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Halloween Tile
Hi again!!! It's Kaysi, from Keeping it Simple. Today I'm going to show you how to make a 12x12 tile with Subway art. I love doing this and do it for every holiday. It's so fun and it's easy to switch out after each holiday.This is how I made it:1) I first sketch out what words, sizes and colors on a piece of paper. I know it sounds silly but to get things to fit, it's a must.2) Then I separated the words by color and used some fun fonts on my Silhouette studio program.
3) Next I cut the word
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Oct 4th 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
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
Flatware Caddy with vinyl - cut with a cricut machine.
Flatware Caddy with vinyl - cut with a cricut machine.Who is ready for summer? I know I am! The weather has just been a tease here lately. We have one nice beautiful warm day and then BAM! its snowing ~ or raining ~ or hailing. So in trying to beat the winter {spring} blues I decided to get cookout ready. I am so ready to fire up the grill and eat outside in the warm sunshine!So I wandering the isles of my local Target {my favorite pick-me-up} when I found this beauty! I photographs more b
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Apr 4th 2011