Scrabble Tile Obsessed

I recently saw a picture, through a blog online, that I traced back to DeviantArt (click on the link to see) from an artist called KatherineBaker, who does some lovely art with words.

Anyway, it made me think about scrabble tiles and the cool things that can be done with them. I already have a beautiful scrabble tile ring from my best friend:

If I can get a used game from a charity shop I might have a go at some photo frames or something similar, but for now I just wanted to make some messages with tiles I have made (just slightly rectangular pieces of paper in a similar colour to the tiles). I loved the idea of a nice message, as you rarely get to give a card just telling someone they are great and it seems a bit odd just writing that on the front of a piece of card. By scrabble-izing it, it is a cute but more substantial way of being able to say something like that. I thus started with this card:

Lining them up in fairly neat rows and using nice bright colours made it look nice enough for me. Inside I then went on to write exactly why the message was true and a few things I love about the recipient.
I then extended the theme to a birthday card I had to make for in a few days time. The recipient is a fellow English student so will hopefully like the idea.This is the original with the 'tiles' stuck on. I chose a green background, like the actual board in the game (or at least the version I have):

I had room to put on all the words I wanted to in the end, when originally I was going to stick with a simple 'Happy Birthday'- I like how this has turned out though. One it was dry I drew on lines with black pencil crayon and shaded a few squares in, the colour they would be for triple word scores and so on, making sure I replicated the right pattern. The end result is:

Not too bad if I do say so myself :) Hopefully he will like it as something a little more personal than a shop bought card. I finished the theme off with a nice and cheesy 'I hope you day is a great as a triple word score' written inside, because it simply had to be done.

So, that is my scrabble tile themed evening out of the way for now, but I am sure I will do some more things along these lines in the future, and hopefully using the real thing.