Baby Shower Gifts

I can't tell you all how swamped I've been with projects. In a good way though and mostly business. Here is a gift for a Scrapper/Friend/Mommy to be.

Vinyl Onesis

This very same friend has also abandoned traditional scrapbooks for digital, but I told her I was going to reel her back in. As a matter of fact, the baby has several 8x8 traditional pages, that she's done, of sonnogram pictures. I think he and I together will bring her back in. I started by making her a paperbag album:

Vinyl Tumblers & Water Bottle Take 2

Another busy week for me. The orders for Tumblers and Water Bottles just keep coming; among all the other things happening in my life. I'm sending some special love to my Mom who ordered 2 for shipment to CT. Thanks Mommy!

Finally, the Elephant Wedding Program has been delivered and the Nuptials took place today. I did tell my craft family that although this was a lot of work, there wasn't anything super fancy about it. The bride is a Delta and wanted something different. Special thanks to my hubby, daughter, Lisa, Yani, Chante, Karen, and Femi(Karen's hubby) who each had a role in getting all 250 programs completed.

Today, the Church's Youth Group went out on our monthly outing, to see the Smurfs. The movie was really good and the kids had a blast. Oh wait, so did the adults. We giggled like little girls. After my daughter saw Papa Smurf last week, she asked for (file on mardenz.blogspot.com):

Bridal Shower Gift:

And lastly, I've been waiting to put my Fancy Frames cricut cartridge to use. My sole purpose of getting this cart was to use on vinyl projects.

Vinyl Tumblers and Water Bottles

I didn't have any spare time to participate in challenges this week. I am deep in the final stages of 250 elephant shaped wedding programs. I handed off 200 this evening to my friend to tie bows. I only have 50 left to print, which means another 150 pages. There is nothing complicated about the program, just layers upon layers, upon layers.

To keep my sanity, I took an hour break to fill some tumbler orders.

1) Lakers is for my husband. I was supposed to make this the minute I tried vinyl for the first time, but a few orders came in quickly. He was smiling from ear to ear. He sent me back to my corner to add the jersey numbers of some of their greatest players. Lakers logo was an image file that I broke apart using SCAL.

2) Cowboys belongs to my big brother. His birthday is Wednesday and this will not be making it to the post office in time.

3) Papa Smurf belongs to my dad for his birthday next week. It's going to be filled with Tootsie Rolls. He and I watched the Smurfs together faithfully on Saturday mornings from 9a - 10:30a. He took the grandkids to see the movie. This is an svg file that I downloaded from Mardenz Blog.

4) Tumbler. Turtle is a cricut cut.

Try it out Thursday!!

Happy Friday Eve!!!! For my weekly followers, you may remember I've mentioned my "Things to try" in 2011 list. At the beginning of the year, that list included 2 things: Tshirt Vinyl and Glass Etching. Over the last few months, you know I have fallen in love with tshirt vinyl. So, this post checks off the other "try" item of the year; glass etching. I watched my friend Lisa tackle this before my very eyes. She was so patient and cautious as it was her first time. A few trials and she got it. I thought, "oh Lord, do I really want to do this." Yes, I must check it off my list. So, below is my first attempt. I had a few slips of the vinyl and I"ve never been a painter, but tadaaaaaa...

Ingredients: Cricut Machine, Armour Etching Cream, foam brush, skinny vase, white vinyl, thick popsicle stick, and transfer tape.

Now, we are 6 months away from a new year and my 2011 list has grown by 2 more techniques: Paperbag Album (which I've done 4 already) and something with canvas. Stay tuned for that one..

More Vinyl Tshirts

Tomorrow we celebrate the Indpendence of America. What I also love about this holiday, is seeing the sky all lit up with fireworks. Luckily for my kids, we get to hang at PaPa's house where we are able to light out own fireworks as soon as the night sky arrives.

All I wanted to do this weekend was relax. I did just that but I had a few projects that had to be finished and delivered today; especially since I just got 10 more water bottle / tumbler orders today, for my church fundraiser.

