A place to BE HAPPY!...: February 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009

No Soliciting Signs

Just a new set of signs I've made! Cut files are in the right hand column

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I've been making some new WELCOME signs. I think they would make great hostess gifts. I used the precut oval plaques form the Dollar Tree, covered them in vinyl and put my saying on. The cut files are in the right hand column. I put gromets in the pre cut holes and glued them in. They are hanging by leather cording.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

How to use transfer paper

There are always lots of question on how to use transfer paper with vinyl. I use cheap clear contact paper in place of the transfer paper, but it is the same method.

Once you cut the design you want, pull away only the vinyl you do NOT want to appear on your final project, leaving only your design on the vinyl backing paper. Then apply the sticky side of the contact paper (clear) to the colored side of the vinyl, rub each letter or image - using a credit card helps. Then peel the paper vinyl backing away from the contact paper. Your vinyl image will be stuck to the contact paper. Now place your vinyl image where you want it, rub the vinyl part once more and then gently peel away the contact paper and the image is where you want it. Hope this helps!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

A vinyled handbag?

Yup, I added a vinyl design to my microfiber purse - crazy huh!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Personalized Balloons

Hey check this out. I personalized balloons with vinyl. I just used the transfer paper method (I use contact paper for transfer paper). There are so many options for this. Great for schools and fundraisers - men, women and children! I put the letters on after the balloon was blown up.

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.