Wedding Cake Toppers

I love making paper dolls on my cricut. I made this bride and groom for a bridal shower we had for someone at work. I attached the dolls to wooden skewers and stuck them in the cake.

Star Wreath

Saw this at Little Birdie Secrets and had to make it. Was so much easier then I thought it would be. I cut out the stars using the George and Basic Shapes cricut cartridge. I don't have a scoring tool so I just folded my paper stars into shape. I used a needle point circle as the base. A little cardboard, glue, and craft pearls later and this baby was born.

I am so in love with how this turned out. I used some card stock I had left over from the tea party I made for my mom last June. I can see this as a great hostess gift or for someone who has just moved into a new home. Directions are at the Little Birdie Secrets site.

Cricut Fun

I turned around and it was October already. My last post was the middle of September. This time of year is so busy. Soccer, piano, back to school night, Halloween. So much fun. The house is decorated, the costumes are bought, and the pumpkins are at the patch. I love this time of year. I finished a great holiday quilt project but I can't show photos as it is a gift. tay tunred for that one. Tomorrow the kids have school but I am off. I repeat I am off. So I plan to shop and shop, and go to Joann's. I can't wait.

Today we had fun making cricut people. The boys were really patient waiting for there items to cut. And they glued them on by themselves.

A bed without a quilt is like the sky without stars*

I have been wanting to add a wall quote to my sewing room for a long time. I explored purchasing one but it was too expensive. I ordered the removable vinyl months ago but finally got down to doing it this month. I went to my friend Jan's house (she has a Martha Stewart scrap booking room) and used her cricut. She has a larger version then I do and she has a 24" mat. Holy smokes this thing was huge. But it was the perfect way to cut out large items. I used the Storybook Cartridge to make the letters. The quote I found in a quilting catalogue. I looked at tons of quotes but kept coming back to this one. In case anyone thinks this looks easy let me dispel that thought right now. I had to cut each letter out separately. Each letter had to be individually positioned on a line on the wall. Each word had to be measured out so that it was equal distance from the other words. And because I have kids it took me an entire week to get the whole thing up on the wall. The boys actually thought it was neat and kept asking me what it said until we had all memorized the quote by heart. It is a very nice addition to my sewing room and I am very happy with how it looks. I also like the fact that I did the entire thing myself. Little pat on the back for me.

Monogram

I finally got my monogram up on the fireplace. I used the Storybook cricut cartridge. Of course it went on crooked but all of our stuff goes up crooked. It is just the way we do things. If you squint one eye it looks totally straight.

Power Rangers

The boys 5th birthday is tomorrow. I spent the last two days making and frosting 50 cupcakes. Here is a little preview of what the cake will look like. I made all the power rangers using my cricut and the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. That took forever. Then I made two batches of cupcakes last night. This morning we got everything out to start frosting. We wanted to have red icing. But the icing turned out pink. And the more food coloring I added the pinker the frosting got. The boys felt bad and kept telling me it was okay. But I said 5 year old boys cannot have pink frosting on their Power Ranger cupcakes. So we jetted off to the market and got vanilla and chocolate frosting.

Since we had such trouble with the frosting I decided to do a trial run of the cupcake cake. I think it turned out fantastic. I just have to add candles when we do the real thing tomorrow.

To make the Power Ranger

Body - in color of your choice

Boots - Superboy Accessories 1

Gloves - Supergirl Accessories 2

Eyes - Superboy Headwear, make two one larger then the other

Belt - Superboy Blackout, save diamond piece

Mouth - Genie Top, cut off straps

Neck piece - Nativity 1 Tabs

Neck piece diamond - Superboy Blackout, diamond piece

Sword - Prince Accessories 3

Sword crown piece - Prince Headwear

Cricut Butterflies

When I got my Cricut I had heard you could cut fabric using it. But I couldn't get it to work. I finally figured it out. You need to use Heat and Bond Ultrahold and lots of blue painters tape. So I spent an entire night using my Cricut to cut out these fabric butterflies. I then ironed them to a piece of fabric and put them in this frame. This was just a prelude to what inspired this project - this amazing, gorgeous butterfly baby quilt. I don't know when but I am going to make this quit. By the way the adorable Holly Hobby doll in the picture was made by mom when I was a little girl. Every single stitch of her was hand done. And she is still as cute as a button.

