Dollar Store Oven Mitt

Materials Used:

• We whisk you a Merry Christmas and Baking Spirits Bright Images
• Baking Christmas Cheer
• Tis the season for baking cookies image
• Many have eaten here, few have died
• Believe 
• Made with love which means I licked the spoon (FREE)
• Oven Mitt bought from the Dollar Tree
• Siser easy weed vinyl was used
• Cricut Easy press 2 was used. I would recommend using the Cricut easy press 2 mini.

How to make a Santa place-mat for Christmas

Image Used:

Materials:

• Cricut Easy Press 2
• Siser Easy Weed in white

Dimensions used:

• 15.5" by 11"

How to personalize a stuffed animal

Materials Needed:

• Elf from the Dollar Tree
• HTV or iron on (I recommend siser easy weed or cricut everyday iron on)
• Hair Straightener

Dimensions used:

• Name: 2" by 1"
• Snowflake: 1.8" by 1.8"
• Year: 1" by 0.5"

Thanksgiving card 2019

Materials Used:

• Autumn Paper Pack by Steven Duncan from Carta Bella (currently unavailable, so this is what I would recommend)
• Turkey is from Create a Critter in Cricut design space
• Cut Align Ruler
• Tim Holtz Stamping Platform
• Distress Ink Vintage Photo
• Mini Messages from Cardz TV stamps

Dimensions Used:

• Card Base: 4.25" by 5.5"
• Dark Brown Mat: 4" by 5.25"
• Printed Mat: 3.75" by 5"
• Turkey: 2.1" by 2.7"
• Scalloped oval frame: 3" by 4"

Here is a link to the project in Cricut Design Space if you would like to re-create this project: https://design.cricut.com/#/design/183574826

How to create a mermaid birthday card

Materials Used:

• Mermaid Image
• Waves Image
• Cloud Border
• Stencil material
• Distress Oxide Ink: peacock feathers, broken china, and faded blue jeans
• Make-up brushes
• Chloe font used in cricut design space

Dimensions Used:

• Card Base: 4.25" by 5.5"
• Dark Blue mat: 4" by 5.25"
• Sky background: 3.75" by 5"

How to offset text in inkscape the easy way

Materials Needed: 

• Inkscape
• Font of your choice from dafont
• A labtop or PC computer of your choice. I love my Microsoft Pro 4, so I would recommend a Microsoft Pro 7. 
• Cricut Design Space

How to size and center the front and back of a tshirt

Materials Used:

• Dwight Schrute head
• Bernard MT Condensed font used for the bears, beat, battle star Galatia 
• Dunder Mifflin logo used on the back of the t-shirt (for personal use only)
• Cricut everday vinyl white was used. I also recommend siser vinyl.
• Blue shirt was bought from Michaels craft store
• Cricut easy press 2

Dimensions used:

Follow the sizing in the chart above.

I used a medium adult t-shirt.

• Dwight front of shirt was 5.5" by 9.7"
• Dunder Mifflin logo was 10" by 4.7"

Price is right costume tutorial

Materials Needed:

• Price is right logo
• Name tag for the price is right
• Yard Sale Marker font by DJB Fonts
• Parchment paper
• Cricut easy press 2 or a heat press

• t-shirts
• vinyl: yellow, black and red (I recommend Cricut vinyl or Siser easyweed)

Dimensions Used:

• Price is right logo: 6.9" by 6.3"
• Name Tag: 7.7" by 4.7"

Halloween bat card 2019

Materials Used:

• Bat Image
• Vintage Halloween scrapbook paper (limited supplies online, but can buy in store from AC Moore)
• Recollections Halloween Stamp Sentiment for inside the card (act now, limited quantities available)
• EEK sentiment (currently unavailable, but I recommend this other stamp set)
• Bat Stamps (currently unavailable, but I recommend this other stamp set)
• Tim Holtz Stamping Platform
• Cut Align Ruler
• Art glitter glue

Dimensions used:

Card Base: 4.25" by 5.5"

Black Mat: 4" by 5.25"

Bat Mat: 3.75" by 5"

Squirrel Birthday Card

Materials needed: 

• Acrylic Paint: light blue, white, dark green, light green (buy from Walmart, it is the cheapest there)
• Squirrel image (currently free on Miss Kate Cuttables)
• Black yarn (I would re-do this card with a thinner string such as sewing machine string)

 Dimensions Used:

• Card base: 4.25" by 5.5"
• Green mat: 4" by 5.25"
• Painted background: 3.75" by 5" (make the background larger when painting and then cut it down to size)

Halloween haunted house card | Halloween bat card

To open this project in Cricut design space: https://design.cricut.com/#/design/172392604

Materials needed:

• Cricut acetate
• Halloween confetti (found cheaper in the Dollar Tree)
• Recollections Halloween Stamp (Currently cannot find it online)
• Versa Fine Black Onyx Ink
• Silhouette pick me up tool

Dimensions used:

• Card size: 4" circle
• Inside card sentiment: 3.75" circle

Owl Christmas Card

Materials needed:

• Acrylic Paint: Sky Blue and white (recommend buying from walmart since in store it is 2 bottles for $1.
• Paint brushes
• Santa Owl Image
• Warm winter wishes sentiment stamp (limited quantities)
• Inside of the card sentiment
• tim holtz stamping platform

Dimensions Used:

• card base: 4.25 in. by 5.5 in.
• light blue mat: 4 in. by 5.25 in.
• arcylic paint background mat: 3.75 in. by  5 in. (start out with a larger size when painting and then cut it down to size)    

How to get downloaded fonts into inkscape

I hope that you enjoy this video on how to get your fonts to show up into inkscape if they are missing.

