A place to BE HAPPY!...: Some more wall plaques

Friday, January 23, 2009

Some more wall plaques

I really like making these wall plaques, they are so simple. They started with a dollar store unfinished pressboard pre-drilled plaque. I just convered it in vinyl and went at it! They are all done in SCAL.

~click on the picture for a better view~

11 comments:

Becky said...: These are so great! I'll have to ddo this for my boys room!!; January 23, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Paper Memories said...: these look great! Nice job; January 23, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Bram_fam said...: You did a beautiful job on all your wall plaques.; January 23, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Debbie Goforth said...: Hey, What are those on? I wanna make some!!!; January 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Robyn said...: These are fabulous!; January 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM
JeepinMaMa said...: These are so cool! I really need to start exploring vinal, I've never tried it yet.; January 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Bernadette said...: These are cute!!!; January 23, 2009 at 6:41 PM
all4sydney said...: These are great!!; January 23, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Anonymous said...: All your tiles are very nice. I was wondering what fonts you used for the tiles Love is in Everyday moments. And the tile with A Dream is a Wish your Heart makes. I have to make alot of tiles for center pieces for a wedding and those fonts looks like they would cut easy. Thank You Very Much.

Carolyn; January 27, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Tammy said...: I really like your plaques I think I need to try one now. Thanks for the inspiration.; February 2, 2009 at 3:35 AM
Just jamie said...: Hi!
I am BRAND spankin' new to Cricut. I have been researching and reading a lot and just came across your blog ...if I understand you correctly, you can use inkscape to CUT on cricut? Please direct me to your blog that explains this? Thank you so much and thanks for ALL your hard work on the blog..and off! :)
jamie
jlturrentine@gmail.com; February 13, 2009 at 4:25 PM

Have SCAL2? Trace any image with these easy steps...really it's easy!

Images with little detail work the best - images in silhouette form, just black on white.

1. download a picture on your computer - usually if you see an image you can right click right on top of the image with your mouse, and then choose "save" or "save as" rename it if necessary - you can find images on blogs (my blog here too), websites, all over. Put it in a folder on your computer where you can remember. The image should be in the form of a .jpg or .bmp. I have a separate folder for scal files (and then I categorize my images by category)...

2. open scal 2 (this only works in scal2, don't have scal2? click on the link below to get it...)

3. click on the tree symbol (looks like an apple tree) a the top of the screen

4. it will bring up a search box, now find the file you saved, by clicking BROWSE.

5. once you click it and click OK , it will appear right on the scal screen, you can size and change it as needed.

My favorite quotes

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.- Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and DO GOOD.
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or har dwork. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
"What would you do if you knew you would not fail?"
I'm not very religious, but I just like this...Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.