Right This Way Santa!

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Another project the Christmas Gifts in Vinyl SVG Collection from SVGcuts.com. I made several of these. I used a coupon on the wooden arrow at Michael's, so it was a few cents over $5. I think I'll be gifting them.

Home for the Holidays!

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I made this using the Christmas Gifts Vinyl SVG Collection  from SVGcuts.com. I love every project in this set, and will be making them all this year. This was so easy, and fast! I was able to get the chalkboard sign from JoAnns for half price - $2o.

Happy Dog Bowl

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I am going nuts with vinyl, and putting it on everything! This was an image I just stumbled on in the Cricut Library subscription.

Vinyl Silhouette

Vinyl on glass

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I love cutting vinyl on my Cricut Explore! This was a based photo of Colin and Natalie I downloaded from Natalie's Facebook page. After converting it to a silhouette using Stencilgram, I uploaded it to Design Space, cleaned it up, and cut it. I ended up doing it twice because of all the air bubbles. So much of the photo is solid black that is was a tough one. I redid it using the wet transfer method, and had much better results! After drying overnight, the few I did have had vanished. Excuse the glare on the photo of the finished project - I couldn't avoid it.

The original photo I took if from is below.

Sympathy card

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Unfortunately, I had to make a sympathy card.

Birthday Girl!

Party Hat from The Cutting Cafe

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This week's challenge over at The Cutting Cafe was to use the new Party Hats file. This set includes the traditional style cone party hat, and a really cute top hat. Since I had a special seven year old in mind, I chose the traditional style. 

I was determined to use what I had on hand and not run off to the craft store (and run the risk of coming home with even more stuff!). I didn't have any ruffle, but I did have a spool of wide, shiny organza ribbon that even matched. I use a large basting stitch on my sewing machine and turned it into a ruffle and a pom-pom. I noticed after it was assembled that I should have used a smaller circle so more of my rosette would have shown, but I wasn't going to tear it apart and redo it when it still looked cute. 

I am always happy when I can use a challenge project. This little hat went to a birthday party the very next day!

Cutting Cafe Challenge - Letters!

"L"ove is . . . Colin & Natalie!

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Hello everyone!
The Cutting Cafe Design Team assignment this week was to use either a single letter, or a folded letter card from The Cutting Cafe file set called A-Z Shaped Cards (you can find the set here). I knew exactly what letter I wanted - L for Love! My son and his beautiful girlfriend are the perfect example of love, and I wanted to use them as my inspiration.

After making the card, I used one of my favorite photos, turned it black and white, and re-sized it to fit in my card. Perfect! I hope they like it!