Money Jars

I picked up these cute jars at the dollar store. Using some cricut vinyl I made these money jars for my Mother of Multiples Mother's Day Brunch raffle. They came out so cute I may have to make some for myself.

Butterflies

Dug the Cricut out of the closet. I haven't used it since November. I wanted to make some butterfly cutouts to use at gift labels. The boys and I tried a bunch of different color options but in the end I didn't like any of them. The shape is pretty but there wasn't enough room on the back to write what I wanted to write. They are still pretty and it was fun to do this quick project with the boys even though I had to keep one eye trained on each of them. And they were on opposite sides of me.

A Cricut Halloween

I love love Halloween. I love to decorate for it and I love to dress up. Every year I buy new decorations to add to my collection. This year I used the Cricut to make some cute decorations. I used George and Basic Shapes to make the letters. And the shapes were made with SCAL.

This little cat is on my front door.

This spider web is in my guest bathroom. A little spider accompanies it.

This is my chalkboard adorned with black cheese cloth and cute little Halloween shapes. I am still searching for a bat to add to my collection.

Stencil Candles with Recycled Jars

I finally got to work on a project I have wanted to do for a long time. Awhile back I saw a picture of a beautifully decorated night time table that used recycled jars with votive candles. I immediately started saving any glass jar I had; spaghetti jars, relish jars, pickle jars, anything that was glass. Then I heard about the glass etching using the Cricut. I watched a ton of videos on youtube and researched the craft on blogs and websites. First I cleaned all the jars and took off all the paper labels. I used a liquid product that takes off glue adhesive. I then cut out all my words using Cricut vinyl and the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. I then applied the vinyl to the glass. I didn't need to use the painters tape. I just used a tweezers to add all the little parts of the e and a, and any other letter that had a little piece.

You then add the stencil cream. I got mine at Michael's craft store. I bought the smallest bottle which should last a long time (I barely had to use any). You let it dry for about 5 minutes, then wash off the cream with water and towel dry.

Peel off the vinyl and remove all the little pieces and you have a great stencil.

This was hard to capture in the picture. It is not as strong as a stencil that you get from a professional place but it still looks really nice.

Here is the whole set of jars with votive candles.

This is what it looked like when I lit them all. The words actually show up a lot brighter.

I was really happy with how this turned out. It was very easy and came out better then I expected. I definitely plan to do this again. I want to stencil all my husbands beer glasses with his favorite sports team. I also think these jars would make a great hostess gift. There are so many possibilities.

Ahh quilting again.

This past week was so busy I barely had time to sit down at my sewing machine. I felt like I wasn't breathing. Quilting is such a part of my life then when I go too long without it I feel like I am missing air. So today I made sure to schedule some time in. The new quilt I am working on is so pretty that I may just have to keep it for myself. It is coming together very nicely and I am hoping I have the base put together before hubby gets home so I can take it to the fabric store to pick out the border and backing.

I recently purchases a Criciut. I have been coveting this machine for over a year. Every time the infomercial came on I watched it. Even the kids knew what the Cricut was. I am not a scrapbooker so I was having a hard time justifying the purchase. I tried out the Cricut at a friends home and even thought I loved it and it was so much fun to use I just couldn't figure out why I actually needed one. Then it went on sale. And the sale was too good to pass up. So I bought one. I cleared out a shelf in my craft closet and there it sits. I wasn't sure when or for what I would use it next. The other night I saw the infomercial was on and thought I would watch it to get some ideas. Well when I flicked to the channel I couldn't believe my eyes. They were cutting fabric appliques with it. Fabric!! For a Quilt! I never knew the Cricut could do that. Now my purchase is justified.