Happy National Pancake Day!! I know, I know... any excuse to have a holiday! But, I couldn't resist celebrating this one with an appetizer that I found on Pinterest! Check it out at my new site TOPPER IN THE KITCHEN. Don't miss out on the giveaway I have over there either!
Did you see the 'Hello Thursday' cartridges for February!?! There were only three this month, but they are some good ones! Check it out...
Woot woot!! I am so excited about the TBBM2! This one is even better than the first because it come with TWO handbooks! Yep, you heard me... the normal handbook plus another one that is full of instructions on how to assemble the boxes!! Now THAT rocks! I just had to cut one out to play with...
Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have a 'pancakity' day today!
Here are last week's new Cricut Craft Room Exclusives!
BUNNIES AND CHICKS
EASTER BASKET
EASTER BLESSINGS
EASTER MAGIC
HAPPY EASTER
Aren't those awesome!? These cartridges are digital and only available through Cricut Craft Room (click HERE for more information). Cricut Craft Room is a FREE program that you can use physical cartridges that you already own and also allows you to purchase digital packs like the ones above. If you haven't tried it yet, you should! I'm a huge gyspy lover, but I also enjoy using the my large computer screen to design more complex projects and Cricut Craft Room allows me to do that anywhere I have an internet connection!
Seeing these new Easter images really puts me in the mood for spring!! ;-) It's still a little chilly here in Texas, and we are suppose to have rain today... but I'm not complaining! Hope the weather where you are is nice and if it isn't... just stay inside and work on some spring projects!
Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments! I read each and every one of them and appreciate all of your support! I had a wonderful weekend scrapbooking with my scrappy peeps at a new hotel in the DFW area! It will be the new location of some 'Creative Critterz' scrapbooking retreats!
Hmmmm... was that a 'hint' of some of what I've been up to? Well, enough of that, because I have a winner to announce!!
Saundra said...This came out adorable, Tammy! I have yet to cut anything out of vinyl. I have plans to, just haven't found the right phrase. I'm a little afraid of messing it up! :P Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!] ~Saundra Luvscrappingtogether at gmail dot com February 21, 2012 2:58 PM
Congratulations Saundra! You just won the STENCIL PROJECT CRICUT CARTRIDGE! Please email your address to me at cc.ladybug@yahoo.com and don't be afraid of vinyl! It's forgiveable and will peel off if you mess it up! ;-)
I am so excited to start revealing some of what's been keeping me busy! You know that I love all things crafty and creative, I've shared my creativity with you for FOUR years now! In celebration of my four years as a blogger, I've kicked it up a notch! I am now bringing you what I call 'crafty cooking' with a new blog called TOPPER IN THE KITCHEN!
You might ask, "Who is Topper?"... well, that's ME! I'm using an old nickname to market a series of sites designed to educate and inspire in a creative and crafty way! Check out my first post HERE! It's a fun, easy way to make corndogs that are baked, not fried and totally full of flavor! So, come get crafty with me in the kitchen!
Don't worry, I won't be neglecting this site! I have some fun craftiness for you tomorrow that you are sure to love! Don't forget that I'm also giving away the STENCIL Project Cricut Cartridge this week! I will draw the winner tomorrow night and announce it on Saturday!
I am so excited to share this special project with you! My daughter, Samantha and I traveled to Memphis, Tennessee last week to spend some time with family. My cousins, Jes & Jonny are expecting. So while we were there we helped decorate my cousin's nursery as our gift to her and the baby. Her due date is February 24th so we are currently on 'baby watch'!
Our supplies for this project were very affordable:
I used brown vinyl and cut everything with a 12x12 cricut mat on my Cricut Expression 2. Abigail's name was cut with the font from BABY STEPS Cricut Cartridge at 10". Thanks to my gypsy, I was able to position all the letters on just 2 pieces of 12x12 vinyl. I then cut them out with my scissors and laid them out on the dining room table.
It was helpful that the table had lines on it, so I just used those to line my letters up. You can also use a yardstick or just the edge of a table to make sure you transfer the name/word straight.
I just 'eyeballed' the spacing between the letters, but you could use a ruler if you want to be exact. To keep the letters from moving around, I used a small piece of scotch tape to hold them in place.
The transfer tape comes in 12x24" pieces and there are two sheets in each pack. Abigail's name measured approximately 40" long, so I used both pieces of transfer tape.
To do this, all you need to do is overlap the transfer tape.
My font was cut at 10" and my transfer tape is 12" tall... but I still had a few letters go above and below the lines.
No worries though... just take a scrap piece of transfer tape and overlap it to extend over the letter.
Don't forget to burnish the entire thing with the provided popsicle stick or bone folder.
Gently peel the transfer tape back.
Ta da! Ready to apply it to the wall... except, did anyone notice that I misspelled her name? Yikes! I left out the second 'i'! Good thing I noticed before applying it to the wall, but even if I hadn't, vinyl is removeable... so it is still fixable.
Using either your gypsy or Cricut Craft Room will allow you to get the most out of the vinyl you are using. I was able to cut 112 leaves out of only 8 pieces of 12x12 vinyl.
We layered pink vinyl leaves over the brown vinyl leaf shadows (PLANTIN SCHOOLBOOK). Normally I would be OCD about the leaves being green, but because the nursery colors are these pretty pastels with a brown and white base... the pink leaves looked awesome!
(Cousin Mandy helped with this part! That was alot of leaves!)
Here is the nursery BEFORE...
I could have cut my tree trunk and branches out of vinyl too and pieced them together to make the whole thing. But it was way easier and less expensive to just purchase brown paint and paint the tree onto the wall. Samantha and I free-handed the outline of the tree with a pencil and then started painting.
Just remember to keep you strokes going all in the same direction.
Here is our completed project!
I was inspired when I found this project on PINTEREST. It was originally hand painted by a lady named Sharon Kuplack who owns 'Whimsical Walls". Talk about talented! Oh, my gosh! I truly enjoyed browsing her website and would recommend her to anyone. Of course, she lives in Wisconsin and is not readily available to everyone, but I truly appreciate the inspiration she gave me!
Let's start this week out right with a giveaway! I have another STENCIL Project Cricut Cartridge to giveaway!! Leave a comment and tell me if you have tried cutting vinyl for your walls yet!
First let me apologize for the extreme delay in my giveaway and take care of that immediately:
The winner of the CRICUT STENCIL CARTRIDGE is:
The Fillhard's said... There are some nice cartridges this month. I really like the baby shower one, a lot of it can be used for more than baby things. I also like the new Font Candy, looks like a lot a great new and different fonts. The Imagine card cartridges also looks great. Thanks for the chance to win the Stencil cartridge, I really need this for my daughters room that we are going to redo soon. Christi fillhardfarm at ymail dot com January 20, 2012 5:49 AM
CONGRATS Christi!! Please email me at cc.ladybug@yahoo.com with your mailing address.
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