Pintrest!!!!

So I have spent the last week completely obsessed with Pintrest.  This online pinboard has given new life to my creative side.  I was feeling very blah and non-creative over the past few weeks and this site has made me happy and crafty again.  LOL 

One idea I saw was using decals to decorate a Kitchen-aid stand mixer.  Well, I have a Cricut and I have vinyl so I can do this!!  The hardest part was deciding what to put on there.  My kitchen is Disney so I considered putting Mickey heads from Mickey and Friends but I wasn't crazy about the space it would take on the mixer.  I really like my red mixer and didn't want to cover it too much.  I also wanted something more swirly.  Then I thumbed through the Disney Princess cartridge books and found this leaf swirl icon in Happily Ever After.  I used my Gypsy to get the sizing right and to flip a few of the swirls.  I cut a few at 3-inches and a few at 2 1/2 -inches.  I also used the transfer tape to help make adhering the vinyl to the mixer an easier process. 

I am very excited about my pretty new mixer and can't wait for everyone to see it on Thanksgiving.

Happy Scrapping!

Parts and Pieces:

Cricut Expression

Cricut Gypsy

White glossy vinyl

Happily Ever After Cricut Cartridge

Thanksgiving Canvas

This project was truly a labor of love.  I loved the look of it and I really wanted to make it but I took many, many wrong steps.  I saw this one on Facebook, Old Cricut Community page, and fell in love with the look.  I proceeded to go out and buy the materials and attempt to crate this beautiful project.  That should teach me to try out new techniques before working on the actual project.

The first type of crackle medium I bought was just not a good one.  I was determined though and went back to Michael's for a different type.  This one was much better!

Then I learned that for bigger cracks, make the topcoat nice and thick, do not skim on the paint.  As luck would have it, I liked the streaks from where the paint had thinned out so it wasn't a total disaster.  When working with crackle medium, you can't go over it again, you will lose the crackle effect.  Once it starts to dry, that is it, you are done. 

Then the biggest lesson of all: practice with vinyl and transfer tape before attempting to work with it on the main project.  It will save you many headaches later.  I ruined two 12x12 sheets of vinyl and one 12x12 sheet of transfer tape learning that lesson. 

I think the only part I did right was sizing the image.  I used my Gypsy to size it to 11x11.  I wanted to have some space at the sides and this way I knew the sizing would look good.

Once I got everything figured out and all lessons learned everything went much smoother.  I am making several of these as gifts and I plan on making some with the Christmas art for gifts as well.

Happy Scrapping!

Parts and Pieces:

12x12 Canvas - from Michael's

Cricut Vinyl - Brown

Cricut Transfer Tape

Word Collage Cricut Cartridge

Crackle Medium - Plaid Folk Art brand worked best for me

Acrylic paint - Mink Tan (Americana brand), Wicker White (Plaid Folk Art brand)

Owl Card

Let the mass production for Christmas gifts begin!!

I truly love my Cricut Imagine.  It has made my gift production so much faster and easier this year.  I can choose an image from a cartridge and have it printed and cut and the entire card finished in a matter of minutes. 

Parts and Pieces:

Cricut Imagine

Imagine More Cards Cricut Imagine cartridge

Stampin' Up! Card stock - Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink

Stampin' Up! Whisper White Craft Ink

My Pink Stamper stamp - from the Punnylicious set

Pinking Hearts Corner punch - Stampin' Up!

Grosgrain ribbon from Walmart

Halloween Word Art

Sorry for the quality of these pictures.  I took them in a hurry with my iPhone.  Most of my blog pictures are taken with my iPhone. It is always handy and easier to upload than with my big camera that has a lot of pictures on the memory card.  I have found that my computer tends to download duplicates of a lot of pictures and I have to spend a lot of time deleting all the extras.  I do not need six copies of the same picture stored on my computer.

OK, enough techno babble.

I know Halloween is over but I have been wanting to make this one for a while.  It was so super easy and inexpensive to create.  My favorite type of projects.  :)

I did this one with the Cricut markers.  I don't use them very often but someone from the Old Cricut Community Facebook Page suggested it and I thought it was a great idea for a simple project like this one.  The cartridge works best with vinyl but that gets expensive sometimes.  I used the Fit to page feature on my Cricut Expression for this and it fit very well.  I did cut the card stock down first so it would fit in the 8x10 frame.  I think if I were to make more of these I would cut the card stock smaller so I could create a mat for the art.  Just to add another color/dimension to the project.

Parts and Pieces:

Word Collage Art Cricut Cartridge

Stampin' Up! Card stock - Pumpkin Pie

Cricut Markers

Orange Peel Stickles

Frame from Target

Making time to craft

These last few weeks have left me with little time to craft, let alone blog.  I have a list of projects a mile long so I am hoping to be able to make time to sit at my craft table and actually get some work done. 

Happy Scrapping everyone!