Teacher Appreciation - Manly Embellished Water bottles

In a previous post I shared how I made polka dot monogram cups for the female teachers in my children's lives. Today I have an idea for all the fellas. Instead of a girly cup, I decided to go with water bottles. I have both aluminum and clear plastic ones. I still included a monogram but with a more manly font and styling. Which do you like best? Clear or Aluminum?

Supplies:

• Water bottles - Dollar Tree
• Vinyl - Oh My Crafts!
• Top note - Cricut Essential cart (in E2) - cut at 3.5" relative size
• Stars, Monogram - CTMH Art Philosophy cart - cut at 1.25" and 1.75"
• Vinyl Kiss cut on E2 - blade set to 1, speed 3, depth 3, multi-cut 1
• Cricut transfer tape
• plastic Easter grass from Dollar Tree
• Crystal light drink sticks

In addition, I added a note pad/pen set for the ladies and a lined small note book for the fellas (both from Dollar Tree).

I really hope these men love these bottles and will use them. It's so hard gifting to males in a crafty way!!

La-Vie

Stop back to see the tag cards I attached to these bottles. They are adorable (not so manly - sorry!)

Challenges:

• TBD

Princess Wall Art - Word Collage

I was glad to catch an hour in my craft room today! I made some wall decor for my 9-year-old daughter's room using the Word Collage Cricut cart. The flourishes at the top and bottom are decorative brackets from the American Alphabet cart in my E2.

Supplies:

• Word Collage - Princess cut @11.5"
• American alphabet - font 3: bracket cut at 9.5"
• Vinyl - dark purple from Oh My Crafts and light purple from Cricut
• Cricut transfer tape

I hope you enjoyed my quick post today! It sure made one little girl happy!

La-Vie

Challenges:

• TBD

Teacher Appreciation - Vinyl Decorated Reusable Cups

After watching Joy's video from Obsessed with Scrapbooking on YouTube, I started collecting these cups every now and again from Dollar tree in the hopes to embellish them for teacher appreciation week. Thanks for the inspiration Joy Tracey!!










Supplies:

• Cups - Dollar Tree
• Vinyl - Oh My Crafts!
• Top note - CTMH Art Philosophy cart and layer cut at 3.5" relative size
• Polka dots - Cricut Essential cart (in E2) - .75", 1', 1.25" real dial size
• Vinyl Kiss cut on E2 - blade set to 1, speed 3, depth 3, multi-cut 1
• Monogram - CTMH Artbooking cart - font cut at 1.75" real dial size
• Cricut transfer tape
• 12x24 cricut mats

I've gotten a jump start on them but need YOUR HELP!! I plan on making tag cards to attach with ribbon to the straw but what should I put inside?? I have some easter grass for the bottom but wondered if I should put in one of the following:

1. chocolate kisses
2. drink mix sticks (those individual ones you add to water to make a beverage)
3. a gift card
4. something else??

Please let me know your best guess at what teachers would love for a small appreciation gift this year. I'll update you when the votes are tallied and the cups are complete. Who knows? I might give a prize to one lucky commenter... you never know... so stay tuned.

Thanks!!

La-Vie

Personalized Water Bottles for Lacrosse

My daughter just finished her first season of Lacrosse. I chose the sport for her and neither of us knew anything about it when she began. She has developed a love for the sport and pick up the skills required rather quickly. The team gelled and finished the season undefeated.

To congratulate all the teammates my company is donating personalized aluminum water bottles for each girl (two teams = 33 girls)! Each bottle features a lacrosse player with the girl's name and jersey number. Here's the first one I completed for my daughter Zora who was #57. I tied bows on the cover and attached a tag with my company info with twine to complete the look.

Supplies:

• Aluminum water bottles - Dollar Tree
• Gold adhesive Vinyl 12" x 24" - Oh My Crafts!
• Cricut Transfer Tape
• Cricut E2 - Cricut Decals (lacrosse player 3.5") and Hannah Montana (font 1" and numbers .25")
• Ribbon, Twine - American Crafts
• Tags - Hero Arts

Check back tomorrow for the latest Get Inky! Stamps challenge and my inspirational post. I hope you'll join in on the fun!!!

Challenges:
3 Girl Jam - #19 Anything Goes with Ribbon

La-Vie

Disney Pixar Cars Room Decor - Vinyl Project

My son turned 3 last month and we changed his room from baby to big boy! He moved into a twin bed and chose The World of Cars as his decor. Asking a 3-year old what they want their room decor to be is almost  futile but after looking at many options, he finally reacted in a way that I knew Cars was the way to go!

Using the Disney Cars Cricut Cartridge started with Lightning McQueen. This was my first big vinyl project so I made lots of mistakes. At first I didn't use transfer tape. I got so frustrated I almost gave up. But I knew the look on my son's face would make it all worth it so I forged on. Lightning McQueen is cut at 9.5" and I got all of the vinyl from Oh My Crafts for 99 cents a sheet! I did not have the right color for the side window and lightning bolt. So I used ink to color white vinyl silver.

I also cut the Cars symbol out at 9.5" as well. This was a little more easy to layer. I used transfer tape to place everything properly.

I chose a font and shadow from the Cricut Cartridge Batman to add my son's name to the wall. Transfer tape allowed me to get it (almost) straight. lol

I used the E2 Cricut to cut the vinyl using the kiss cut method. Here is an example of the size of Lightning McQueen vs my hand. I was upset because placing these large layers by hand made it hard to get in the right place and then there were serious wrinkles and air bubbles but once I put it on the wall, all of that disappeared to my surprise!

Ok so the bed isn't made and he's still in diapers thus the changing table, but I wanted you to get a sense of how it look on the wall. In the future (I got tired out on this project) I will add more of the characters to the wall. The greatest thing is, this is not permanent. I can change the theme as he grows.

La-Vie