Vinyl for days....

Happy Friday Bloggers!!!!!

I've been quite busy over the last 2 weeks. I am part of a fundraising team at church and for my project, decided to sell water bottles. I'm having fun with all this vinyl but that means nothing else is getting done. The men in my life will be shocked if they open a store bought card for Father's Day but it's looking likely. LOL!!!

Along with the fundraisers, I'm also in the final stages of planning my church's annual women's retreat. The committee had their final meeting yesterday. Every year, the committee donates gifts to use as giveaway prizes during the retreat. Since I was already playing with vinyl, I kept right at it and made 2 tumblers as my giveaway. The image is our logo this year along with our theme.

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT weekend!

Mother's Day Finale

Most of the cards and gifts have been delivered, so I wanted to finally share a few of the other cards I made. Also adding in a paperbag album. This is my 2nd one and I didn't have pictures from before, so I made sure to snap them this time. I really enjoy making these and I wish I had a few more reasons to make more in the near future.

This week, I need to play catchup on 3 separate projects that were pushed to the side. Let's hope I conquer them by Saturday night.

Mother's Day 2011

Next week, Mother's will be honored everywhere. I hope that you all honor your Mother all year long and not just one Sunday in May.

On to my project. Yesterday, I had some friends over for a little scrapping. A month ago, I challenged two of them to pick something ahead of time and only bring those items. I also had to challenge myself, although all my supplies were in the house with me. We each chose our weapon and away we went. LOL!!! Of course, I chose Mother's Day and Vinyl. My project is playing along with Celebrate the Occassion this week. Now, let's just hope the recipients don't check my blog this week.

My project: Flameless Wax Candles

These were quite the challenge because the vinyl didn't go on so easy, even with transfer tape. I'm certain it was because of the wax but I kept at it. The large pieces of vinyl went on a lot easier. I attached the flowers, using a glue gun.

VIDEO: Using Tshirt Vinyl

Hi Everyone!!! I did tell you all I was obsessed with vinyl right? Well, a few people asked for a video so here it is. Warning, I kept saying tshirt throughout the video instead of onesis.

And guess what? I tried something new this week... A Paper Bag album. It's the for the Grandmother of the new baby on the way. Very adventurous project I started yesterday, considering the baby shower is Saturday. Oh well, back to the vinyl video.

Vinyl Onesis

Good Morning All,

I'm still working on learning how to use vinyl. This week, I'm showing my imperfections as I continue to strive for excellence. I focused on onesis, with a baby shower clear on my radar.

#1) Image comes from Forever Young. I nearly screamed when the silver portion of the mirror moved as I put the iron down and, I couldn't get it back up. This is still one of my favorites though because of the font. The font was cut using SCAL. I hardly ever cut thin fonts because they tend to tear the paper, but I thought I would give it a try with vinyl.

#2) Princess cut is from the Hannah Montana Cricut cartridge. I love the glitter vinyl.

#3) The Duck was cut from New Arrival and the font using SCAL. I did fix it's beak, but the camera battery died before getting the final finish.

Along with a baby scrapbook gift, these are my projects for the week. Thanks for stopping by.

More Vinyl Tshirts

Today is the last day of Spirit Week at the kids' school. It's TWIN day! The minute my daughter and her friend so the green tshirt, they were begging me to create one for them and their respective twin. Her friend even gave me the tshirts the next day. I was too tickled but felt so much love as all four girls really loved their shirts.

My daughter could not make up her mind what design she wanted. Every idea I gave her sounded good to her. This shirt came down to the wire and I mean with 5 minutes to spare for me to deliver to her classmate yesterday. I used the Hannah Montana cricut cartridge.

The pink shirt belongs to my daughter's bff and her twin. She wanted a heart with LUV. The heart is from Straight from the Nest and the letters from Storybook. Just in case it seems odd that BFFs aren't wearing the same shirt; they aren't in the same class this year.

I told you all I was addicted.