A few of my friends and I threw a bridal shower for a very deserving, super awesome friend. It was a lingerie themed shower and I thought it would be a good idea to send around a little jar for people to donate money to the happy couple for their honeymoon. I found a piggy bank at Wal-Mart (phew...I wasn't quite sure who would have one!), but it said "my first piggy bank" on the side, so I had to cover it with vinyl. I tried to make the little piggy look sexy and feminine with a few pearls and some red tulle.
I love this plate above. My sister Michelle designed it. It's such a beautiful holiday decoration with a wonderful saying to bring the Spirit of Christmas to your home. Although I've categorized this in with the gifts, I'm keeping mine! The plate was only $2.50 at Tai Pan Trading. The font is Civitype.
This is another Michelle design. Such a fun, cute idea for families with little children. I'll be keeping one of these as well! The font is Disney and the cut file for the Santa head, well, is Michelle's. Maybe she'll share? But of course you can put in any Christmas doodlebat.
I really like this gift above for couples, teachers, neighbors, etc. Really, any woman would be happy to get one of these! Including myself...you guessed it. I'll be keeping one of these as well. I can't help it - I'm a selfish being! This is a Mindy idea. The tag on these are going to say, "You're gettin' muffin for Christmas!" Inside are some spatulas and I'll be putting in muffin mixes as well. So cute! Thanks Mindy! Here is the cut file for the trees.
Plus, there's a bunch of cut files for halloweenie stuff that I have on the house. We're using it now as a house that our kids Grandma haunts at night and brings them fun Halloween candies and toys. It's been really fun and helps my kids get excited for Halloween.
Want to make it too? Here's how:
After it is cut out, just remove the portions that are dotted to show where to cut. You will only need to add some extra on the house on one side to connect the house together. You will trace the large house part twice, lining up the bottoms and sides to become one piece. Keep the excess piece that you see on the left side of the house for one of the traces in order to connect the house together. You can see by the picture below how you are going to connect the house. I used packing tape on the inside to hold it together, then used hot glue on the other side of the box to really hold it in place.
After the house portion was put together, I cut the roof out. In order for the roof to stay well on top of the house, I needed to cut out a portion of the innards of the cardboard as below. The line is down the middle of the roof that is to be bent and makes the highline of the roof. I used the box cutter and cut a little ways out on both sides and then gutted it.
I thought it was a fun alternative to the one phrase tiles. I also like that every font I used on this file was FREE! I've included the cut file...open it up and click on the words...it'll tell you in one of the windows what font it is if you don't have it already! Then download for free on the net! One of my favorites is Aquarelle...a free version of Passions Conflict. Such a beautiful font (Family, Prayer words).
My sister Mindy (the same one who makes the incredible cakes) made this rag quilt with matching diaper bag. Isn't it so cute!? You really need to see the bag up close to fully appreciate it. Not only were the colors amazing, but it had pockets and closure and everything. Uh-mazing!
And then of course, there's my sister Michelle. She's always been a great seamstress, but I think she outdid herself this time. I mean, seriously? Monkeys, trees, dots, etc. I love this! I'm stealing it, Tiffany...do you hear me?
She also made this really cute naughty stool. Is that an oxy moron? At any rate, I loved this too. She made the little stick figures. I think she drew them by hand and then put them into the computer to cut them out with her cricut.
And then there's me. My other sister and I went in on a couple of baskets. This is one of them...a bath basket. Totally useful, but not very creative. :( Though I did spray paint the two baskets white so they matched. Kudos, Melinda.
A little something unique...plus it fits. We've got our own little army now.
Isn't he such a sweet little man?!
The purple and silver one I made for my SIL. The one below is the one I made for my family...with room to grow! (And, yes, I know that my wall REALLY needs to be painted!)
I used black jack for the names and Birmingham for the Chores header. The board was 8 x 24 for my SIL and 8 x 36 for me. I made the squares 3 x 3 inches and hard laminated them. Hopefully this works!
I made some vinyl letters that I needed to use up as part of my goal to cut down my vast supply of crafting items. So I decided to make this cute little chicken for the vinyl words. Hope somebody else can use this too!!
I found this flower cut file quite a long time ago. I got it at a french website...so I basically had no idea what I was looking at until I got to the page. I thought it was a cute little cut. It's called fleur folle. I do know that fleur means flower, but I don't know what folle is.
Ok, just one more. I had this vinyl cut out for forever and was just waiting for my dh to cut me some more of his scrap wood. I love this skull! I got it from scrapnfonts.com...again. It's in a doodlebat font called DB Fright Night that usually costs $3...BUT they're having a huge doodlebat sale right now! Oh man do I love those!! So, right now it's only $1! (And, no, they are not paying me to advertise!) The scroll also came from that doodlebat set and the font is called Fiddums Family (free on the net). I haven't decided if I want to put all three of the Halloween signs I made on a single post one on top of the other, or if I want to put each one on a different stake and stagger them along our walkway. Hmmmmm.
Hooray! I still can't believe I won this! I got it from the BBTB blog hop, specifically Susan's blog! Thanks Susan!!! And check out the card...hello, gorgeous!!! Are those nestabilities for the birds, does anyone know? I'm in love with this card...I might frame it!
OK, now that I've had my fun, it's time to get down to business. I've always wanted to make a sucker bouquet! I've seen them on the Cricut MB and thought it would be a fun gift for the old timers I know. Well, we finally got invited to a birthday for a good age. :) So here it is!
My husband had previously bought some vinyl lettering for his work truck a number of years ago (before we had the cricut). Unfortunately, our truck was the recipient of some vandalism about two years ago and he had to get the truck repainted...there went the vinyl. It cost him like $50 to get it on the two sides of the truck.
A friend in my ward asked if I could do some vinyl for a tile she wanted to give to her brother and new-to-be SIL. She gave me their wedding invitation, the tile, and the words she wanted said, and this is what I came up with.
On the scal forum, lil5firecracker5 submitted a picture of bella and edward together and offered a svg file that was basically a bitmap of the picture that really needed to be cleaned up and asked for some help (because they had already worked on three others that turned out great!). So, I decided to take up the challenge!!! Here is the outcome!
This is a jar that I got for Christmas. It was filled with pieces of paper that gave topics, songs, and scriptures to go with a theme for each week of the year for Family Home Evening (a night where the family gets together and has a gospel lesson and activity). I loved it! But I kept getting asked what it was (it was on my console table in my front room), so I busted out my vinyl, some ribbon, and a tag to get the questions to stop! Nobody has to ask anymore, and it's a cute way to decorate a table!
