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Happy Thursday everyone! Carrie with designed to be crafty again showing you how to make your own fun custom graphic printable vinyl signs. I don't know how the weather is where you live, but I'm in a suburb of Chicago and its FINALLY starting to warm up here and act like summer. No seriously, last week was 40 degrees and rainy every.single.day. I kinda have this thing for always having a fun seasonal sign hanging on my front door. Check out my instagram feed @designedtobecrafty so you see my fu …

So I might be one of the last people on the planet to finally watch Moana. We are avid Netflix watchers and when I saw that as a new option I was super excited and the kids and I sat down to watch it. Cut to 20 viewings later and I'm still in love with the movie!! I also can't get the beautiful music out of my head, I'm constantly singing it around the house (annoying my husband!) haha. I thought it would be fun to make a piece of art for the house using my favorite quote from the film. "See …

Hey, guys, it's Jessica with ExpressionsVinyl.com. And today I want to help you overcome your fear of making your first cut on your Silhouette machine!I hear all the time that, "Oh, I have a machine, it's sitting in my closet," or, "Oh, I'm too scared to pull it out. "I don't know what to do."So we're going to get you over that today because I don't want your machine just collecting dust. You want to be creating and crafting and finding the pleasure that is in that. I'm going to hold yo …

Hey guys, it’s Jessica from expressionsvinyl.com and today I want to talk to you about the knife tool. Some people also call it the slicing tool.So let me show you how it works and maybe why you would want to use it. So I'm just going to type my name here and then I am gonna fill it in so you guys can see a little better what I'm doing. Okay, we've got that set and now, I'm going to go over and select my knife along the left hand side. I am using the basic Silhouette Studio softwa …

Hey guys, It's Jessica over ExpressionsVinyl.com and today I want to show you how to layer a project when you can't quite see through the transfer tape.It's no secret that paper transfer tape is my favorite. It's really easy to work with and releases perfectly. So when you've got tight little lines that you need to line up and it's really obvious if you're off, I've got a trick to do that so it's lined up perfectly.I've got one already set up, so you can see my different layers. I've got my …