Other Projects I Created Recently

Here are a couple of the projects I made over the last few weeks.

I really love vintage canisters, but most of them don't seal closed and that bothers me. I found these canisters and bottles at IKEA for a few dollars a piece. They have rubbers in the lid to seal them closed, but they're rather plain. I decided to add a vintage touch to them by making vinyl labels on my Cricut. 

Now that I have a house, I have a laundry room! Which is very exciting to me personally, because I used to have to go out to the patio of my apartment to do laundry. That was not fun in the rain. Or ever. I've been decorating our new laundry room with aqua and orange. I don't particularly like orange, but I love this color combo.

This is my "How To Do Laundry" sign. I designed it in Illustrator and then printed and framed it for my laundry room. My husband really wanted a list of all my rules for doing laundry and I wanted cute artwork for that room. This is one of my favorite things I've designed. If you want one, you can order it from my Etsy store in any color: www.etsy.com/listing/120520331/how-to-do-laundry-signart-print-in I also sell a horizontal version.

How To Do Laundry Sign

I made this laundry room vinyl sticker with my Cricut.

This 4 panel artwork I made by painting all the canvases white and then laying out my Cricut cut vinyl design over the canvases and spray painting it orange. I really like how this turned out.

Bird on a Branch four panel canvas

Wedding Shadowbox

I saw something like this somewhere and it inspired me to make this. It's a shadowbox filled with stuff from my wedding that I wanted to display, but keep safe. This was pretty easy and fun to make and I love looking at it hanging in our hallway.

 Materials:
12"x12" Shadowbox (about 1" thick)
Scrapbook paper for the background
Tape
Pins
Accessories you want to display





My shadow box included my veil, garter, hair comb, my husband's sheriff badge (we got married on a ranch), our program and one of the bookmarks that we gave as favors. The hardest part of making this was figuring out how to lay it all out so that everything could be seen, but look nice all together. As a rule thumb, the larger objects should go in the background and the smaller objects on top. Layering the items adds interest, just don't block anything important. And you should definitely try to use a contrasting background color paper. If all your items are light, use a dark background and if they're all dark, use a light background.


After playing around with it for about 20 minutes, I settled on this.

First, I laid the program down in the background and taped it to the background paper. Then, I taped down the comb of my veil so that the comb was under the fabric. I knew the book mark would cover this so I wasn't worried about about the tape showing. Then I attached my garter and the comb. These were trickier because I didn't want any tape or anything showing. I used sewing pins and poked them through the garter and comb and into the cardboard backing. If you get a shadowbox with a fabric background, it would be easier to attach. My shadowbox was pretty cheap, so it only had cardboard in the back. It was a little more difficult to get the pins to go through, but not impossible. I put the pins through the inside of the garter and folded it down so they won't show.

 The sheriff badge already had a pin on the back, so I just stuck that through. For the bookmark, I knew it would be pressed against the glass by my veil, but just to keep it from shifting after I close it up, I added folded over tape to the back of it.

Lastly, I decided that the top of the box looked a little bare, so I cut out a little calendar from a piece of scrapbook paper and circled our wedding date.

Then all I had to do was carefully put the frame around it and hang it without letting anything move. It took a couple tries to close it without letting anything move, but I think it's worth it! Just don't hang it in direct sunlight wear it will fade your precious items.

The Nikon D7000 is the camera I use for all my blog photos.