May 18, 2012

Wedding Favor Boxes

Just one last wedding related thing that i had forgotten to post. Rob and I frequently enjoy sushi and chinese cuisines, so it made sense to incorporate 'take out' boxes for our wedding favors. Well I knew that the material would not allow for stamping (slippery surface) so to keep things simple I made a simple heart monogram that we glued on to boxes. I love how they turned out.




May 02, 2012

Groomsman Gifts

Well wedding is over. So here is a little bare minimum step by step of our homemade etched beer mugs:

Basically I had wives/significant others send me photos of their police badges. From there, using photoshop, I did my best re-creation of the badge in a more simplistic version. Cut it out with MTC, applied it to the mugs and used Armour Etch to etch into it... here are the three mugs in the three phases...
Original Badge 1
Cricut vinyl rendition

Etched final version
Badge 2 Original
Cricut rendition
Final etched version
Final badge
Cricut rendition
Etched mug finalized


This project was fun, but tedious. Hoping to have reason to etch more stuff in the future!








April 24, 2012

Pink By Design Giveaway

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Contest ends 5/31/12 or at the next stamp release, whichever happens sooner!

April 14, 2012

Birthday Card

Here is a birthday card I made my friend the other day...

I used some brown ribbon, card stock from a DCWV stack and then used a double-use edge puncher by EK Success.



March 16, 2012

Candy Labels

I originally created these for our wedding (April 21) figuring I would find some use for them, but I am still unsure if I will use them. I used MTC to create our monogram on a rounded square card. It measures 5" W x 5.5" H. I knew that we were doing a candy bar so I added them to my printer and printed the different candy names on each of them. I am just not certain I like them.


Any input, should I keep them or pitch them... add something to them perhaps? Suggestions welcome!


March 01, 2012

Wedding Banner

Well I am trying to update this as I can... now that I am into prime-time crafting, decorating mode for the wedding. Just over 7 weeks to go! AND, I picked up my dress today! Yes!

So I used Make the Cut for this project not only because of its flexibility to cut just about everything, but I wanted to incorporate a specific font that we used on our invitations (as I have been doing for a lot of wedding crafts lately). The banner I wanted to create will be used as a decoration for our candy bar that we are having.

To start, I used a simple triangle that I manipulated to be the length and size that I wanted, and by joining 4 of them together. Below is a photo of the image:

I then used the font we used on invites: LD Soccer Mom (...I know, the names they come up with...LOL...) to spell out LOVE IS SWEET with a shadow layer. Well I haven't officially assembled all of the pieces, but rather have placed them as I want to. I am really excited and happy with the result. Here is what it will resemble when its completed. I will post photos of it in use later!



I cannot wait to use this at my wedding!

Thanks for stopping by!

February 19, 2012

Wall Decal

My mom found an idea for her laundry room. Upon showing me the photo, I instantly knew I could re-create it for her!... so with some help from cricut and make the cut... I was able to create the same thing for her!

First I set up my MTC program to look like below. It gave me an idea of how much space it would take up, because my mom doesn't have the same room.


Anyways, after determining that I wanted this as my final size (27-28" long) by ~10" tall... I rearranged all of the items on my screen so that it would fit on one 12x24" mat and then clicked "cut"

Here's the final cut project, once all the excess vinyl was removed:


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