What's old is new Again...

Two years ago I blogged about Wordle.net. This is a great website where you can make your own word art, and this style of word art is so popular now. I love making cards from Wordle. They are so original and you can personalize them so well. Here are some cards I made with wordle.

How do you get your wordle creation to be on a card??? Once the wordle is done, I print it to my "cute PDF Writer" (it's a free application - cutepdf.com), which prints it to PDF format. Once I have it in PDF format, I then convert it to jpg format through this free converter(http://convert.neevia.com/pdfconvert/) . Once I have it in .jpg, I can do whatever I want with it, resize, etc...It's really not complicated...

Trays, Trays, Trays

I posted these on the message board, but wanted to share them here. I got a whole bunch of trays and chip n dip containers. The trays are great, and the perfect surface for vinyl. I want to sell them for kids too as snack trays or homework trays, or even to put on their dressers to keep things organized. I got them in lots of colors at the Christmas Tree Shop on clearance at about .50 each.

New Ts for my son

Here are some iron on vinyl t shirts for my son. He helped me design them. The dragon one is made with the glow in the dark iron on vinyl. The trumpet on the blue one is silver metallic iron on.

Halloween candy/cookie jar

I love Halloween so much, I just can't help myself and keep making Halloween stuff. I got a whole bunch of these plastic jars from a local dollar store. I just added vinyl words and hanging spiders and dots.

Some last minute cute Halloween graphics

Here are some last minute cute Halloween graphics. Have fun!

Weekly Dingbat - JI Pumpkins

Here's a cute dingbat alphabet in the shapes of pumpkins. It would be cute for cards, or any craft. The dingbat is called JI Pumpkins. You can find it here:

http://www.fontspace.com/category/pumpkin

Halloween- Life Is Good Style

Life is Good is offering some cute free printables. You can get them here:

http://www.lifeisgood.com/about/contest/

in PDF form, or I have converted them to .jpg if you want to cut them.

Make your own Magic Shell

Ok, this is kind of crafting...

Do you love Magic Shell, but think it is some weird scientific chemical reaction that can only be made in a factory. Well....I stumbled across this on the internet (but of course). This is how you make Magic Shell at home, and you can make any flavor, and experiment with adding different extracts and flavorings.
90 grams coconut oil
135 grams of chocolate

I found the coconut oil at my local grocery store in the organic foods section and I used just plain semi sweet chocolate chips

I have a food scale so I weighed the ingredients. I would guess its about 1/4 cup of oil and 1 cup of chocolate chips, but this is just a guess from sight. Just melt the 2 ingredients together in a pan on low, and you are done. This recipe makes 8 ounces, a perfect amount for a gift portion. Do not refrigerate, and shake before serving. It really is so good, and I can imagine some really good flavors - or using the white chocolate chips or the butterscotch chips too.

Bizarre huh?

It's time for an OCTOBER RAK

The winner is STACI #1:Congratulations!

In honor of the fight, I am offering an October RAK of Pink Ribbon items. I'm sure you know someone who would love these items, or get them for yourself and show your support. (If you don't know, a RAK is a Random Act of Kindness, a giveaway or an act, just because...). Just leave a comment on this post and I will pick a random number winner on 10/22. If you use an anonymous entry, please make sure to leave an email so I can contact you.

This gift includes socks, a lanyard, post it note, a pin, keychain, magnet and vinyl stickers.

Not my ideas, but cute...

Here is a cute idea from Parents.com. You can use regular vinyl on the clear cups before you put in greeen pudding or jello - how cute!

Here is a cute idea for a punch bowl too...

This is from Better Homes and Gardens

Getting Crafty with Fruit

Why not try Jack-O-Lantern oranges. Just cut and place regular vinyl right on the orange. Make lots of different faces and put them in a bowl! Or send them to the school party for the kiddies to take home. I used the font PUNKINHEADS to make the face.

A whole bunch of witches

Here are a bunch of witches great for cutting. Hopefully you can find one that suits your inner witch! (To get the graphics, right click on the one you want and "save as" - it will save as a JPG file and then you can trace it into SCAL. If you are not sure how to do that, directions are in the right hand column here of my blog.