I like to ride my bicycle

Hello everyone!!!!

Today I have a little something different that I tried.

In my header picture is a child shirt that I made

using glitter heat transfer vinyl. Yes so far it doesn't

sound to different I know but I did not use a cutting

machine (Scan N Cut, Cricut, etc.) to cut the bicycle

out. Can any of you guess how I cut out the bicycle?

Well if you haven't figured out let me tell you. I used

a die and ran it through my Big Shot. The die is a

Crafters Companion die that I bought at Tuesday

Morning.

You know us crafty people we always have these

crazy ideas and well this was one of them for me.

I wanted to see if I could actually get a die to cut

through heat transfer glitter vinyl. As many of you

know glitter vinyl is a bit thicker then regular vinyl.

Low and behold it worked. I did have to run it

through about four times to get it to cut clean

through. In some areas it did cut through the

carrier sheet. I had to be real careful when I weeded

it. In one case I did lose the carrier sheet on one

of the bicycles. Thankfully HTV glitter vinyl is

a little sturdier and I just made sure that I used

my Teflon sheet to protect it from damage when

heat pressing it.

It really is true we can learn something new every

now and then.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day!!!!

A Shirt for MOMs

Hello Everyone!!!!

Wow can you believe another post from me. Totally

amazing isn't it. Hahaha.

In the header picture is a t-shirt that my crafting

partner created.

Some time back I had let all of you know that I was

headed on a new venture of creating SVG cut files with

my crafting friend Sally. Here is one of those other life

changes that is happening in my life.

(Below is the shirt made in a different color)

I can't blame anyone but myself for this change. Last

year I wasn't really motivated to create like I normally

do. If I really would have paid attention I would have

realized that something physically was wrong with me.

To make a long story short I ended up having an emergency

appendectomy. It has taken me a little bit of time to get

back to normal which is what happens when we get older.

Sally is headed on a new venture so I do not know

if she will have the time to devote to our creating business

so I may be on this on my own. Time will only tell.

She has had to make decisions that are best for her

family and I totally understand. Hopefully in the next

couple of weeks I will be able to let you know more

about that.

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a great day!!!!

This little Piggy stayed home

Hello Everyone!!!

If you know me I have my hands in just about every

type of craft there is. Here are a couple of cards that

I created. In the header picture is my little pig card

that I made trying to stay in the Farmhouse style that

is the in thing right now. The pig stamp is from a

Stampendous set called On The Farm.

Below is another card that I made.

I created this card using an In'spire die from Spellbinders

called Howling that I bought at Tuesday Morning. Just so

that everyone knows the die is one piece so what you see

in my card is the yellow moon I did some creative die

cutting and piecing together to get it to look that way.

If you just cut the die out it would just cut the wolf with

the outline of the moon.

So because I have the Brother ScanNCut and I can design

anything I want I have been working on creating some

svg files that will help me downsize the amount of dies

that I own. I have been creating my own labels that I can

use with my stamps. I will be doing a destash video soon

so keep an eye out for that.

Thank you for stopping by.

Enjoy your day!!!!

Full days with Heat Transfer Vinyl

Hello everyone!

Well glad to be back. So many things are changing

in my life. My daughter and son-in-law will be having

a child in October. I will find myself with a full life

of creating and sewing. My daughter has a mile long

list of what this grandmother needs to make. LOL.

Well with being a crafting grandma here I had to make

my granddaughter Hazel her special Easter Bunny. I

went to my cutting machine and cut out her name and

heat pressed it to the bunny in the header picture.

Since I was playing with heat transfer vinyl and I

had a craft show that I did last weekend I went ahead

and created a few t-shirts to sell. I worked at creating

a unicorn was not real happy with the unicorns horn

so I will work on it a little bit more.

As I said life has brought some changes and one of the

changes is that my husband did a job change. It was a

very difficult decision because my husband really likes

his old boss but the work was just not there. My husband

was putting in about twenty- seven to thirty hours every

now and then some weeks he sat at home. It made it

very hard for us financially.

With our kids and grandkids not living so close to us we

decided that we had to make changes if we want to be

able to see them often. So here we go on another roller

coaster ride. Getting use to a different work schedule

and a different pay day schedule.

I to am making some changes to my Etsy shop and also

my YouTube channel.I will tell you a little more about

that in my next post.

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

Thank you for stopping by.