8" Personalized Letters using Cricut's Chip Decor

When I found out that my good friend was looking to decorate her sweet little boy's nursery with stand alone letters I knew I wanted to do this for her.  She wanted a simple "block" font and Hobby Lobby has the perfect chip decor letters to spell out his adorable name. She wanted a Nautical theme design so I looked for inspiration on Etsy and by surfing the web.  

For the embellishments I found these little painted cut-outs at Hobby Lobby ready to go for my project.  

The color pattern is pulled out of his bedding and other room decor.  So…when planning for a job like this…take all of those designs into consideration to create the perfect project!  To assist me in designing these letters I pulled out my Chip Decor Cricut cartridge and cut my paper at 8". 

 Easy Peasy….

I painted the sides and backs of each letter in coordinating paper color and once dry I used Mod Podge to adhere the letters in place.  

For the C I used one sheet of golden yellow stitching lines with navy sharpie marker.

For the A I cut a navy blue and blue striped pattern paper - cut both in half and mod podged each side down. I used my navy blue sharpie and white Galaxy marker for stitch lines.

For the R I cut one in golden yellow and another in the damask pattern paper.
I hand cut/trimmed  the R about 1/4 inch smaller so the yellow would show around edges.

For the T -- I cut out of white and used my navy blue sharpie for stitch lines. 

For the E -- I cut blue striped paper and golden yellow -- just trimming to adhere the parts I wanted.
Navy blue sharpie for stitch lines.

For the R -- I cut navy blue -- stitching with white Galaxy marker.  

 The Chip Decor cartridge is sold exclusively at Hobby Lobby along with the chip board letters in a variety of sizes.  Also, you can find phrases and a few designs on this cartridge. 

Sold Exclusively at Hobby Lobby

To hang these letters on the wall I'm going to recommend the Command Strips.  They are fantastic for these types of jobs and no holes in the wall.  YAY!  

Thanks for stopping by today!  

♥Tracy

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{Kid Bag} Names Tags + Free Printable

Kids have bags for everything including back packs, school stuff, sports, after school activities and when they leave home with something we want them to bring that back home, right? Today I'm sharing a cute idea of how to make some personalized name tags using blank business cards and plastic name badge sleeves.  

I've also included a free printable of this darling little boy down below.  

These durable plastic name badge sleeves are very versatile and I use them for so many projects.  Like this one I did a while back for labeling craft supplies. (click here to see that post)

 (They come in a pkg. of 10 and I buy them in the office supply section of Wal-Mart) or you can see them here from Office Depot.

I love using blank business cards for all sorts of things including name tags like this.  Since they are perforated it's easy to design, print and tear them apart.

2 x 3 1/2" Business Cards - Avery #5371

I printed an entire sheet of these (10 total), layered it on scrapbook paper and inserted it into the name badge sleeve.  I used a notebook ring (like these) to attach to his bag.  I put a card on the front and back so no matter which way the tag lays anyone can see his name. 

Here is a free printable for your personal use.  The adorable little boy is from Scrappin' Doodles Summer Stick Kids 2 collection

Just right click on the image and choose "save as" to your computer. Or you can open it in a new window and save as. 

To add this and make your own Business Cards -- open up a Document and find a template for Avery #5371.  Find this graphic on your computer and select insert or choose.  Adjust the size as you need to.  To personalize the name of the child insert a Text Box and choose a font.

The font I used for Spencer is Larger Mime.

Print off of your computer and your good to go.   

Enjoy!

♥Tracy

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All Star Team Baseball Bats {Project}

Baseball is a big deal in my county and my community supports our young boys and girls who play hard all season long and it's a great honor to be selected for one of the All Star teams that go on to play through the summer months.  For several years I've created some hand-painted items that will hang on the fence, dugout or other places the teams play.  

I wanted to share these creations with you this year I received as a custom order.  ☺

Here are a few other projects I've created:

All-Star Baseballs

All-Star Baseballs & Car Painting

Decorating Car with Vinyl

More Car Decorating

• black electric tape for handles of each bat

find in electric supply
section of the store

• black suede lace for hanging bats

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• Ceramcoat Paints (green and black)

• Stickles - Crystal for highlighting personalization

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• Ceramcoat Gloss Exterior/Interior Varnish

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Have a great day everyone and thanks for reading!
♥Tracy
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{Personalized} Kids Beach Chair using Vinyl

Turn an ordinary kid's beach chair into an extra-ordinary gift by adding a name using vinyl.  Everyone loves having their name on their “stuff”.  I guess it's a sense of ownership and letting everyone know “that’s mine!”.  ☺

Supplies

• kids beach chair - Wal-Mart
• white vinyl
• painters tape or transfer tape
• name (Caden) - Sesame Street Font - Sunny Day 

I cut out the name using my die cutting machine cricut and Sunny Day font found on Sesame Street Font cartridge.  To cut vinyl -- my settings are speed 4 and pressure 2 on my machine for the “kiss cut”.  I also used the multi-cut of 2 to get an extra kiss cut.  I used the painter’s tape to transfer the name to the chair.  

