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Singing in the Rain, Polka Dot Rain Boots
Hi! I am so happy to be joining you here today on
Expressions Vinyl Blog! I am a huge fan of Expressions vinyl and I love their
products and was so excited when they asked me to share some of my favorite
projects made using their wonderful vinyl.I don't know about you or where you live, but I am
in Tampa Florida and in the summer it rains everyday! You can get pretty tired
of ruining your shoes stepping into a huge puddle. Needless to say I wear rain
boots all the time. I picked up a few c
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Jul 27th 2011
Dry Erase Letters
When my four year old was in preschool, his teacher told me that he wouldn't trace his letters. So I tried to work with him and he didn't want to trace them with me either. Soon, I learned that he loved to write on a dry erase board, so I came up with this idea so he could trace his letters.This is how I made it:1) I first cut out all 26 letters with my Silhouette. I mirrored all the letter hortizontally. I then cut the letters out of my powder blue Expressions vinyl.2) I then rubbed a
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Jul 24th 2011
Success!
I went and visited my sister......and she had recently painted a big bold strip on her son's wall....and wanted some words to stick up there.so I packed my Cricut up and got to work on my SCAL program.....I then cut it out using my Cricut and I used Oracal 631 Brown Vinyl and some Paper Transfer Tape....Applied it piece by piece because my Cricut is only a 12x6....remember to pull it at an angle --it helps SO MUCH!SO CUTE!!! but we took it a step forward...I had a Light
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Jul 21st 2011
Using Vinyl To Paint.
Hello this is Amber here and I'm going to be stopping by the Expressions Vinyl Blog every once in a while. Let me know what you think of my first project by leaving a comment below. Also if you want to see me do a specific project feel free to make suggestions.I don't know about you but I'm not to great at free-hand painting and this can make even the simplest of projects hard. But no longer, you just have to use a little vinyl in a non-traditional way.I wanted to make a sign that represented me
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Jul 5th 2011
Shadow box
it was cute...they are my daughter's shadow boxes...and we are currently trying to find a happy medium between little girl and teen.so I popped those little flowers off and painted the inside white(and dusted..they were totally almost gray)then I got my ExpresssionsVinyl 631 Gray Vinyl and using the grids on the back cut it to fit my cricut mat.I hopped on my scal (about the greatest invention ever) and made some designsI trimmed them down to 6x6.(these are just squares that I made into thi
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Jun 16th 2011