Anything But a Card Challenge at Bitten By the Bug 2

Good morning, it's time for another challenge at Bitten By the Bug 2 Anything But A Card.  I didn't have a problem with this challenge at all...I have been putting off some t-shirt projects, so the timing was great.  I created the first tee for a young family member.  If you follow my blog you would know I created the onesie for his new brother a couple of weeks ago.  I had to make a trip to Joann's for some new tees.  The better are stores are a bit further from my home (more selection).  It has taken me a couple of weeks to make the trip, but I waited until the perfect time!  Blank tees and vinyl were doorbusters this past weekend.

Here are both projects for the boys.  I used the FREE Cricut Basic Shape image for the word Brother and the Creative Memories Be Young font.  Now to get them in the mail!

Ingredients:

Mark Richards Iron On Black and White Vinyl

Creative Memories Be Young-Be Free Font (little)

Cricut Font and Basic Shapes (brother)

Gray Onesie

My second project was a tee for my husband. Frankly, I chose this image to challenge my weeding skills.  It wasn't too bad and it turned out great.  I used the new Cricut gray sport flex vinyl I bought at Joann's although it appears white in the photo.

A closer look at my weeding.

Ingredients:

Cricut Sport Flex Vinyl

Black Tee shirt

I hope I have inspired you to use your Cricut for something beside paper for this challenge. Don't forget to play along with us at Bitten By the Bug 2 for the next two weeks.

Thanks for stopping by 

Alicia

Little Brother~Family Tees for Craft Collabs

Hello, today I am participating in a Craft Collabs Event called C.A.S.E. the Creator.  I was partnered with Robert.  He can be found on social media at  instagram.com/jfamilycrafters, jfamilycrafters.com, and pinterest.com/jfamilycrafters.  Our task was to find inspiration from our partner's projects, select one and C.A.S.E.  If you aren't familiar with that term it stands for Copy and Share Everything.  Usually one allows for a little creative substitution since we may not have the exact products from which we are copying.  

Just from the name of Robert's artistic identity, J Family Crafters, one can conclude that family is the most important aspect of his life and crafting together creates more time to spend with his family.  While exploring his blog I discovered he has three daughters so this makes complete sense.  He shares their work as well as his own on his social media sites.  I took my cue from his Avenger's Endgame post.  I don't own any super hero cuts, but since this post was also about family bonding, I focused on that idea with my project.  Here is his project:

Here is my project.  I copied the gray and the familial bonding spirit of the project as  I didn't have any super hero cuts for my Cricut.  I used two different fonts to create the wording.  Brother is a freebie on Cricut Design Space as are many familial words.  The word little uses a Creative Memories font.

I hadn't made an iron-on project in a few months and it took me a few tries to get the vinyl cut deep enough.  I was using a brand I purchased at Tuesday Morning at a great price therefore, I can't be sure about the problem.  I ended up getting a great cut with the custom setting for glitter iron-on, however, as you can see this vinyl is clearly not glitter.  Maybe I just forget my setting from last go round. I need to create the Big Brother tee but I have to go buy the appropriate size tee.  I WILL remember the settings when I create that one.  You will have to stop back by to see how that one turns out.  

Ingredients:

Mark Richards Iron On Black and White Vinyl

Creative Memories Be Young-Be Free Font (little)

Cricut Font and Basic Shapes (brother)

Gray Onesie

Thanks for stopping by and be sure and visit Robert's site for lots of family fun and great crafting tips!

Alicia

Solstice Greetings! Cricut Iron-on Vinyl: Marshall's bibs and onesies

Hello and Solstice Greetings!  I would just like to put it out there, this baby boy should be born today!  Mom is a few centimeters dilated right now, so this could happen.  What a wonderful day to be born!  Unfortunately, I had a friend's father pass today and wouldn't that be perfect to have a birth to balance the day...and don't you know I have some friends who are marrying today.  What a great day even though it is raining buckets on this first day of summer in Cincinnati.  So here is what I made for the impending bundle of joy.

I finally tried my hand at using iron on vinyl.  I was looking on Amazon and Target at some adorable onesies but they were not going to arrive in time for the shower and so expensive.  I said to my self...I can do that!  Plus shopping for a project is fun!  I grabbed the Marshall Amplifier logo off the www, since that is his namesake.  I spent over an hour cleaning up the image and it is not perfect but very good.  The first item I tried were these non printed bibs that were part of the pack.

Then I progressed to onesies.  I wanted black since the Marshall logo is traditionally white but none of the places I went had them.  I have heard since Hobby Lobby sells black.  

Next I had this great idea to make mom and dad a shirt!  I added the 's in as similar a font I could find.  I used the Rock Princess font for mom and dad.

Here's the set.  The happy couple plan on taking their first family photo in these.

Here's a round up of everything that I made.  I only wasted a few inches of vinyl with mistakes.  Not too bad for my first time.  I forgot to use mirror image on a couple of cuts.

 Finally, after the shower I came home with one of their diaper bags, which I promptly personalized.  (The skull was already on the bag).

I am so happy for the couple but I really did not intend to make them cry.  I was telling someone the story and they said that just means it was a heartfelt gift.  I like giving those.  These are a couple of special young people.

Ingredients:

Mark Richards Iron On Vinyl

Cricut Rock Princess Boy Skull font

Cricut Quarter Note font

T shirts from Joann's

Gerber onesies

Chick pea bib set

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I hope you are inspired to try something new...and maybe get carried away with it!  

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2018/06/challenge-150-anything-but-card.html until 6/26x

http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2018/06/anything-goes.html until 6/27x

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2018/06/its-june-so-time-to-sparkle-n-sprinkle.html until 6/30x

http://daisychainchallenge.blogspot.com/2018/06/challenge-20-for-boysmen.html until 6/30x

UPDATE MARSHALL HAS BEEN BORN!  4:53 6/23/18 EVERYONE IS HAPPY AND HEALTHY

Alicia