Wood Obsession

Gift for a Sweet Friend

I knew I wanted to make something special for my sweet friend Amanda who was moving to Alabama with her family. She had admired some of my initial things in my house and I wanted to do something like that for her. I found this blank tin at Hobby Lobby 50% off and knew it would be perfect for what I had in mind. Of course I cut the letters on my Cricut and placed them on the board, upside down the first time. I had all the letters placed on perfectly and then I looked on the back where the hangers were and they were at the bottom, so I had to pull all of them off and start over. A little frustrated, but well worth starting over to get it done. She loved it and I was so glad! I am really going to miss her and her sweet family!

Framed Crown

I had this frame in a closet, never been used. It had gold on it and I don't even know why I bought it because I only use silver frames. I'm guessing it was on sale. I tried to do a crackle finish with brown and this pretty turquoise color. The crackle didn't work very well, but I ended up putting some Ralph Lauren smoke glaze on it. I then attached a piece of burlap to the back of the frame and cut out the crown with black cardstock with my Cricut. I attached it to the burlap with some glue dots. I have to say I love the way it turned out.

Lego Storage

We have so many legos around and they seem to be taking over, so I wanted to come up with something to store them in instead of just keeping them loose and getting them mixed up. I'm sure they still will get mixed up until my son gets older, but at least I will have a storage system in place by then. I used my Cricut to cut the legos and letters out of vinyl.

My New Addiction.....Vinyl!

I absolutely love cutting vinyl on the Cricut. I have been obsessed with it the past few weeks, monogramming everything. I sold my little bug a while back in hopes of getting an Expression later on. Well, that hasn't happened yet, but my friend Kristi bought one and hadn't used it yet. I told her about the SCAL program that she could use with it instead of buying all the different cartridges. I borrowed her Expression and loaded her SCAL on my laptop and started playing so I could figure it out first and then show her how to use it. SCAL is the most amazing program. It can cut any font and cut dingbats and any SVG file. I haven't really played much with Inkscape to create my own files yet, but there are so many generous and talented people out there that are sharing the files they created. If you haven't purchased your SCAL program, you can click here: http://www.craftedge.com/ Of course, now there is SCAL2, which makes some things a little easier from what I'm reading. Not quite ready to deal with that yet.