To finish.....

Add a beach towel and you have the perfect gift for a special little person.  It would be fun to add sunglasses, water bottle, flip flops or more summer items.   Make it fun!

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer!  

♥ Tracy

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Teacher Appreciation Gable Box

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I'm excited to share my Teacher Appreciation Gable box as part of the monthly design team project post for My Pink Stamper.  You can check out all of our projects here.

Supplies:

• 1 - Kraft colored Gable Box - Target's Dollar Spot
• Designer Paper in school/teacher design
• 4 red buttons
• black cardstock
• yellow rick rack
• apple die cut - Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge
• white gelly roll pen
• "Whisper White" ink by Stampin' Up for sentiments
• Sentiment - "World's Best Teacher" & "I Love You, Teacher" - School Days collection by My Pink Stamper
• various ribbons

Directions:

• Lay gable box flat and measure paper the size you would like.  Cut with scissors or trimmer to the size around the bottom of the box.  Glue down around box. You may need to piece the paper together to get it to pattern around the box (this is what I did).
• Measure black cardstock on angle of box and cut out with scissors; doodle with white pen, stamp one side World's Best Teacher and other side "I Love You, Teacher". Gllue onto box.
• Glue yellow rick rack around top edge of box.
• Cut out one apple from Doodlecharms at 1 1/2".  Doodle with white gelly roll pen. I used one pop dot to give the apple more dimension.  Place in center of box. 
• Form box
• Add buttons with glue dots
• Fill box with your gift, trinket, gift card or special treat.
• Tie box closed with various coordinating ribbons.

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Monogrammed Cards - My Pink Stamper Design Team Day!

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Welcome to the February 2012 edition of the My Pink Stamper's Design Team projects hosted by Robyn, My Pink Stamper.


Today -- our projects are all about using as many My Pink Stamper stamps as we could -- that was a pretty big challenge because Robyn has tons of great ones in her collections.


I decided to create a set of monogrammed cards just to have "on hand" when I need to grab one for a quick gift.  I use lots of little cards to stick in gifts and here and there -- so these are simple and perfect!  

Create cards to have "on hand" to grab as you need them for last minute needs!

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Door Knob Valentine Treat Holder - Video #178

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As craft bloggers we always try to figure out new projects to share with our wonderful viewers and followers each and every project.  Sometimes it's a little easier than others…..sometimes we are a little "stumped" -- other times the ideas "flow like a river"….right now I'm in a little crafting funk so to say…..

I'm not sure where the inspiration for this project came from -- I can just share with you that it turned out better than I expected!  For real.  I thought about making a project -- hmmm…kind of like a "countdown to valentine's day" thing -- but scratched that.  As I was scanning my craft supplies….I spotted these door hangers in my abundant supply of fun foam and thought "I really needed to do something with all of those hangers -- one day" -- then the light bulb turned on….what could I make out of them for a v-day project????  -- The project below evolved from there.  My first thought was to make one for each of my kids to hang on their bedroom door and maybe "the cupid fairy" (kind of like the tooth fairy and St. Nick) would bring each of them a "goodie" on valentine's day…..slip it in their treat holder that hangs delightfully on their bedroom door and they would be super excited when they woke up on Valentine's Day…..pretty nifty idea, huh? -- 

Here is the idea and you can expand it to make it what you wish….LOL!!

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Door Knob Valentine Treat Holder

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{Pink-alicous Blog Hop} - January 2012

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Welcome to the first 2012 Pink-alicous Blog Hop hosted by My Pink Stamper. If you're following the hop you should have arrived from Alex's blog -- if not you can click here to start at the beginning so you don't miss the details.

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Alright….let's start….

The theme is all about "new" and "fresh" ideas for the new year.  You're in for a real treat from the entire design team, for sure!  You'll see lots of fabulous projects!!

For me.

