It's Offical....I am the Queen!

In STL every good West County girl has her initials on her back window. I had a simple monogram on my window for about a year but it was looking shabby and I knew I wanted to redo it. I purchased last Christmas at Target silver contact paper (on sale! SCORE!)

You cannot tell but there is black vinyl behind the silver crown. The crown is from Home Decor and my monogram is from Lyrical Letter. I altered the crown by stretching it some to make it fit my monogram more. If you would like the cut file you can go this CAR DEAL I do have my monogram in the .cut file so you can use the size to.

Personalized Pumpkin

I have done it I have fallen into the Halloween decorating trap. I personally do not like Halloween and count the days until it is over. The scary movies, I hate, the ghost and everything it involves totally creeps me out, but there are so many cutesy thing that go along with Halloween, and it is the biggest decorating holiday next to Christmas. Last year I bought some of those plastic pumpkins and sprayed them gold, I really didn't like them so I sprayed one of the larger pumpkins white and used my trusty Cricut vinyl to put our family name on it, my girlfriend, Alana thought it was cute. She has good taste.
I used the Calligraphy Collection Cartridge and Lyrical Letter for the spider. Who knew Lyrical Letter would have a scary spider on it. I welded it all together but I forgot that I don't like doing that. It is much easier to place the vinyl on the project one letter at a time if you don't use the transfer tape. Which I don't because I am cheap. (There I said it, most people who know me already knew it)

Here is the grouping I did with the other pumpkin I sprayed last year.  Now that I look at the photo I probably should of placed it down more on the pumpkin but because it was one piece where it feel is where it stuck, (another reason not to weld) I hope this inspires you to create you own personalized pumpkin. (Thank goodness the table isn't dusty)

Wedding Plate

This is a shower present I made for a good friend of mine future daughter-in-law and son. At Christmas I purchased some charger plates at Wal*Mart in gold and silver. I used black Wall-Pops for the vinyl and the cricut cartriges that were used were Calligraphy Collection and Storybook for my favorite flourishes. I imagine I probably spent $2.00 making this gift but it looks way more expensive.

It was the hit of the shower too.