A place to BE HAPPY!...: Teacher Tote

Monday, May 18, 2009

Teacher Tote

I've been looking for these totes in order to vinyl them. I found them at my Dollar store and bought them all! These bags are a great size and measure 18 inches wide by 13 inches high, with generous handles and a flat bottom. It is a PVC type bag, not fabric. I just used regular outdoor vinyl. Used SCAL for the paw and the font LD Susie for the words. I'm going to make these for end of the year teacher gifts.

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4 comments:

MikesDork said...: very cute! I guess I will have to be heading to my dollar store!; May 18, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Anonymous said...: Your work is amazing, you have awesome talent! I too am counting the minutes until I can go to the dollar store!!; May 22, 2009 at 8:05 AM
Anonymous said...: I love your stuff!! I have just bought the cricut expressions and scal and would like to do some things with vinyl. I saw the company you recommend, they seem very reasonable. I wondered if you could give me an idea on what size of vinyl and transfer tape you keep on hand. I'm sure you have several sizes. I will be doing some things for walls, but most little things like cards and bags.
Thanks for your ideas!!; June 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM
the Gray family said...: thank you so much for your blog. I love all your great ideas. I was wondering what dollar store you got the bags at? thanks for your inspiration!; July 9, 2009 at 1:28 AM

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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.

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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.