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Yep. This is among the things I made for DH this Father’s Day.
I also made an ADORABLE photo of the kids holding the letters D-A-D that I painted. So cute!
Thought you’d totally appreciate the U Rock. We’re all so proud of it, LOL.
DH took it and put some felt slider things on the bottom of it. I have no idea what he’s planning to do with it, but right now it’s on the hearth of our fireplace.
DS#1 went with me to Home Depot to locate the perfect rock for our little project. Then I cut out a U stencil using my Cricut. Next, I donned some plastic gloves, taped the stencil to the rock as much as I could, which wasn’t much since packing tape doesn’t stick to rocks. That’s why I needed the gloves! I ended up painting some of my hand to keep paint from getting on the rock. Love gloves for these ideas! Anyway…now DH knows that he Rocks!! OR that U Rock. hmm….
I heart the Bind It All!! I took a few practice runs on plain paper just punching holes and lining them up and then I just went for it! So fun!! So, this was my first attempt at making a “word book” – one of the hot trends in crafting.
I only wish I hadn’t tried to make the letter pages with so many layers of poster board. I had some chipboard, but had heard some people used poster board, so I tried that. It’s too thin for my liking. I kept adding layers to it until I was happy and it took forever.
I used my Cricut Expression along with the trial version of Design Studio by Provo Craft to create the files that enabled me to print the ALLEY letters out as a piece of the page. I now have the full version of DS, but at the time I was waiting for it to be delivered. Pretty cool trial version!
I created this for one of DD’s friends, for her b’day. It’s basically just a journal/notebook. Blank pages are separated by the letter pages. The back and front of each letter page is decorated differently. So cute!! I used the DCWV Sweet Stack cardstock. Love that stack!
Labeling your booklets is an easy way to quickly decipher your overlays.
Every time I buy a new cartridge, I must label my booklet before using it. I’m getting pretty obsessive about it. However, I find that it makes finding everything a breeze. Sometimes it’s really hard to tell what is being shown on the buttons of those overlays. You’ll especially appreciate having things labeled if you have a font cartridge because they include letters AND numbers. You’ll think everything is easy when it’s numbers, but those letters are all over the place. Here’s an example using the Sesame Street Font Cartridge.
Here’s How I Label my Cricut Booklets:
I actually use a Sharpie marker to write my handy guide on the top left hand corner of each page.
The “R” stands for the ROW on the overlay where the item is found.
There are 5 ROWS on every overlay. So R2 = ROW 2.
There are 10 BUTTONS in every ROW.
So R2 – 6 = ROW 2 BUTTON 6. Meaning, go down to Row 2 and over 6 buttons and in this case you will find Cookie Monster with the letter Y and all the offerings on that page in the booklet.
Here’s Where Labeling Comes in Really Handy:
Seem like “I” should naturally follow “J”, but it’s a QWERTY overlay, so “I” is actually located at R2-8 (Row 2 Button 8 ) and “J” is located at R3-7 (Row 3 Button 7).
You might not feel like you need to do all this labeling, but it’s helped me a TON!!
I hope this helps you!! Happy Crafting!!
We just got back from a trip to Washington, D.C. where we saw some great works of art at the National Gallery. A room full of Monet’s too.
However, when we got back to Hotlanta I was reminded that the High was beginning an exhibit of Monet’s Water Lilies. Woo hoo!
Wow, those triptychs are way bigger than I thought they’d be.
Anyway, the High will have them from June 6 – August 23.
The babies and I got in early because we’re members.
You should go!
Um, yes that was a nerd reference to Lord of the Rings. I couldn’t help myself. Should I now proclaim myself as cool and not a nerd? No. That would only give me permanent nerd status.
Ok, so this week’s purchase (yeah, if this were all I’d bought regarding crafts this week, DH would think I’d been taken over by pod people). Anyway, this week I bought a Zutter Bind it All. LOVE IT!! Well, haven’t even used it yet, but did put it in it’s pink carrier (like a new baby) but I still LOVE IT!! I also got the pink tool kit for it. Ahhhh….pink. IDK just what I’m going to make first. Hmmm… You can bet it’s going to be some kind of book that I’ll also use my Cricut to design. Sadly, I have to wait until I get back from a trip I’m taking my babies on. But then… Woo hoo…Crafting Table here I come!!
Also, this week I bought 2 Cricut cartridges. Shhhhh!!
Seriously though, I got a great deal. I got Pooh and Friends, which I don’t even need, but was only $17 and change through somebody on Amazon!! For $17, it was a “must own”. Then, I used my Cricut points…I finally got to 800, to order the George cartridge. Hey, I actually thought that would be free (silly me), but it was $13 for shipping UPS. Come on, $13 for shipping?! Well, still. Happy to have spent $30 on 2 carts. Yay!! So excited to get back home and play with all my toys.
A talented 13 year old shows how to make a painted T Shirt using a stencil made with the Cricut and some Freezer Paper. Awesome!!
Yep. This dude has a 2 Liter bottle body.
Have your kids had to do the “Make a person out of a 2 liter bottle and a styrofoam ball project?” What a PAIN!!
DS had to do that recently and his guy to create was Nikita Kruschev. Geeze!
Here’s how you do it:
1. Put sand in empty 2 liter bottle, for stability.
2. Buy medium styrofoam ball and cut a hole in it so that it can fit on the cap of the 2 liter bottle.
3. Decorate.
Here’s what we did:
Covered the head with a white paper bag because just sytrofoam was ugly and we didn’t have any paper mache, which I thought would work well. Then, we rubber banded the bag into place. His outfit is made with some leftover polar fleece I had when I made DS#1 an Ash (from Pokemon) vest. We had an idea of what he should look like from this photo. Looking at the photo, I just cut out some material and folded it into the correct shapes for his clothes. Then I used a very hot glue gun (too hot for DS to use) to seal the pieces together. Nikita turned out great! You can even put things in his pockets. His tie and white shirt are polar fleece too. His little Russian hat is so cute. We used poly-fil for his hair and eyebrows…which we took outside and spray painted with black. We used the Cricut Expression to cut out the little stars and circle. DS added a face (of course), which is not shown here.
The back of Nikita.
Nikita to the Right.
Nikita to the Left.
Yes, I did feel the need to make Nikita Pop Art. Can you say, “geek”?
