4th of July garland!

I sewed up this fun paper garland the other day. It is super easy to do I have made a valentines garland and a st patricks day one too. stars were cut from George and Basic Shapes at about 2-1/2 and the rocket and firework was cut from Stand and Salute around 3. I cant remember and I cant check because Cricut Design space is weird and I still haven't learned all the tricks like the Gypsy.

Fantabulous Cricut #45- Support The Cause

This week's challenge at FCCB is to make a project in honor of a cause near and dear to your heart (i.e. breast cancer awareness, autism, MADD, etc). I decided to go with supporting our troops. I use to have a magnetic bumper sticker on my truck but it got old and sun faded so we threw it away and I  had been meaning to do something with vinyl but never got around to it so this was the perfect chance to make my own vinyl sticker for my truck to support all those people that serve our country so that we may enjoy the freedoms we have... THANK YOU!!!

I used black vinyl, my Stand And Salute cartridge and cut this out at 3-1/4. I wish I had camo vinyl but I dont think they make it and I didnt have any yellow either or I would have probably used that, anyway I love how it turned out. Be sure to enter this weeks challenge at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog for some really great prizes and while your here enter my giveaway for a 55 dollar gift code to CSNStores, just leave a comment on THIS post!

Firecracker Decorations

Hi Everyone, I made these a couple weeks ago and didn't get to share them with you before I left. I used the Stand and Salute cartridge and cut freedom out at 1-1/2 and USA at 1-3/4 on white vinyl. My wood is just a 2x2 cut at 4, 6, and 8 inches. After I had them all painted I used a drill bit to make a small hole in the top and then hot glued some twine in for the fuse. I also hot glued the blocks to each other so they wouldn't fall out of the twine I tied them together with... hope you enjoy this project, if you give it a try leave a link. Some of them I just painted and didn't add any vinyl. I will actually be having a class on these tomorrow night at the church!
Thanks for the great project Rachel :)

Freedom Banner

Ok girls this project was one I made for a design team call but I didn't make it so I'll share it with you today...
This is what I did to make it and the cartridges I used...

*Everyday Paperdolls~ I cut the kids at 11-1/2 as well as the clothes. For the boy I added some Making Memories button brads to his shirt, I used a brown marker to highlight his hair and a white gel pen to all the places where there were cuts made. For the girl I used the brown marker for her hair as well and a white gel pen on her bow, bandanna, shoes, shirt and shorts. They both have a sparkler in their hand and wiggly eyes!
*Stand and Salute~ I cut the sparkler at 3-1/2 on some white pearl shine paper. Then I cut a shadow for each to correspond with their outfits. I also added some red stickles to the center of his and some blue glitter to the center of hers.
*Opposites Attract~ I cut all my letters at 4-1/2 using the opposite (pearl shine paper) and the opposite shadow (red cardstock) features.
*George and Basic Shapes~ I cut my stars at 4-1/2 and then embossed them using the cuttlebug and the D'vine Swirls folder.

I used some chipboard I had in my stash and cut it to 5-1/2 x 4-1/4, all my pattern paper is from the DCWV summer stack from 2008. The red, black and pearl shine (white for letters) is all from Provocraft. The brown and light blue (shorts) textured paper is Bazzill. I punched some holes with a hole punch and threaded some white fiber ribbon through to tie the letters together, then I tied the sign to their hands to make it look like they are holding it up. :) If you would like to see some of my other banners I have made for different holidays click HERE, HERE and HERE!

Also some other fantastic news, I just found out yesterday when I got home that I DID make the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog Design Team. I was super happy so not making the other one didn't seem so bad anymore. You should check out their blog when you get a chance, Robin usually has some great prizes to giveaway and this weeks challenge should be lots of fun, you need to create something with a creepy crawly and use orange on your project!

My Hero, Honor, USA, Freedom cards

The brother of a friend of mine just went into the service and she asked me if I could make some cards for her to send to him when she sends a package... this is what I came up with and I am really loving the options with this cartridge, I didn't write down the different sizes of the cuts like I should have, I was just trying to crank out as many as I could so if one size didn't work I adjusted it and cut again but still used the other cuts as well. I did have a hard time getting the Honor to cut, it was being such a pain! I used the note card feature a lot on these and then used the cut outs for the other cards, mixing and matching as I went.These ones are the tags, tank and gun note cards with the helmet pieces from the opposite note cards stuck on there, am I making sense? These are the tank, helmet and dog tag note card feature with the tank and gun cutouts stuck on.

Sorry I have been slacking lately, my kids got out of school today and with the end of the year stuff going on I haven't been able to create much. Also I am leaving to go visit my mom and dad tomorrow for a week so I will be gone. I didn't get anything done either to have auto-posted so hopefully you'll stick around with me and I will see ya when I get back :)