Robot with Balloon Sweatshirt

I don’t know about you, but it’s always a challenge for me to find blank clothing items for my son to decorate.  I love adding my own touch to his clothing, but find it cheaper to buy clearance items….that already has a truck or saying on it.  So, when I found this blank sweatshirt for $6 something at Target a few weeks ago, I snatched it up.  He wore it blank for awhile, until I finally decided to slap on some heat transfer vinyl.

I’ve worked with heat transfer a few times, and have always had a really hard time getting it to stick.  This time, I used a mini ironing board that I had been given recently, and set it on the floor.  This way, I could put all my weight into the iron, and I found that it worked really well!  I got my vinyl from expressions vinyl, and it is their easyweed.

I wanted something that didn’t involve lots of thinking, something I could slap on and be done.  So, a robot holding a balloon was of course in order! I did have to free draw the string to make it long enough for the robot, but it wasn’t hard.

My son is enjoying his new sweatshirt, and I’m loving the fact that this was a quick project that I did during the last few minutes of nap time!

Thanks for hopping over,

~Lynette

Halloween Home Decor

My favorite part of this artwork is the two witches visiting at the top!  The witches were actually a border, but it was too busy for my taste after I made the cut.. I decided to cut them apart and let them ‘fly,’ all over the page.  I love how it turned out!

Hello everybody!  I guess I should have named this blog, “The Lucky Quarter,” since I’m lucky if I get a post up during each quarter of the year. :)  I like to keep my seasonal décor simple and cheap, so this year I simply grabbed some orange scrapbook paper and some vinyl and cut out some free shapes I had laying around. 

Details about the shapes (skip if you’d like):

These are all by Miss Kate Cuttables.  I upgraded to the silhouette studio designer edition for my Birthday in June, and have learned about a whole bunch of places I can get free svg files.  That’s one of the biggest perks of the designer studio-is being able to use svgs.  Miss Kate releases a new free shape each day, and she usually does ones for upcoming holidays.  This year I got probably 25+ of just Halloween files—and they are in the silhouette online store but I scored them for free! :)  If I think of all the free shapes I’ve gotten this year, the designer edition has more than paid for itself (I bought it from Miss Kate for around $30, and then got $10 in free shapes from her store for buying it through her! yay)

Just a spooky night.  I have plans to add a haunted house to the picture for next year.  I mixed and matched several sets of images for the artwork.

Thanks for reading, and have a Happy Halloween!!!

~Lynette~

Silhouette Shape Challenge: Stenciled Whale Bag

Hi everybody!  I was making this tote last night because my current church bag is seriously falling apart!  I saw this bag on MADE, and loved it.  I found the very same napkin sets at Target in a blue/green variety.  I also picked up the red pack, but that tote is still in progress…well I made it, picked it apart, and am waiting to re make it. :)
Enough chit chat----onto the finished bag!

Front before stenciling

Back of bag

I decided that the blue side would be super cute with the free whale shape from last week, and then I could enter the weekly challenge!  I fired up my silhouette this morning, applied a vinyl stencil…

Quickly painted (and even left a mess on the desk!)

Used a hair dryer to quickly semi-dry the paint, peeled off the vinyl, and Tada!

A super cute whale on a super cute bag.

I would have hung it up to get a photo, but it’s still drying! 

I used a swirl shape by Miss Kate for the waves instead of the included waves.  Overall, I love the bag and will soon fill it with all sorts of busy activities for my one year old at church!

Thanks for reading!

~Lynette~

p.s. I’m also participating in a challenge with the blog Silhouette Challenges.  Anything goes this month, so enter if you’ve made something with your silhouette! Details HERE.

Making it Ours: Love at Home Tiles

 

Thanks for joining me today for another post of the ongoing “Making it ours,” series.  I’m enjoying sharing the large and small projects we’re doing in our home to make it feel like ours. Enjoy!

I started and finished this well before Dash was born.  I finally got it hung last week.   I had bought three mdf tile pictures for $2 each from family dollar.  They were beach themed with large fake seashells glued to them.  It worked for a cheap apartment bathroom makeover, but I am done with beach bathrooms.  So I asked my husband if he could remove the shells and I would reuse the tiles.  And that’s what I did.

Above is what they looked like after the shells were removed.  (Yes, I got ahead of myself and forgot a real before pic).

I sanded the beach themed stuff (which was actulaly paper glued on), and painted them a brown I ahd left over from a previous project.

I got the idea for the ‘love at home,’ from this guest post by Craft-O-Maniac on Tatertots and Jello.  I cut out the shapes with my silhouette.  I slapped the vinyl on, and I was done!

I hung it in my family room next to probably my most favorite vinyl project I’ve ever done.  I will get that posted later this week, don’t you worry.  I love the personal feel my home is finally taking after a year of being here.  It’s starting to feel like ours.

Thanks for reading!

