Alabama Crimson Tide Cricut Football Fan – Football Friday Post
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It’s true. Sometimes I make things just because they make me laugh, like my blog blog blog shirt. Making a “football fan” cracked me up. You know what? It’s funny, it’s useful and can be obnoxious a great way to show team spirit. Imagine fanning it every time your team gets a touchdown, like DH and I did every time Alabama scored last week in the Arkansas game. We can be pretty ridiculous, but I was super happy that he used my fan.
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In this post, I’m using the Cricut Cartridge Sports Mania cartridge. All Sports is another good Cricut sports cartridge and both have footballs.
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This is part of the file I created in the post I made Monday. I’m using the “A” I used for my car vinyl to decorate my football fans. I made 3 fans and cut them out at about 6″. I cut 3 solid white shapes (for the middle), 3 solid brown shapes (for the back) and 3 of the shapes that make it look like an actual football.
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I used the Cuttlebug Mesh Texture folder in my Big Shot to give the footballs that bumpy texture.
Curious about the difference between the Big Shot & the Cuttlebug? I have a video comparing them.
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I used my Xyron Creative Station to quickly glue the back of each football. Then I stuck them to the white background that I’d already cut. Certainly you can use other adhesives, but this was quick and easy.
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I bought these craft sticks (tongue depressors, popsicle sticks, whatever you want to call them) at Hobby Lobby. I used Zip Dry Paper Glue to help me glue these sticks between the layers of the fan. It worked great to seal both the paper and the sticks!
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You can make soccer fans, basketball fans, etc. Since this is Football Friday I made FOOTBALL FANS! I hope you enjoyed this weeks Football Friday. I’ll have a new edition of Football Friday … guess when? LOL! Who shouted next Friday? You, in the back! That’s right! 😉
Oh man, I wish I had these carts to make a fan. My parents are huge Bama fans. I live in South Carolina so I pull for both teams!!
Great job!
Amanda
I have three words ro show you how much I love what you have created here. ROLL TIDE ROLL!!
I really Like this FAN! I can see making it for my Chicago Bears Team! YEA! This is a fun Friday project… so glad
you’re doing this! 😉
Theresa
Oh wow these look amazing and so real. The mesh works really well.
Kim xXx
Awesome! I love this cartridge and use it a lot for my kids’ sports pages. I love how you used an embossing folder to get the football bumps – great idea!!!
Super cute idea! Sounds like you and your DH have a great time watching football!! 🙂
Lori
This would also be a FANtastic addition to my tailgate center piece. All I need to do is change from A to Hotty Toddy! 🙂 Thanks for the fun idea!
Boo! Woo Pig Sooie! Razorbacks! Go Hawgs! 😉
Girl…..these are just awesome……how much would you charge me too make me 2…. I am so not crafty:)
Thank you, Deborah! I don’t have room in my schedule to make any in a timely manner right now but they’re pretty easy. I bet you can do it! Roll Tide! 😉