Vinyl Tumblers and Day 6

Having a crafting day with my favorite girls is so much fun. Of course Kylee slept most of the time and didn't really help much, but Khloë is always a big help. She loves to load and unload the paper in the Cricut. Then she'll push the buttons on the Gypsy to cut our design. She was not a big fan of weeding the vinyl though. It kept getting stuck to her hands so we let Robin do that.

I really like the way these tumblers turned out. We used the Cricut Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge for the font, the Christmas Solutions cartridge for the snowflakes and the Merry and Bright cartridge for the tree.

I think we got about 12 of these done in one evening.  Of course I think the thing that took the most amount of time was deciding on the font. I tend to be very picky about fonts. We wanted a candy striped font, but didn't have one, so this was the next best thing.

As an extra little insert for my December Daily I added this picture of Mike. While I was gone crafting and Christopher was at work Mike got home from golfing and fixed Christopher's tire for him. I guess that means I have to give him his truck back.

Birthday Banner

Todays project is for my niece that will be turning 14 this weekend. I started out making rosettes in her chosen colors of pink and black. I think I made 13 of them. I'm not sure why I made all of the rosettes before I made the other banner pieces. 13 rosettes later and I realize they are not the size I need for my banner. I used Ribbons and Rosettes for the Rosettes.

I cut out the pennants and letters and glued everything together minus the rosettes. I felt guilty for not using the rosettes after all of the hard work and paper that went into them so I used one at each end of the banners and then a grouping of 3 behind the word 'Birthday'.

Here is a close up of the middle section:

For the font I used the Gypsy Font that comes pre-loaded on the Gypsy. I used a Spellbinders die for the scallop circles behind the letters. The pennant pieces for the banner were cut from Birthday Bash. I can't remember which cartridge I used to cut 'Birthday' so I'll have to come back and post that later. I think the scalloped half circle under 'Birthday' was cut using Art Philosophy, but I did have to resize it so that it would be longer and not as tall.