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Valentine'S Day Subway Art
I am already getting excited for Valentine's Day and this year I wanted to add a little Valentine's Day Subway Art to my home.So with a couple different colors of fab vinyl from Expressions Vinyl, and a spare frame, I was able to come up with this cute subway art:When I showed my husband he said "How did you get that 3D look with the vinyl?" He was on the other side of the room. :)For this project I actually adhered my vinyl directly to the glass in the photo frame and put plain scrapbook pape
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Jan 22nd 2012
Vinyl Bats
HI! Kim here....I thought I would do a little Halloween craft with my vinyl from ExpressionsVinyl.comSomething fast and easy and a quick clean up (i'm a lazy decorator!)We have been talking all about using ding bats with our SCAL on my blog (you can go HERE to read the 411)and I found these fun Halloween fonts:I used these great Halloween dingbats that had a bunch of different bats...I just picked the one I wanted and made it all different sizes....and ran it through the cricut...when you c
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Oct 19th 2011
Flower Vases Turned Fall Decor
We all have at least one of these flower vases laying around right? You get flowers in them and then they are so tall and narrow you don't know how to use them again....until now.First step is simple but so important, clean the vases very well so that the vinyl adheres.Then take a few colors of Oracal 631 (3 or more) and cut them in to strips 12 inches long. I cut them in 1/4 inch 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch wide strips.Next start wrapping them around the vases I kept a color order but varied th
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Oct 2nd 2011
Spookbatular Garland
Hi! It's Ashley stopping by from Simply Designing. I am so excited to share a Halloween post with you today. This is actually the first Halloween post I have done this year!Now, I don't know how you are feeling but a part of me is really not ready for fall, or Halloween, while the other part of me can't wait to pull out all my fall decor! I love the fall, it is my favorite season, but I am also not quite ready to let go of summer yet. However, since the temperature recently took a +30 degre
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Sep 18th 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