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Tracking The Leprechaun
Last year my daughter made a Leprechaun trap at school. We set it out but we didn't catch the little guy. He is super sneaky. We will set out the trap again this year along with Drake's trap, double whammy! We, (the adults) thought it would be fun to use some Oracal Removable Indoor Vinyl to play along with the sneaky Leprechaun. So we are printing little foot prints and initials for the kids "pot of gold".I went to the dollar store and bought a green mug along with some candy. I had some r
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Mar 12th 2014
Spring Vase With Easy Vinyl Flowers
ilhouette Studio softwareHi everyone! I’m Melissa and you can always find me over my blog A Prudent Life, where I do tons of frugal DIY projects. I’d love you to stop by and say hi!After the cold winter, I thought we could all use a dose of spring. I’m going to show you how I transformed a $1 vase into a custom colorful piece using my Silhouette and some pretty vinyl.Here is the before:And here is the vinyl I used (colors listed as shown left to right).Oracal 631: Mint,Maize,Geyser Blue,Sof
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Mar 4th 2014
St. Patrick'S Day Tshirts
I am always the one who forgets to wear green on St. Patrick's Day! Always. And someone always notices and pinches me. :( And now that I have two little ones, I want to be sure that they don't have to experience St. Patrick's day without wearing green!So I took this opportunity to whip up a couple of cute St. Patrick's Day tshirts for my kiddos.We used stripflocked heat transfer vinyl in green for my son, and glitter heat transfer vinyl in light green for my daughter.And I let my children he
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Feb 23rd 2014
Love Is Patient…
Happy Valentine's Day!Today, I want to share a subway art that I created. My favorite verse of all time is "Love is patient, Love is kind..." I wanted to create something that was dear to my heart as well as share with others.With "love' being in the air, I made this sign! To do this, you will need a piece of wood that's 11.5"x36". You can use whatever size you desire, but I chose mine to be on the bigger side. I then stained my board. This can be done a few different ways. The way that I stain
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Feb 13th 2014
O Come Let Us Adore Him Christmas Craft
About a month or so ago, my mom and I decided that it was time to get started on some simple Christmas gifts for friends and neighbors. I had recently created a sign for a church activity that I loved and I knew we could change it up a bit to create a smaller more manageable version that would be perfect for gift giving!So after a little tweaking, shrinking, cutting sanding and painting...we came up with the perfect base to apply silver vinyl that says "O Come Let Us Adore Him."We used a nice 1
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Nov 24th 2013