Laundry Door Vinyl

I just bought some vinyl from Stampin' Up!, it is about $12 per color and you get 2 sheets of 14 by 24. Also right now if you buy $50 from SU you get a free stamp set! The vinyl is Oracle (same brand as Cricut vinyl) and it comes with transfer paper. Personally I found using that I like clear contact paper better than transfer paper, but that's just a personal preference (I like to see through it). This was done with DS using Storybook letters and shapes from Home Accents. I cut the base with Kraft color vinyl, the the letters and vines (top layer) in Celery. Thanks for looking!

Coffee cup Valentines Day card and SCUT2 file

Here is a quick coffee cup and steam swirls I did in Illustrator (I'm taking Illustrator 101). I needed a cup to go with the background stamp. My friend had this coffee background stamp in her "get rid of" pile but I really like it so I thought I'd borrow it before she gets rid of it. This will be a Valentines Day card for a friend. The cup file is below. Thanks for looking!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mt2yejvmo0d/PSI_trendycoffee.scut2

Creating a Faux Glass Mosaic Card with your Cricut

There are just a ton of free stencil type images available for use with your SCAL and cricut. For paper piecing, these images don't work well, but for creating a faux glass mosaic, they are perfect. This image was from the free font wwspringtime which has a BUNCH that will work with this technique. If your a stamper, you've probably done something similar with stamped/embossed images (its is one of my long time favorite techniques), if not...here's how:

1. Cut you stencil type image with your cricut and trim to size.

2. Flip your image over and attach a piece of velum paper over the cutout image.

3. Color the open areas of the image, you don't need to be neat about it, errors will not show (that's why its my favorite, see photo below)

4. Mat your image - different colors of mat will change the look, just experiment until you have the look you like.

5. Mount to card and embellish.

This is the back side before adding a mat, you can see you do NOT need to be very careful with the coloring .

LOVE : recycling those stamp blocks!

I've started unmounting my stamps to save some room. The problem is that I can't bare to throw away perfectly good blocks. So, I guess I didn't really save any room, just rearranged a bit. Here are some I did yesterday to set out for Valentines. For my unmounting I'm zapping the stamps in the microwave for about 12 seconds, pealing off the rubber/foam, pealing the sticker, putting the sticker onto the foam, then putting a thin coat of Aleens tack it over and over on the sticker and storing in cd cases. Not perfect, but Aleens at Micheals is about $3 with a coupon and the sheets of cling are about that for one 8x11 sheet (plus shipping). There are a ton of different ways to do this, but this seems to work the best for me. This leaves a sticky block, which you can sand, or just add paper :) I used Storybook and vinyl for the letters.

Before

unmounted, adding a layer of glue

Into a cd case

Kindergarten Cuties Scrap Page

I wanted to do a scrap page and use some of the new loopy stuff I've been working on. This is my boys heading to thier first day of Kindergarten. Final size is 8 by 8. Thanks for looking.

Feeling loopy - loopy border and frame svg

I have 2 free svgs to give away today, one is a loopy border (12 by .5 inch for scrapping) and one is a loopy circle frame. The frame I used on the card above cut at like 3.75 inches. The gift is from the Joys of the Season (cut at 1.5 inches).

loopy circle frame

Loopy border

Altered Clipboard

Heres a quick and fun gift for your favorite teacher...an altered clipboard. Start with a $1 clipboard, paint it with acrylic paint, cover with some designer paper, and add a name and some ribbon and voila (seriously, this is a quick and inexpensive gift that will impress your friends)!

I used Stampin Up! paper, which I attached with my ATG gun (you can also use Modge Podge), added whatever ribbon I could find to match, then cut the name from vinyl (amazing that I had vinyl that was a perfect color match to the paper!). I sanded the edges to get around the corners and for the top piece I just cut out a rectange from the paper, the ribbon hides most of it, and if you've painted the clipboard first, nobody will see its not a perfect fit. This is a gift for my friends birthday :) Hope she likes it, thanks for looking!