~Lynette~

Making it ours: Kitchen Wall Art

Welcome to another post of the ongoing series ‘Making it Ours.’  My husband and I bought our home about a year ago, and this series tracks our progress to make our home feel like ours.  Some projects and simple like artwork, while others are a full remodel of rooms.  Enjoy!

As my baby has been getting older and more content to play, I’ve had a limited amount of time to finish up some quick crafts.  I have several things photographed and ready to show you.  I am finally getting some artwork on the bare walls in my home.

I started these canvases months ago.  I had two of them done, and one still blank right before dash was born.  I decided to go ahead and hang them up, and once I had a chance I could apply the vinyl to the third one.  So for the first two months of Dash’s life, we had the two outer canvases complete with a blank one in the middle. :)

I designed the canvas on the left on my own, designed the salt and pepper shakers (still missing the red ‘s’ and ‘p’ labels) in the silhouette software, and then used inspiration from pinterest to make the canvas on the right.

 

Close up of the ‘Eat’ sign

Close up of the Salt and Pepper Shakers

Close up of the ‘Happiness is Homemade’ sign

I absolutely love the Eat sign.  I think it’s my favorite because it’s my original design and it’s a little unique.  My kitchen is getting closer to feeling like mine, and it’s fantastic!

Thanks for reading,

~Lynette

Making It Ours: Laundry Room Sign

*Making it ours is my simple series where I feature some of my projects to make our new home feel more like ours.  Some projects will be simple décor, while others will be major remodel type projects.*

Hi everybody!  I needed a breath of fresh air from maternity/baby stuff today, so here’s a simple project I did with some firewood (literally-but it’s for decent stuff because we get it from a business who throws their crates out for grabs), some paint, and some vinyl from my silhouette.

I had fun coming up with my other laundry room sign, but for this one, I struggled.  I didn’t have a big enough board for the saying I really wanted to use, so I went with an unoriginal “Laundry Room,” sign.  Boring, yes, but I still love how it turned out.  I got the hanger image from Microsoft Word, and imported it into the silhouette software.

Well, that’s all I’ve got today!  Hope you’re having a great day.  It’s raining today.  I busted out my purple paint and added a 2nd coat to one of the sides of my craft room door.  I was in the first trimester yucky stage when I first painted, so I finished it up now that smells don’t bother me. :)  I also painted something else purple, and will show you in the upcoming days/weeks!

Thanks so much for reading!

~Lynette~

Embellished Laptop

Hi there!  I hope you’re having a great day.   My morning started out with tears of frustration, but that’s normal for this pregnant self of mine.  I got busy cleaning my home, got dressed and put on some makeup, and I’m feeling much better.  I have a few dishes to do, and then I’ll be running some errands this afternoon.

I just wanted to pop in real quick and share with you a fun little project I did with vinyl and my silhouette.  I simply found this shape in the silhouette online store, and cut it out on white vinyl.  Super easy, and now my computer feels like she fits in with my fresh craft room.  She was already purple, so she really fits now! :)

I got the idea from this project Ashley over at Make it and Love it.  I’m really happy with how it turned out.  I think I would have liked a trim or something better, but it’s still super cute!

Thanks for reading!  Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you all Monday.

~Lynette~

Making it Ours: Clothesline Sign

**My husband and I have been living in our house about 5 months.  I’ve gotten a few pictures and things put up, but now that we’re in a home there are more walls to cover.  I’ve got some major ideas of paint and wainscoting, but that probably won’t be in the budget for a few years (and then we’ll see what’s in style then).  So until then, I’m working on decorating my home with inexpensive or free means.  We’ve also done some bigger things that I am dying to share with you.  So this is the first of an ongoing series I’m calling “Making it Ours.”  (I guess you could count my craft room too!) Some of the projects will be stuff to hang on our bare walls, and others will be major remodels such as paint and tile. I hope you enjoy the series!**
Since getting my Silhouette Cameo, I’ve been wanting to try vinyl.  This is one of my first projects.  My laundry room is more of a hallway from the backdoor to the kitchen, and it very functional.  It is equipped with a washing sink, and I LOVE it.  It needs a good razor blade scraping and then maybe I will show it to you.  My husband is a mechanic so I am always washing dirt and grease out of things.  The room is quite dark, so I needed something cheerful.

I had gotten the plaque from DI a couple years ago, painted over the design with a light cream (which totally didn’t work by the way), and left it.  I had a few ideas, but without a vinyl cutter I really couldn’t do any of them.  So this got a quick  2 coats of ocean breeze acrylic paint, and a cute vinyl cutout slapped onto it.  I imported the image from Microsoft Word’s clipart.  Cheri’s tutorial on how to import images was very helpful (it’s the 3rd video in the post).  The only thing I did different was copy my image into paint and saved it as a jpg to my desktop.  Then I followed the rest of her instructions to make it a cuttable image.
I’ve made one other thing for my laundry room that I have ready to share later in the week.  It makes the laundry room a little more cheery. :)
Thanks for reading!
~Lynette~