wife's brother who died about 55 years ago and several years later she remarried. My wife and I saw her only a few times since my wife's brother was killed so we really do not have much of a connection with her. We do keep in pretty close contact with the daughters and when she passed I made one of these plaque for each of them.. I modified the plaques a little and got them into the mail yesterday. They will be receiving them on Monday. These are patterns by Sue Mey and like I said, I did modify them a little. Dick heppnerguy Edited February 11, 2023 by heppnerguy Tbow388, JackJones, Matt B and 10 others 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flarud Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 That is a really good looking piece, well done! heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappile Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Beautiful! Nice work, Dick. heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Johnson Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Well done Dick heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamieline Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Well done and very thoughtful. heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 great job heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meflick Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Beautiful work on them and I am sure they will be appreciated. Very thoughtful gifts. heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 19 hours ago, flarud said: That is a really good looking piece, well done! Thank you for the encouragement Dick heppnerguy 7 hours ago, meflick said: Beautiful work on them and I am sure they will be appreciated. Very thoughtful gifts. I always try to make some sort of memorial plaque for someone that looses a loved one. They seem to mean a lot to the person who gets them Dick heppnerguy meflick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 9 hours ago, daveww1 said: great job thank you. I truly appreciate you taking time to make this comment to me. Dick heppnerguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak0ta52 Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 Those are some very clean cuts, Dick. As usual, you did an awesome job. heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 A loving tribute. Excellent work Dick. Marg heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUTOMILE Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 Beautiful work! heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatgrandpawrichard Posted February 13, 2023 Report Share Posted February 13, 2023 Absolutely Beautiful Plaque! Exquisitely Done! Dick heppnerguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 On 2/11/2023 at 8:43 AM, meflick said: Beautiful work on them and I am sure they will be appreciated. Very thoughtful gifts. I am also in the process today of making two more for my grandson's wife and her family as her brother died unexpectedly. Hope to get them in the mail later today. Dick heppnerguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 On 2/11/2023 at 7:27 PM, Dak0ta52 said: Those are some very clean cuts, Dick. As usual, you did an awesome job. things are getting a little more difficult as I get older. I am hoping I will be able to scroll until I get close to my end time, which can't be too far off. I only wish I would have started my scrolling a little earlier in life instead of waiting until I retired in 2002. I may have been able to do a little better then. Thanks for the encouragement as it is much appreciated Dick heppnerguy Greatgrandpawrichard and Dak0ta52 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 On 2/12/2023 at 11:05 PM, Greatgrandpawrichard said: Absolutely Beautiful Plaque! Exquisitely Done! Dick Thank you so much for the nice comments. I hope the receiver enjoys it as much as I did making it for them. Dick heppnerguy Greatgrandpawrichard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdatelle Posted February 24, 2023 Report Share Posted February 24, 2023 I like that one Dick. I just made a couple plaques for my nieces who's mom just passed away. I like that one though. How do you get the name under it. Nice touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, rdatelle said: I like that one Dick. I just made a couple plaques for my nieces who's mom just passed away. I like that one though. How do you get the name under it. Nice touch. The pattern had the flag where the name went, also included another banner flag,(for use of another word). where it is set up for the birth and death dates. I discovered once I had both the name and the date cut out and ready to send, that I have the identical year of birth and death. Luckily I showed it to my grand daughter, over the phone, and she caught my mistake. I had originally extended the backer board around the entire piece and I was unable to cut off the bottom flag, containing the error so I proceeded to cut the extended part of the backer board to be so it matched the pattern board. This caused me to cut off both flags but leaving the extension part remaining. I then glued the flag onto the extension, as it is easily seen in the photo. The second one I merely cut the space between the main pattern and the closest name flag, followed by then cutting the extended backer board and was able to leave the flag intact, not needing to glue it on. It looked better but I thought of doing it that way too late for the first one. As far as how I cut the name into the flag part, I just typed out the letters for the name and glued them onto the pattern and cut them as such. Dick heppnerguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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