Craft With Me!

  Come Craft Cricut Pop Up Cards with ME! I recently bought myself a Cricut Maker for Christmas. After being married for 28 years we just kinda buy our own Christmas presents.  When I started my crafting, years ago, Cricut came out with their first machine.  It seemed so awesome to be able to cut anything in any size.  My husband found it for a good deal and I got it for Christmas 2007.  I loved it! I still used it up till around 9 years ago when I upgraded to a Cameo.  I am still a Cameo girl but as I check out the Cricut stuff these days, I am impressed with how far they have come.  I pay 9.99 a month for Cricut access which allows me to use their font and image library.  If you do not have this access the cards are around 2.00 each to download and use indefinitely.   I was recently at a crop and a new friend made a 3d card, (hers was a unicorn) and she made this 3d card so easily.  It was so adorable!  I was impressed so I had to try it out myself.   Cricut has directions on their c

 Come and learn about my favorite tools for using a Cricut or Cameo machine!   Hello!  I decided it would be a great idea to show you the tools I use for my Cameo and Cricut machines.  I really enjoy using these machines and both brands are really great machines. I've tested branded items and the off brand items and these are my favorites! We are going over the following categories: Weeding & Vinyl Pin Pen Tool Tweezers Dental Tools Scrap holder Brayer Scraper Spatula Cricut True Control Knife Cutting mats Cricut Silhouette Off-Brand (Monicut HTVront Nicapa) Dollar Tree Mat Heat Presses Cricut Hat Press Cricut Mug Press Cricut Press Mini Cricut Easy Press 2 (9x9) Cricut Easy Press 2 (12x10) Fancier Studio 15x15 Digital Heat Press Cricut Joy Specific Tools Crafters Square adhesive cutting mat 4.5x6.5 in Crafters Square insert cards Transfer Tape Dollar Tree Contact Paper Amazon JandJpackaging transfer tape It can get super confusing when you are starting up and I am sure there a

 Come and sublimate on wood with me I bought a cup sublimation kit that included some heat transfer coating in it and I use sublimation products often so I had not tried it as a treatment.  I also heard you can sublimate on wood with Polycrylic finish too. I decided it was time to try it out.  I have 3 wood pcs from the dollar tree, they are all similar and they are all unfinished.  I wanted to try the following types of finish to see how the sublimation would work. Polycrylic finish Polycrylic finish diluted with water in a spray bottle We R Memory Keepers Heat Transfer Coating No Treatment First I had to treat the wood with the coating. We R Memory Keepers  I did 2 coats and let it dry completely before adding the 2nd coat.  I pressed these all at 280 for 60 seconds with a cricut EZ press.  I think they all would have come out better if I had not used the EZ press pad underneath.  I think they needed a hard base underneath them and no cushion.  The cushion seemed to allow for ghostin

Come make an embroidered quilt square with me  My family makes quilts for the new babies.  My cousin Shirley and my late Aunt Maddie would send out quilt squares to our family members and ask them to embroidery something on a square of quilted fabric and put their sur names on it, then mail it back to them.  They would then put the squares together to make a beautiful quilt for the baby.  My daughter received one when she was a baby and it was the most wonderful gift.  She still has it (at almost 26 years old) and knows that her family loves her very much.  I wish more people had participated on my husbands side of the family, however, its still a very special gift and she and I will cherish it forever.  One day I hope that she has a child of her own and I will continue the tradition, as well as, use this quilt on her child.  (if she chooses) Below is a picture of my daughters quilt.  Shirley and Aunt Maddie even made a few squares for family members that were no longer with us and mad

Come and water color with me!  So, I've been watching Andrea.Nelson.art on TikTok forever and she makes everything look so EASY!  Follow her if you get a chance, she does some really fun water colors and has really cute ideas. I decided I was going to paint a bus with water color.  It is not that great but I'm glad it looks like a bus. Supplies: Watercolor Paper Watercolors-I used CTMH Paint Brushes water bottle Paper towels Painters tape to tape off your paper Printer Pencil Okay, here goes nothing!  I have never water colored in my life so I knew this wouldn't be my best work.  I really wanted to try this out.   I covered the edges of my water color paper with painters tape to leave a boarder.  I've seen people do this so I just did it. Spray your water colors with water from your water bottle before you get started so that your paints are ready to use. I printed a pic of a bus.  I then flipped the print over and covered it with pencil. I traced along the image so tha