Coordinate grid for lining up stamps

Materials:
grids  (links to microsoft word)
Grids
Cricut acetate
Transparency film
Black fine tip sharpie
yellow sharpie

Dafont Tutorial: Learn how to download your own fonts and get them into canvas

Learn how to download fonts onto your computer and load them onto canvas workspace.

Glow in the dark Halloween card

Materials Used:

• Ms. Sparkle & Co. Spider web (can buy in store from Joann Fabrics; link is to a different background stamp that I recommend)
• Spider die cut
• Beware sentiment
• Recollections Halloween stampset (if you dare... sentiment)
• Recollections Halloween Stampset spiders
• Glow in the dark embossing powder
• heat gun
• cricut black pen
• cricut white vinyl

Dimensions used:

• Card base: 4.25" by 5.5"
• Grey mat: 4" by 5.25"
• Black mat: 3.75" by 5"
• Spider: 2.78" by 2"
• Beware sentiment: 3" by 1.6" (Be sure to cut this out in vinyl. I had the best luck with cricut vinyl.)

Game changer for stampers and a must have item

Discover what item is a game changer for stampers that is under $5 on amazon. This is a small, but mighty item that can be used to save your project from mistakes. I now keep this tool close by when I am stamping.

To purchase the item on amazon: click here

Panda bear birthday card

At the end of the video is a very good warning about art glitter glue. I hope you enjoy the video. 

Materials used:

• Mama elephant panda bear stamps 
• Cardz TV mini messages stampset 
• Jillibean soup Christmas stampset (very limited stock available)
• Ms. sparkles and company happy birthday stampset (buy from Joann's Fabrics in-store only)
• Altenew Beautiful inside stampset (inside sentiment)
• Distress oxide: broken china and lucky clover
• Tim Holtz stamping platform
• Green swirled paper was from creative memories, no longer available. I recommend this green paper from Hobby Lobby.
• light green ribbon (probably cheaper to buy in the store)

Dimensions used:

• card base: 4.25" by 5.5"
• solid dark green mat: 4" by 5.25"
• green swirled background: 3.75" by 5"
• oval: 3.75" by 2.75"

How to convert a photograph into an SVG using inkscape and an online converter

Learn how to convert a picture to an SVG using inkscape and online converters. You decide which image and method that you like the best.

Original image

https://picsvg.com/

inkscape

https://svgcreator.com

Which one did you like the best?

How to use advanced features in Cricut design space

Learn how to use advanced features in Cricut design space to avoid getting a hole when uploading an image in Cricut design space. This video will show you an easy way on how to upload your image in Cricut design space.

Materials used:

• Toad image (license for personal use only)

How to make a Christmas shaker card 2019

Materials Used:

• Polar bear in the snow image
• Recollections noel Christmas stamps (front sentiment)
• Hero arts Merry Christmas messages (inside of card)
• Cricut acetate 
• snowflakes for the shaker card
• beads for shaker card
• art glitter glue
• glue bottle
• foam tape
• white and black acrylic paint (buy in store from walmart, they had it for $0.50)
• paint brushes
• paint tray palette
• recollection card stock is used

Dimensions Used:

• Card Base: 4.25" by 5.5"
• Dark grey mat: 4" by 5"
• Snow background: start with 4.25" by 5.5" to paint then trim down to 3.75" by 5"
• Cut out circle: 3.111"

How to have your cricut draw and cut out an image in design space while creating a Christmas card

Materials needed:

• Making cookies for Santa sentiment
• Peppermint and tree cookie
• Bo Bunny Dear Santa Collection 6x6 paper pad
• Art glitter glue

Dimensions Used:

• Card base is 4.25" by 5.5"
• Dark blue mat is 4" by 5.25"
• Christmas cookie paper is 3.75" by 5"
• Making cookies for santa sentiment is 3.3" by 4.9"
• Tree cookie is 0.8" by 0.9"
• Peppermint cookie is 0.7" by 0.7"

How to transfer an image in canvas to the brother scan n cut machine.

Learn how to put in image on a USB thumbdrive to transfer it to the brother scan n cut machine. BONUS: learn my vinyl secrets.

Materials needed:

• Green removable vinyl
• Gold removable vinyl
• Transfer tape

Creating a dinosaur monogram

Learn how to use fonts for the online version of brother scan and cut. Discover how to create a dinosaur monogram that you can in turn learn how to create your own monogram with your own image.

Materials needed:

• Dinosaur image
• Monogram Font

Learn how to convert the dinosaur image into an SVG using inkscape.

Does the MISTI Creative Corners work with the Tim Holtz Stamping Platform?

I hope that you enjoy this demonstration of using the MISTI creative corners in the Tim Holtz Stamping Platform. This video will demonstrate different techniques and hangs ups that may occur with using the travel and regular sized Tim Holtz Stamping Platform.

Materials:

• MIST Creative Corners
• Tim Holtz Stamping Platform Regular/Large size
• Tim Holtz Stamping Platform Travel Size
• Tim Holtz Stamping Platform Protective Sleeve Regular/Large size
• Tim Holtz Stamping Platform Protective Sleeve Travel Size

Lighthouse Retirement Card

Materials Needed:

• Acrylic Paint: light blue, dark blue, light brown, brown, black, white, pink, green, gold
• lighthouse image
• Cardztv mixed messages stamp set
• paint brushes

Dimensions Used:

• Card Base: 4.25 in. by 5.5 in.
• Painting card front: 4.25 in. by 5.5 in.