T-Shirts

 
First, I made these two for my nephew, Holden, and his little sister Leah.  I hear she is a little diva already, at 3 days old, so I was super excited that I used some pink glitter HTV!  The crown and the tiara are shapes from the silhouette store, but I designed the text and how it is curved or placed on the shirt.

Also, I ran across this shirt on facebook and couldn't resist making it for Gail for her birthday.  I traced the biohazard symbol, but put the rest together myself.  Hope you had a great birthday, Gail!

Modified T-Shirt

Sharla has joined us this year as a Craftlifter - Yay!   She saw this and decided to try taking one of her own t-shirts and modifying it for a workout shirt.

 Back view

Front view

Card Books

This month Kelly made card books so they are easier to save and to look at again.  She saw the idea originally here.  

She cut out pieces of cardboard, decorate them, punched holes in them and cards and used book rings to put it all together. 

So far she put together 3 books and did them by themes.  One booklet is cards from her parents, another is cards from her bother and family and the 3rd is cards from when she lived in Spain.  

Hot Pads

This month Vicki knitted several hot pads for her church's knitting group donation.

Crafts revisited...

So January always seems to be the time when I remember how far behind I am getting on my scraping ... so I have been trying to get caught up again starting where I left off in the fall (of 2011 ...ugh) so here is a sample of the pages from our housewarming party.  

 

Also for birthdays and anniversaries this month Mike has helped me make a few more of the yarn wrapped letters with fabric flowers.

Winter Decorations

 
Since I need to start putting away my Christmas decorations, I decided that I needed to use some of my excess vinyl to make some winter decorations.  I found different snowflakes that I liked and the phrase online and just used my silhouette software to trace them.  I re-sized everything to get a variety of snowflakes and to get the words just the right size for my glass door.  I used almost a full 12x12 sheet of blue vinyl and a sheet of 8x10 blue frosted glass vinyl.  I tried to get pictures taken in both daylight and night light for you to really see what it looks like, but pictures just do not do it justice.  It turned out really well, and now I think I need to do this every month, and boy, do I have the vinyl stash to do this!

Shirt Extravaganza

So this month I had Erin's heat press on loan for a week.  Of course I had grand plans, but saved them for the night before I needed to get it back to her.  Yikes!  I did get 7 shirts done in 3 hours though - not too shabby if you ask me.  (2 are not posted yet as they are gifts and I don't want them to see them yet!)

I made a Vikings shirt for my hubby.  Have to combat all the Packer Love on the blog here!

 I am in love with the pink glitter heat transfer that I purchased a while back.  I've been looking for an excuse to use it to make something for myself.  When I saw this quote while browsing the internet I knew how I could use it:)  I added a little flower on the corner of the shirt for a little more oomph of it!

My cousin had a new baby girl this month so I used the pink glitter to decorate a onesie and did a big brother super hero shirt again as well.

My daughter is into anything with ponies, unicorns and the like.  And being a young girl of course she seems to gravitate toward pink, purple and GLITTER.  So she got this Pegasus unicorn out of pink glitter as well.  She loves it and has worn it just as soon as it comes out of the wash.

More Packer Love

 Allison saw the shirt that Erin did for her husband and being a big Packer fan herself she wanted to make some more.  So she went a  little Packer crazy and made 3 (one for her and two for her second cousins).

Under the Sea Shirt

Amy created this shirt for her SIL's birthday.  Inspiration came from this. Amy took it another direction.  She came up with an under the sea theme so when you cross your arms the fish are swimming in the sea.  She used her Silhouette shapes and heat transfer.  Fun.

And the crafting continues . . .

Well, it seems like this was a good way to stick to getting our crafty on throughout the year even if we didn't all make it every 12 months. That being said it looks like I still have several crafters that want to continue with me for another year - Yay! Let's go! Voting for the 2012 categories is still going on through the 31st so if you haven't voted yet - please take a moment to let us know what you think! If you already voted - THANK YOU! It's nice to get some feedback:)

Year End Review and Voting!

We made it a full year - Yay!  Well, half of us completed at least one project every month of 2012.  I'll take that.  It's tough to be this crafty, but fun.  I was surprised at the variety of projects that were completed.  It was fun to see everyone's take on things.  The most important thing I learned this year by crafting more was if I think I can rock something out quickly - add AT LEAST an hour to my warped sense of time.  I seemed to loose a lot of sleep this year to crafting because I got a little carried away.

 The blog served as a place to encourage crafting and share our current crafts with each other.  As further incentive I told those that that completed at least one project in each month would be eligible for prizes!  To help us decided how we did please take a moment to fill out our survey!  The polls will be open through the remainder of January.  Results will be shared the first week of February. Thanks for checking out the blog this year and stay tuned for our 2013 projects!