As I begin almost every other year -- this year was no different.  I promise myself to get more organized, be a better person, mom and wife.  This year I thought I'd make me a little journaling notebook to keep "track" of various tips, inspiration, words of wisdom, or ideas that will help me reach or keep these goals.  You know….all of those words of wisdom from facebook, pinterest, other blogs…etc. that I run across.

Ta-daaaa....
simple. cute. and functional.

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Fall Craft Show Pictures….a look back!

I was looking through some old digital pictures of craft show crafts and thought it may be fun to share with you some of the pictures from one of my biggest shows I did in 2003 -- I would have forgotten the year but they are included on the photos so it was a great reminder.  Gosh, time flies.  I remember this show very well and sold out of most of my wood crafts.  Good times!  One day when Spencer is older I will get back into do more craft shows.  It's in my blood.

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Bedtime Pass & Video #171

I was totally inspired to create one of these for Spencer when I saw this one here and then the ones here.


There are times we have issues with Spencer getting out of bed for a "drink of water" or "he forgot to tell  us something" or just the satisfaction of getting up after bedtime. We're hoping this may help deter his trips out of the bed after lights out.   


I even made a video for today's project -- sorry, I've been MIA in making video's but life is very busy and it takes a bit of time to film, edit and upload a video so I'm happy I had the time today.  :)  

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{ Altered Journals } for Teacher's Gifts

I've been wanting to play around with some altered journals for sometime now -- I see so many cute designs and almost everyone makes them look so super simple -- so when I found these I knew I would give it a try.  I found the journals at Family Dollar (love that store), the flap (where the name is) has a "magnet" closure - super simple to use.  It then opens like a book with lots of pages with lines inside.  


I made these for Spencer's new pre-school teacher and classroom aide for him to give as a gift on the first day of school.  Just as a "welcome and wishing you a great year" kind of gift.  I {love} how they turned out.  


These were purchased (covered) in the designs you see here -- I just added the white vinyl and tags.  :)

 Supplies

• white vinyl 
• font for vinyl ~ "Pooh Font" by Cricut
• boy and 2 girls digital images by Scrappin' Doodles
• font for circle - Baa Baa Book
• sentiment - "Teach a Child * Change a life" (designed printed on my computer)
• 3 inch scalloped punch
• 3 inch circle punch
• ink and pens for doodling

I'd LOVE to hear what you think about my first altered journal! 

I hope you find them inspirational.  


♥ Tracy

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{Personalized} Teacher Classroom Wreath

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During my craft show days I created lots of personalized items including many of these {personalized} wreaths for teacher's classrooms.  I proudly say that lots of area teachers have one of these personalized wreaths to grace their classroom door or inside their class room or something similar.  I try to make each one a little different using various ribbons and embellishments or changing the color of the banner board {border} color…..but this design/layout is the most popular including the banner, 2 apples and chalkboard. 

Now….I only create these by special request and had a kindergarten teacher contact me to create one for her classroom this year -- 

I hope you don't mind me sharing…

Each wreath features wood cut outs *by Mr. CJToo* and I hand paint everything you see (except the chalkboard I purchase at the craft store) I also do lots of doodling with my paint brushes and black marker.  I attach the finished wood to a grapevine wreath using wire.  I also like to give my finished projects a glossy look so I use a high gloss sealer.

My bus is cut from Cricut - Stretch You Imagination at 1 1/2"

Thanks for stopping by today everyone!  

Big Hugs!

♥Tracy

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Monogrammed Tags

I wanted to share some tags I created for myself that I thought would be the perfect addition to just about anything including gifts, bags, a goodie bag, baked item, etc.  Sometimes I want something a little different to attach to the gift I am giving.  Cards are nice….but sometimes I want something a little more simple…. and thought these would be perfect.  Including my initial makes it even more personalized and special.  The back side is blank so its perfect to jot down a little note…..

You can makes these for just about anyone!

• Tag - page 90 Cricut - "Tags Bags Boxes and More" {designed on my Gypsy cut at 2.90}
• striped pattern paper
• tags and heart - cream cardstock
• 2" scalloped circle - brown cardstock
• 1 1/2" circle - green cardstock
• folk heart punch - "The Paper Studio"
• white and brown ink and wash( for shading)
• various coordinating ribbons
• brown and white twine
• brown markers
• white gelly roll pen
• "From the Heart" stamp - Yummy-licous set by My Pink Stamper
• "For You" stamp - Yummy-licous set by My Pink Stamper
• "T" monogram stamp - stash
• pop dots used on heart and under brown scalloped circle for added height

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