Room Signs

Well one more gift from this weekend. I made room signs for my two nephews. I found the base of the signs at the Dollar Tree. I painted them to match their taste.

I used Plantin Schoolbook for the letters. I typed their first names in the cricut and used the fit to length button to 5" so the cricut could calculate what size the letters should be. I cut the letter and then a shadow for the letters

Then on my younger nephew I cut the laying Pluto on the Mickey and Friends cartridge at 2.5" For the older nephew I just printed a logo from the net that he likes.

I used mod podge to adhere the letters and graphic/pluto to the boards. I then gave it two coats of mod podge to seal it.

Altered Birdhouse

We had our final Christmas over the weekend and I made my FIL and my husbands grandfather a birdhouse with pictures of my kids. I got this idea from the girls at Holidays with the Cricut. They give great instructions on how to make this.

I bought the birdhouses at the Dollar Tree but you could find them at Micahel's also. I painted them white and then went to my scrap box to find paper.

I used the following cricut cartridges: Storybook and Accent Essentials.

For the piece around the bird hole I used an accent from the Accent Essentials cartridge which can be found on page 33. I cut it at 1.5" on one birdhouse and 1.75" on the other birdhouse.

The piece around the peg is from the Storybook cartridge. It is the frame on page 58. I cut it at 1" for both birdhouses.

Then for the trim on the roof I used the exclamation point on the Storybook cartridge which can be found on 62. I cut it at 3.5" for one birdhouse and 4" for the other birdhouse.

I painted the birdhouse white before I decoupage the picture and paper to the birdhouse. I used two wallet size pictures for the roof of the birdhouse and a 4x6 picture for the back. I did not get the picture on the back cut quite right but my youngest is so cute (well all my kids are cute) it makes up for it :)

Here are some more pictures of the birdhouses.

Jelly Jar-simple

Ok time has finally caught up to me and I'm way behind on gifts. Last night I made 13 jars of cranberry jelly for teacher gifts this year. (Making jelly is not as hard as some people think). Well since these need to be done tomorrow and I have housework to catch up on and a Christmas Party tonight I'm just keeping them simple.

I cut a 2.5 inch circle out of Christmas pattern paper using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge and put the circle under the jar lid.

Then I cut a tag using the tag feature on Joys of the Season cartridge. I used the star on page 53. I cut the tag at 2.25 inches using a burgundy cardstock. I also cut 2 base tags using a cream color cardstock.

The first base I rubbed on some boss gloss embossing ink from Stamp-n-Stuff on the first base tag then sprinkled on some jeweled gold embossing powder from Stamp-n-Stuff.

Then I layered the burgundy tag on the embossed tag and layered that on the 2nd foundation tag to hide the ink that leaks through the back. I don't have time to mess with it :)

I put an eyelet through the tag and just tied it on the jar using some ribbon that I found in my Christmas boxes. So 1 down 12 more to go :)

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