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

Halloween Plate Decals

For my second Halloween project, I wanted to make decorative plates. This was a pretty easy project. The most difficult part was designing the decals themselves, but there are plenty of graphics out there on the internet to use or you can just buy decals from a party store

Materials

Plates

SVG Files for Decals

Vinyl 

Transfer Tape or Masking Tape

Cricut

Sure Cuts A Lot Software

Exacto Knife

First, you'll need to setup the decals to cut. With your Cricut connected to your computer and the Sure Cuts A Lot software open and installed,
import the SVG file into Sure Cuts A Lot.

Measure the center of the plate where the decal will go and then scale your design to that size in Sure Cuts A Lot.

Cut the design with the proper settings in place. You want your blade to cut through the vinyl completely but not through the paper backing.  I had my blade pressure set to 3.

After you cut the design, peel out all the unnecessary parts left behind.

Then cut the design off the sheet of vinyl so you don't waste any vinyl and peel off the out part of the design.

Lay your transfer tape (or masking tape) over the design.

Peel the backing paper off the vinyl and place the it over the center of the plate. Smooth it over and slowly lift off the transfer tape. If the decal starts to lift off the plate  press the tape back down and rub that area better before continuing to lift it off.

The finished plates

I used the reversed portion of my pumpkin decal as a window decoration :-)