A Little Fun with Vinyl

I've been making t-shirts again. Nothing fancy because my son is picky and you know, he's a guy! Just kidding. He's entered in a race this weekend and to show support I made t-shirts for myself, daughter-n-law and two grand-daughters.

This is the front of the shirts for me and daughter-n-law.

This is the back.

The shirt for Khloë.

Shirt (onesie) for Kylee.

And because I was having so much fun I made a shirt with my son's company name on it.

I'm having a lot of fun with my new Explore. It's so nice to be able to use any font on my computer. I'll be back after the race to share pictures.

Minnie Mouse Decorations Cont.

I found these close-up pictures of the Minnie Mouse decorations and gifts so I thought I would share.

This first Minnie Mouse was hanging out at the food table. She was cut as large as I could to fit her on a 12x24 mat using the Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridge.

Another large Minnie Mouse cut to fit a 12x24 mat. She was put on a stick and was holding some balloons in the front yard to greet guests to the party.

After the party my little grand-daughter wanted to keep her decorations so they went up on the wall in her bedroom.

A close-up of the cups before the polka dots were added.

I think the dots make them so much cuter. The boys got red and black. The girls got pink and black. Khloë got a special cup with a pink band around it.

I have a few more pictures of the name tags for the food, but I still have to get them on the computer. I'll be back with those later.

Minnie Mouse Birthday Party

Happy Birthday to my first born Grand-daughter Khloë. She turns 3 years old in two days. Her birthday party was on Sunday and afterwards she proclaimed: "I want my party again!" I guess it was a hit and she had a good time.

Khloë helped me put Minnie Mouse out front to greet her guests.

At the front door guests were greeted with a Minnie Mouse rug and a door hanging that announced Khloë's 3rd Birthday.

Inside there were banners .

 

Another picture of her birthday banner.

Another large Minnie Mouse hanging out by the food.

A cake for the Birthday Girl.

Tumblers for each of the kids with their names in vinyl. Mouse ears made with felt and goodie bags.

A large Minnie Mouse photo prop for all the kiddos. This was a lot of fun and I found the kids all asking to take their pictures. A special thanks to my friend Scrapalette at http://scrapalette.blogspot.com/2013/11/chalkboard-name-cards.html for the idea. She had a big Cricut cut out for a photo prop at the Cricut Circle Mania in Georgia.

We also had Christmas bulbs decorated with the names of the kids in vinyl that they were able to decorate on the inside.

One last picture (for now). Me and 2nd Grand-daughter Kylee.

We also made food labels and a few other banners. I'll have to see if I got any pictures of those.

Vinyl Project

A little break from Minnie Mouse. Over the weekend (yes, it took a weekend) my daughter in law and I worked on a vinyl project for her and my son's room. It's a quote she found on Pinterest.

Although it took a long time to decide on the fonts (Plantin Schoolbook and Quarternote) and the sizes (4" & 5" respectively) it was worth it. I love the way it turned out.

I closer picture.

Painting, Swimming and Crafting

Busy busy weekend. Right after work on Friday I went to a friends house to help with some party favors. After that I went to my son and daughter-in-laws house to help paint and cut vinyl for the baby's room.
We cut out the baby's name and some butterflies for the walls, but first we had to paint.

After painting we had to put the vinyl on the Cricut mat for cutting.

Push the load paper button to load the vinyl into the Cricut.

 Design the cuts on the Gypsy.

Concentration.

And then you add the vinyl to the wall.

 On the opposite wall we added butterflies, from dark to light, going up the wall.

After all the hard work it's time for some swimming.

I hope you all had a good weekend and spent some time doing what you love.

 

Vinyl Polka Dots

Another vinyl project today. My daughter in law painted Khloë's room pink last week and on Saturday we added vinyl dots that I cut from my Cricut.

I cut the dots using George and Basic Shapes at 5.5". I didn't have enough vinyl to cut out her name so we used paper until the vinyl comes in. We taped it to the wall so we could place the dots and leave room for her name. The K and the C were cut using Tie The Knot. The other letters were cut using Quarter Note. I'll update the picture when we get the vinyl cut and put on the wall.

 

Here's an updated picture with the pink vinyl on the wall. (after taking the picture we noticed the dot over the n instead of the i where it's supposed to be. It's fixed now) lol.

 

 

Khloë loves it. This is a picture of her in her room with the big ol' teddy bear we gave her when she was born.

Garage Princess and Co-Driver

I thought I would take a little break from the purple layouts and share a couple of t-shirts I made for my grand-daughter. I used my Cricut and cut out heat transfer vinyl to create these.

These are pictures I took before everything was ironed on.

You can see driver is a little crooked. Don't worry, I straightened it out before I did the ironing. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture afterwards.

Here are a couple of pictures after with Khloë modeling, but it's quite difficult to get a 2 year old to stay still long enough to get a good picture.

Crawling is for Babies!

Hello friends. It has been one busy week and I haven't had a chance to post anything I've been working on. We've had graduations, birthdays and races this week. All of which needed my ever faithful Cricut.

My older son, Michael, had his first Rock Crawling Race on Saturday. It was extremely hot. When we got back to town for a late lunch it was 112 degrees, but I'm sure it was hotter than that during the race. My son wanted Khloë to have a special shirt for the occasion, so this is what I came up with. I used Quarter Note and Life's A Beach for the font.

I also cut vinyl for the numbers on my Son's jeep.

All suited up and ready to 'Crawl'.

Michael and Khloë after the race. She's very proud of her Daddy.