Birthday Shirts

 My son turned 3 this month and his two current obsessions are Legos and Angry Birds.  So I used my Silhouette and heat transfer to make him a shirt of each. They were a hit.

Vinyled Pan

I made pumpkin bars for teacher appreciation at school and needed to have the pan I was sending them to school labeled.  I decided to decorate this lid very similar to what I did to a container last year for school.  I only decorated the lid and used Oracal 651 vinyl that will last through washings.  Last year's container is still going strong.

Jump Start on Christmas

This month we had a crafting weekend with some aunts and cousins. We made a lot of things and I decided to get a jump start on some Christmas Decor items.  I made the snowflake wreath from a OTC kit that I had.  I also finally cut out all my boxes and put them together for my Silhouette Advent Calendar. Now I just need to add my numbers to the boxes.  I also made some glitter ornaments (like Karen has shown) and a countdown flip chart for December. Hopefully pictures of those to follow.

First Birthday Shirts

 This month Erin and Gail took a request from a friend to make 1st birthday party shirts for her son.  The cute sock monkey on the brown shirt was a full iron-on purchased at Hobby Lobby.  The white shirt we designed with the silhouette to match the invites and used heat transfer in red, brown, cream, and black to cut out and heat press.  We learned a few new tricks in creating the shirts so that's always helpful!

Baby Onesies

Here are some baby onesies I made up for a baby shower and a couple to have on hand.  I think these turned out great.  Once again, I vut out heat transfer vinyl with my Silhouette Cameo and pressed it with my heat press.  The tie dyed oneses are from the batch I made earlier this month.

Laundry Sign

I have seen a lot of signs on Pinterest that give me a giggle so I have been trying to make some with my own spin on things using up some of the supplies we have around the house.  I really like a lot of the laundry signs or displays for missing socks.  Everyone has missing socks, and I am tired of the pile on my dresser, so I thought I needed a sign.  I used up some left over paint from one of the bedrooms to paint a board.  Then I ran some washi tape along the top.  I used my Silhouette to cut out the saying in vinyl and attached that.  I ran washi tape over the top of some clothespins and then mod podged over it to make them stick.  I coated the whole board in polyurethane and let it dry completely.  Then I used tacky glue to attach the clothespins to the board.  Some of my inspiration for this came from Here  and Here.  However if you type in Missing Sock in Pinterest you will get a whole slew of fun options!

Magnet

We love books in our house.  Since having kids my addiction for buying books for myself has mostly ended and instead I have a slight problem buying hoards of books for the kids.  I am trying to be good about rotating some of them out seasonally.  A while back I bought this metal bucket from Target.  I decided that it would be fun to decorate it for each season and have this be our main rotating book location for the living room.  I finally got around to trying out my magnet paper on my Silhouette.  I found the shape in the shop, colored it in and merged it together.  Then I printed it out on my printer and then ran the magnet sheet through the Silhouette to cut it out.  I was pretty pleased with how the first attempt went.  Now onto making them for each season!

Back To School

 
Parker has a Spiderman backpack and Aiden has a StarWars backpack, so I put their names on their backpack using Heat Transfer Vinyl.  It looks great.  The only problem I encountered was that it did melt the internal padding, but I'm not worried about that with these backpacks.

Aiden also needed his name put on his rest time towel.  Since he has an Angry Birds towel, we downloaded an Angry Birds font.  He picked the bright blue glitter HTV.  I was a little worried about how it would turn out, but it was great.  Now I'm going to add the other boys names to their beach towels!

A Visit from the Tooth Fairy

My daughter recently lost her first tooth and the tooth fairy was ready at our house!  I found great ideas on Pinterest and went a little wild:)  The reaction when she saw what the tooth fairy left was priceless.

 Grandma and Grandpa have a fairy door on one of their trees and the kids are very entertained by it.  Once I saw this  I knew the tooth fairy had to leave a door at our house.  This door magically appeared over night when the tooth fairy stopped by to collect the tooth.  It is placed in between the wall that separates the kids' bedrooms, so easily accessible for the tooth fairy to visit either child;)

 Well what did she put her tooth in?

 This cute pouch.  I used the dimensions from this tutorial to make the pouch.  Then I had Grandma (thank you!) sew it together quick and sew on the ribbon so it would loop around the door knob.  I then used my Silhouette and Amy Robison's awesome tooth fairy kit to cut out heat transfer for the pouch and then ironed it on.  The "tooth fairy" then attached a mini key to her door on the ribbon of the bag.  We also used Amy Robison's Lost Tooth Certificate to document the big day.  So much fun!

Since we did my daughter's pouch I went ahead and made one for my son as well, now I just have to hang onto it until he looses his teeth in a few years!

Canvas Project with the Kids

I bought a package for skinny 4x4 canvases thinking that we would do this project with the kids for my daughter's birthday party since she requested that they paint.  Ooooh I am so glad I ended up vetoing that idea to pain with a bunch of 4 and 5 year olds! I had the canvases so I thought that we could have some fun with them around the house.

I used my Silhouette and cut out a vinyl unicorn as requested.  My daughter wanted a pink unicorn so I had her paint the canvas all in pink and then let it try.  I then attached the vinyl unicorn and had her paint the canvas again in purple.  After she was done painting we peeled up the vinyl and had this.  She chose some ribbon out of the stash to make it into a door hanger for her room.

My 2-1/2 year old is into trucks, machines, etc.  I had him pick out which machine he wanted to do and he chose a digger.  I stuck his vinyl digger straight to the canvas and let him have a go with the paints.  Once he was done we peeled it up and had a white digger silhouette.  He wanted to be like big sis and picked out some ribbon so we could hang his project in his room.

