Phone Case Vinyl

Just recently my old decal on my phone started to fall apart, so I wanted to replace it.  I am a fan of the TV show, "The Walking Dead," and thought I would make something from the show to put on my phone.  What better image than the wings from the back of Daryl Dixon's vest?!  I think it turned out pretty nice.

The wings are a jpeg, that I converted into a cut file in Cricut Design Space.  I cut them twice.  The first was an outline in dark grey, which is a little hard to see against the black phone case.  The second was the insides of the wings in white.  I put the grey outline where I wanted it on the phone, then filled in all the spaces with the white pieces.

Sea Life Wall Art

I mentioned in my post yesterday, that I had been in Washington visiting my friends and their 9 month old baby.  I made a name sign for their son a while back, you can see that here, and gave it to them while we were visiting.  My husband hung the signs up and I decorated the wall next to it with some vinyl cut in sea life inspired shapes.

The name sign was made with "Extreme Fonts" and "Art Nouveau."  For more information, see the original post, here.

Here is a better look at the sea life wall.

The sea weed is from "Life is a Beach."

The fish is from "Four Legged Friends."  I just eliminated a couple of layers and flipped it.

The bubbles are from "A Child's Year."  I flipped them to work with the fish.

The sea weed is from "Word Builders 3: An Ocean of Words."

The fish and bubbles are from "This & That."  This is a Creative Memories cartridge.

The octopus is from "ZooBalloo."

The bubbles on the right are from "A Child's Year."  Like bubbles with the fish, they are flipped.

The bubbles on the left are from "Kate's ABCs."  They are just two of the bubbles in the bubble bath word title.

A Halloween Getup

My latest Halloween craft isn't really a costume, more just some wearable art with a Halloween theme.

I made a t-shirt, a bow tie, and a hat (which can only be worn when attached to a headband).

First the t-shirt:

I used a black t-shirt and some white iron-on vinyl.  I used the "skeleton rib cage" cut file (#14073), by Silhouette, from the Silhouette store for my image.  I cut it at about 11" tall and ironed it on to the t-shirt.

Now the bow tie:

The bow tie was created with some felt and card stock.  The Silhouette store cut file for the bow tie is "3d blood drips with hand bow" and is by Jamie Cripps (#67647).  I cut it without the tails to make it a bow tie.

  The hand in the center of the bow is 3."  The largest part of the bow is about 2" tall and was cut from felt.  The cut file shows the drippy part of the bow cut in red to look like blood, but I went with green to look like slime.

  I covered the green drippy slime with glossy accents and the white part of the skeleton hand with crackle accents.

Finally, the hat:

The hat is made from card stock and a few embellishments I had on hand.  The cut file for this one is called "mourner's 3d top hat," and is by Snapdragon Snippets (#67665).  I re-sized the file a little so the hat wouldn't be quite as large.  This one is about 6" tall when assembled, the original cut file makes the hat about 8" tall.

I made it out of black card stock.  The hat band is from the Bewitched Stack by DCWV.  Both the lime and fuchsia card stock came from the Halloween Countdown Stack, also by DCWV,  I inked up the edges of the hat with some cloud white ink by Tsukineko.

The felt flowers are from Jolee's Boutique and the white brads are from Spare Parts.  I also covered the skull in crackle accents.  There is also a bow for this hat, but I decided not to use it with all the other embellishments I had added.  Now, I just have to attach it to head band so that it can be worn with the rest of the outfit.

I am entering this in the current Stuck On U Sketches die cut challenge, which is to use a top hat, tea cup, tea pot, or an "Alice in Wonderland" theme.  I obviously wen with the top hat.

Ni

I was sitting on my couch today really wanting to make something, but I just didn't have any inspiration.  I have been wanting to add some vinyl to my phone case and my iPad for a while now, but haven't come up with the perfect idea yet, so I started browsing my Cricut cartridges to see if something jumped out.  Well, something jumped out all right, but not for either of those things...it just screamed, "put me on a shirt!"  I couldn't argue, so here it is.

My father introduced me to Monty Python and I have loved it ever since.  I own the whole "Flying Circus" and of course "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and have watched them numerous times.  I came across the chessmen in "Brooklyn Iron-On" and that is what spurred this idea onward.  I did not actually use the knight from "Brooklyn Iron-On," I actually liked the one on "Chess Set" better ("Chess Set" is a digital cartridge).

