I wanted to share something different today. Today I'm going to share the birthday card I made for my son's 18th birthday. I can't take credit for the design ~ it's something I found on Pinterest. If you want to see the original idea, you can see it HERE; it came from JulieH on the Cricut message board.
The card is a 6x6 square with the fold at the top. The yellow mat is cut using the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge exclusively from Close to my Heart at 5.87" wide. The "happy birthday" mat is cut using the same cartridge but at 5.75" wide.
The "18" is cut from the Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge and cut again using the shadow feature at 5.5" tall. "Jonathan" was cut from the font on the Wild Card Cricut cartridge and welded using my Gypsy. I played with the size until I was happy with the way it lay over the 18; I would make it a different size if using a different length name. As JulieH explained in her original directions, I cut Jonathan three times, ran them through my Xyron, and attached them together to make it thicker.
On the inside, I cut a mat from the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge at 5.75" wide. The sentiment is cut at 5.5" wide from the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge.
Here are the supplies I used:
Cricut Expression
Xyron Creative Station
Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge from Close to my Heart
Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge
Wild Card Cricut cartridge
Create a Critter Cricut cartridge
Black cardstock (from my stash)
Yellow cardstock from Hobby Lobby
Multi Colored Bday Words from The Paper Studio
Solid Glitter - Silver from The Paper Studio
Solid Glitter - Turquoise from The Paper Studio
Clouds from Colorbok
Hope to see you back at my blog soon! Stop back tomorrow as I'll have some more of my scrapbooking layouts.
During wrestling season this year, my son hit a big career-mark - 150 wins. To celebrate, I had ready my first ever Cricut-cut vinyl shirt for him. After his win, his younger sister ran out on the mat to present him with the shirt (so mom and dad could video and take pictures). Great senior memory for us!
I used Cricut Craft Room while designing this shirt. The letters were "double layered" to make them two colors; I "hid" anything I did not want cut as I cut each color. The words on the front were cut from the Varisty Letter Cricut cartridge at 1.097" tall. The wrestlers are the blackout version from Sports Mania cut at 3.889" tall.
I purchased the metallic heat-transfer vinyl from Coastal Business Supplies. They had great service and were super-fast with the shipping. The metallic doesn't photograph very well, but it sure looks great in person!
Both the "150+" and the "career wins" were welded together in Cricut Craft Room and then made to fit to 11.5" wide for the back of the shirt. The 150 and career wins were cut using the Varsity Letter Cricut cartridge. The + was cut from Plantin Schoolbook.
I was very pleased with how well this turned out. The vinyl was surprisingly easy to work with. With all my settings at 3, it produced a perfect "kiss-cut" leaving the backing intact which made "weeding" and then the placement/ironing very easy.
Hope you have a safe St. Patrick's Day and get some crafting done in between all the "March Madness".
My son has really "clicked" with his new wrestling teammates. He has started a running joke among them, and many of them now call him Superfish ~ it's a long story. Anyway, for Christmas, my son received a black t-shirt with a blue Superman logo on the front of it. The first thing out of his mouth was that he wanted to put Superfish on the back of it.
The blue logo on the front was not one that I thought I would be able to match with iron-on letters, so acrylic paint and my Cricut to the rescue.
I cut the "superfish" word at 1.5" from the shadow feature of Plantin Schoolbook font onto vinyl. I put the vinyl onto the shirt to use as a template. I used acrylic paint and covered it very lightly to "seal the edges" so paint didn't seep underneath. Once that was dry, I gave it two more coats of paint. Once they were all dry, I set it with the iron.
Voila! Simple. And one happy teenager.