Fun with Vinyl

 So I had a little fun with my vinyl this week.

 I know I've seen this one somewhere, but can't remember where exactly.  I put this on the tub in our master bath.  The hubby actually noticed it the first day it was up.   

 We repainted all of our main floor and so this kid art display had to come down, along with my vinyl.  So I finally got around to putting up a new "Masterpiece" sign on the wall.  I previously had used a font called FREEZE that I ended up being not too fond once it was cut and on the wall.  So when I recut it I switched it to MY OWN TOPHER font. This display idea came from here and it works great for displaying the kids art.

Pony Party

This month my daughter celebrated her 5th birthday and she is big into horses, so she wanted a pony party.

 I found this card on Silhouette and she told me very specifically what needed to be what color. I think it turned out to be a pretty cute invite.

 She is also big into crafts so we planned a lot of crafts for the girls to do.  This was one of them.  I used pieces from other silhouette shapes (hair and ears came from a cow) I had and then free handed a few pieces and cut them all out in advance to make these horse treat bags.  Yes, I think the pink nose looks a little like a pig, but the kid wanted pink and purple and was happy with it:)  We also decorated horse cut outs with ribbon, glitter glue, google eyes, and gems.  And of course we made pony bead bracelets and necklaces!  

Wedding Gift

 One of my cousins got married this month and I created this card and variation on a split letter for them as part of their wedding gift.

You've Got Mail

First project on the Silhouette for me!  My husband helped me with this one - I think mostly to ensure that both sides weren't OU haha!  We sanded and spray painted the mailbox to make sure we had an even surface and then traced logos and cut them out onto adhesive vinyl with the silhouette.  Then we just peeled and stuck them on... GO STATE and BOOMER SOONER! : )  

Falcons Apron

My friend, Lisa, made these aprons for her husband and son.  She wanted to add a little something to them, so I added the large falcons using Heat Transfer Vinyl.  I already had the design in my Silhouette library, so I just cut each layer out and used my heat press to stick it down.  I have a feeling that this father/son duo will be grilling outside together every Sunday this fall!

Pirates Aaaarg Cool

To kick off the summer break we have been doing theme weeks at our house before things get to busy with other activities.  This week was Pirate Week.  Oh my, there are soooo many fun things to do with Pirates!  We made Pirate food, pirate shirts, pirate crafts, pirate hats, read pirate books, watched Jake and the Neverland Pirates, painted treasure chests and went on a treasure hunt.  I still have way more ideas so I think we are totally going to have another pirate day sometime this summer.  Here are just a few of the things we did . . . 

Made pirates to eat after seeing this.  My kids thought their pirates needed arms instead of a sword, I think they just wanted more pretzels:)

I had way to much fun making these pirate shirts.  For the "girl" pirate I used glitter pink heat transfer for the bandanna and glitter black heat transfer for the eye patch.  Got my inspiration for these from here.

We also made pirate spy scopes/telescopes.  For the pirate hats I followed this tutorial and then cut out the skull and bones with fuzzy white heat transfer and ironed it to the hat.  I didn't have white thread (or I couldn't find it anyway) so I didn't do the extra stitching around the edge, but the kids enjoyed them anyway:)  The eye patches I ordered from OTC.  This pirate is also holding her treasure chest.  I found these at JoAnn's for $1/each and let the kids paint them.  I also made pirate maps  -- torn the edges off brown craft card stock and drew a simple picture map of places to go around the house with a big "x" where I had a little box with some goodies in it.

A very fun and crafty week!

Split Letter

I used my Silhouette and designed this split letter for a paying customer!  The R is in Anabel font.  It's a pain to use as the cut lines aren't quite right always, but I am getting better at using the software that I've found some ways to adjust cut lines as needed.  I used Oracal 631 vinyl as it is sandwiched in between 2 panes of glass and isn't meant to be used outside

Let's Learn Center

My kiddos seem to like learning new things if it is done in a fun way that relates to their interests.  There are soooo many blogs of great quick and easy activities to do at home with the tiny tot set.  I seem to pin a lot of these ideas to Pinterest, but don't always sit down to actually make the activities even though a lot of the time I have the supplies at home already.  I needed a way to get things a little bit more organized and easily accessible.  I decided to sit down and actually do a few of the activities and then organize them in a crate with hanging file folders.

  Here are some of the activities that I completed this month for the kids to do:

I printed and laminated this great Dump Truck Counting Mat to use with some transportation beads we have.  I printed and laminated these Lego Counting Mats as well.

I was really excited when I saw that these boy themed lace up cards were the free shape of the week from Silhouette recently.  We love lace cards at our house.  I printed them out, used the Silhouette to cut them out, laminated them and then punched the holes in.

I also printed up, cut and laminated a bunch of these Lego Patterns cards.

I also love the Preschool and Tot Learning Packs from this website.  I've printed up and laminated the packs for Cars, Doc McStuffins, and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  They have all been a hit at our house!

"Super" Glass Etched Mugs

For my brother in law's birthday I took a set of 4 glass beer mugs and glass etched his "Family Logo" into them:)  I cut the design out of vinyl on the Silhouette and then weeded the part I wanted to show up.  I then placed the vinyl on the mugs and applied the glass etching, waited 45 minutes (it says you only have to wait 15, but longer seems to be better).  Then I scooped the excess back into the container, took up the vinyl and washed them up.  They came with a case of beer - they were a hit!

Heat Transfer Gifts

 We had a cousin that gave birth to twins last month so I made these onesies as part of their gifts.

Some family friends had little girls celebrating their 4th and 1st Birthdays this month so I made these t-shirts.  I was happy to be able to use more pink glitter heat transfer!