The knight is just over 4" tall.  The word bubble is from "George and Basic Shapes," and is 2."  I used "Base Camp" for the word "NI," and sized it to fit in the bubble.  When it is all put together it is a little short of being 6" tall and 4" wide.

All Mixed Up - Creation #2

I have been wanting to do this project for a while now and it is part of the reason I selected this cartridge to showcase.  I knew it had a circle font feature and I liked the playful feel to the actual font.  I got the idea for this project on Pinterest, and you can see the pin here.

Here are the onesies I created:

I used Cricut Craft Room to help me create this one.  I used the circle font for all the numbers.  I had to create the 10, 11, and 12 myself.  I did this by taking one of the circle fonts and hiding all the contours within.  I then selected the numbers I needed for each one and placed them in the circle and sized them to fit.  I typed out the word month(s) and placed them below each number.  I then selected the whole thing and sized it to 3 3/4" tall.  It made each of them about 5" wide.  I used three colors of iron-on vinyl to create my onesies.

This one took me a while, but not because it was really all that difficult.  Sizing everything in CCR took a little while, but once it was done the cutting and ironing took relatively little time.  I got most of this put together on Monday.  The only reason it took me a couple of days to make was because I didn't have enough onesies!  I had to pick up some more in order to finish this project.

This is going to be a gift for friends of my husband's and mine.  They are pregnant with their third child, but their first girl.  I thought this would be a great gift for them and I hope they like it.



Animal Antics Creation #10

This is my tenth project from the "Animal Antics" cartridge and I think it will also be my last one.  It is time to start exploring and showcasing another cartridge, now I just have to figure out which one I will play with next.

Anyways, I decided that I needed to use the phrase feature for this project, since I had used every other feature so far.  So, this is what I came up with:

I used the phrase, "Let's Eat," that goes with the vulture cut, it can be found on page 47 of the handbook.  I cut the phrase and all layers at 5" from vinyl.  I adhered the vinyl to a silver charger plate.  I think it would make some nice kitchen or dining room decor.



Animal Antics Creation #7

Since I saw this flamingo I have been wanting to use it because it makes me think of Sherlock Holmes and I am a big fan of Mr. Holmes.  I decided that I wanted to use it on a shirt or onesie rather than as part of a card or scrapbook layout.  So, I used it on a onesie and now that I have seen how it turned out I think I might have to make my own Sherlockian flamingo t-shirt!

The flamingo was cut at 5 1/2" from "Animal Antics."  I used iron-on vinyl and applied it to the onesie and I think it turned out pretty cute.  There isn't too much to say about this one since there isn't much to add to a piece of wearable art.



"Movies" Wall Art

I made this wall art to put in our family room, when we finally finish remodeling our basement.  Our family room is where we have set up our big TV for watching movies, playing video games and where we play board games and stuff like that.

I think I might have to make another piece of wall art for games.  Hmm....something to think about.  Anyways herer is my wall art:

I used the sneak peek that is free to cut this week in Cricut Craft Room of the new font called Extreme Fonts for the word "Movies."  The letters are 6" and I welded them together in Cricut Craft Room and cut it out of gold vinyl.  The film reel is cut from Movie Night at 10."  I cut the film part from black vinyl and the reels in dark grey vinyl and silver vinyl.  I adhered the film reels to the back piece of glass of a float frame.  I then adhered the word "Movies" to the front piece of glass of the float frame.

I put it up on a wall for the picture, but that isn't where it will go in the end.  I have to wait until our remodel is done for that.  :)

I am entering this in BBTB2's. current challenge which is to use a Cricut font.

Perfect Sentiments: "Anything Goes with Christmas"

Who's ready for another Perfect Sentiments challenge?  I hope you are, because I know I am!  Here are the details of this week's challenge.

The challenge: include a Christmas sentiment on your project

The twist: create anything you want as long as it has a Christmas theme and sentiment

Here is what I created for this week's challenge:

I got a gold charger plate at work and decided to dress it up.  I used some white, red holographic, and green holographic vinyl to create the sentiment and images on the plate.  The sentiment is from the Phrases cartridge, cut at 3."  The holly are from A Quilted Christmas and cut at 2."  It is really pretty simple, but I absolutely love the look of that holographic vinyl.

Now it is your turn!  Head on over to The Perfect Sentiment, check out what everyone else has created for even more inspiration and link up your creation.  I can't wait to see what you create!