Christmas Blocks

For you people out there that have a Cricut machine and some handy dandy cartridges this project is for you!  I used the "Lyrical Lyrics" and the "Christmas Village" cartridges, some wood scrap, paint, and vinyl and look what cute Christmas blocks I came up with.  What an easy and quick Christmas project!

Flour and Sugar Containers

For the longest time I have been with out flour and sugar containers.  I found some at Ross and decided to add some vinyl to them.

Simple, but cute at the same time!

Aggie Subway Art

My daughter loves anything that has to do with the Utah State Aggies.  My husband brought home a pink Aggie "A" for her wall and I thought I would add my touch to it!  I wanted to fit it in with the colors of her room and this is what I came up with...

Fits well don't ya think?!?

Dress'in Up Your Flower Pots

Want to add a little spice to your flower pots?

Simply add the letter of your last name...

or your house number...

or just a simple decal of your choice!

The combination adds a personal touch to your flower pots.  Once again I used my handy, dandy Cricut machine to cut the vinyl and simply applied it to the pots!  It was quick and easy!

Re-purposed John Deere Kiddy Tractor

Years ago my Dad got this little kiddy John Deere tractor with the purchase of his John Deere riding lawn mower.  It was for my nephew who was 2 at the time.  Well, it has been through a lot in the last 5 years--a couple bumps and bruises, a little fading from the sun, and the paper stickers were peeling away.  I have an 18 month old girl who needed a little toy to ride this summer, so my parents said "here take this" and that is what I did!  I brought it home, broke out the Cricut and went to town creating a new look for it.  I knew there wasn't much I could do about the fading issue and the bumps and bruises, but the added stickers spruced her right up!

 The poor stickers--you hardly can tell what they were supposed to be.

I love my little Cricut machine for projects like this--it's the BEST!

I started with the grill and lights.  I measured where the old grill sticker was cut a piece of black vinyl for it.  Then I made 6 small strips for the grill out of gray vinyl and 2 white squares for the lights out of white vinyl and attached them all together.

I used my nifty rounded corner punch to round the edges on the grill, lights and some of the words.

Due to the fading issue where ever the stickers where underneath them was the original color. So, I had to add a back to the words JOHN DEERE which turned out great! I also cut out new yellow rings to go around the wheels and white circles with black rings and little red markers for the new gauges.  How cute are they?

Next, I attached it all and decided that since this was for a girl it need something pink added to it.  So, I found word GIRL on my "Celebrations" cartridge w/ some cute daisies and added them for the final touch! 

I'm thrilled with how it turned out and so is my little girl!  It's her top choice of trikes to ride now!

Vinyl For The Laundry

After my vinyl project in the kitchen my mind started filling with ideas.  When ordering my vinyl I mixed up my color choices and ended up with this awesome pumpkin orange color, which if you know me is one of my favorite colors EVER!!!  I wanted to do something fun with it and this is what I came up with...

Arranging the lay-out

And Wah-Lah!

I have seen the saying many, many times, but fell in love with the arrow and had to use it. 

So cute and so fun!

Vinyl For The Kitchen

I'm so proud of my little Cricut even though I am loathing a Silouhette machine.  I have the very first version of the Cricuts that hit the market and I put this thing to work.  I have collected a couple of fun cartridges over the years which made this project so fun!

I started out with the good ole' Home Decor cartridge for most of the project and then used a couple different alphabet cartridges for the words.  I purchased my vinyl on Ebay which were cut to size 6x12 sheets with many color options.  I choose the Matte Black vinyl (I really like the matte because the shine on the regular black causes glares that make it hard to read when it is on a wall) and started my project.

Here are the words that already cut and ready for transfer tape.

Finished project--onto the next... 

To tie in the scrolls between the words I added one above the stove.  This actually turned out to be my favorite part!  I'm so pleased with how it all turned out!