Cricut Project #1

Here is my first Cricut project.

My very cute niece just celebrated a special day. Her first name begins with an H. I found an initial block at Michaels and decorated it for her.

I used the Tinkerbell Cart for the butterflies and Plantin SchoolBook Cart for the tag.





The paper is by Making Memories. I wanted to use girly colors but I also wanted them to be bright and cheerful. I think it turned out cute.

I discovered a few problems and it turned into a much bigger project then I initially planned for. My first problem was I did not have a font that matched up with the letter.

Lucky me I have a Computer minded hubby. Who loves to play and figure things out. Using a software program that is out on the market he was able to match the fonts up. I haven't purchased the program yet because there are a couple different ones and I'm not sure which one I want to get.

The two programs are SCAL and Make the Cut.

Have you heard of them? Which one do you prefer?

Merry Christmas!

Guess what I got for Christmas?

Guess what I got after three years of wanting?

Three years of reading every scrap of information.

Three years of watching infomercials.

Three years of driving my husband a bit batty.

Driving him to the point that not only did he give in but begged and pleaded that I accepted the gift.

:)

Did you guess?

Yup, Krissi got a Cricut.

Which I'm sure all the people I have driven crazy are a bit thankful. I can finally leave them alone and quit begging for their help. Though I appreciate their help because it proved to my husband that I just couldn't survive without a Cricut.

In addition to the Cricut I now have a Gypsy.

I am officially Happy. Not that I needed a Cricut and a Gypsy to be happy but you know it doesn't hurt.

I can't wait to show you the projects I have been working on. Also, share some of the many Blogs that I have found featuring some very cool Cricut projects.

Sewing Patches

This birthday my son turned 11 and in my world and his world that means that he moves from cub scouts to the world of scouting.

Let me tell you the very first thing that I learned as a mom of an 11 year old scout.

This is a whole new world of boy. Boy stuff that leaves us moms with question marks and a few of @#$!@# these floating in our brain. There is a whole language associated with scouting not to mention a whole new way to spend money. You thought those video games were expensive just wait until you go by a scout shirt.

Scout shirt, a badge, a few more badges, oh and don't forget the . . . the list goes on. Once you recover from the shock of the amount money you just dropped on Scouting you get the joy and the privilege of sewing all of those doo hickeys onto said shirt.

Adding insult to injury, while my son is trying to earn merit badges and a host of other things that I don't understand and feel their is a strong possibility I don't care to understand, there is no merit badge or award for me having to figure out where all these thingys go and sewing them on correctly.

Frustration, thy name is Scout Badges. Finally, I'm getting to the reason why this is on this blog. After sewing and unpicking and resewing I finally figured out how to sew the buggers on and keep them in place.

Friend, thy name is Tacky Glue. That is right I took a handy dandy bottle of tacky glue and glued all those badges into place. After an hour I sewed everything down. Nothing moved and if I do say so myself it looked great.

Oh I hear some of you saying why didn't I just by the things that make it so you can iron on the badges? Because that stuff does not wash well. In fact when the lady at the scout office tried to sell me the iron on magic badge junk. I specifically asked, "How does it hold up in the wash?" She answered by telling me how easy it was to adhere the patches, so I asked her again, "How does it hold up in the wash?" She answered by telling me how many patches I could iron on per package. After that I decided to just sew them on.

All I have left to say is Tacky Glue may help me survive this scouting world.