Kringle Reindeer Farm sign

Hello again!  It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone!  This month is a fun theme - It's The Name Game!  Make a project using something with the first letter of your first name or the last letter of your last name.  We have a great sponsor this month - 

Gecko Galz. 

I made this fun sign with a board from Hobby Lobby.  My Name Game uses are

S - square, sandpapering, smudging ink and stems   

I first painted the board using a mix of reds.  Barn red was a little too dark and apple red was too bright.  Mixed together they were perfect! I designed the image in Cricut Design Space and cut it with Heat Transfer Vinyl.  This was my first time trying HTV on wood.  I thought it would need extra pressure and time, but it didn't.  I overdid it and it discolored some letters, thus the ink smudging. But I love how it turned out, so it was ok! I used sandpaper around the edges and grooves in the board, them inked it.   

The sign was made to hang but I had decided I was going to make it a shelf sitter so I took off the twine and make sure the stems covered the holes.  After I got it all done I decided it could be used either way if I made sure the twine was in the back and knotted in the front.  The knots are hidden by the stems and the twine can just hang down the back if you use it on a shelf.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see you over at The Outlawz where we have seven different challenges to choose from!

I haven't entered any challenges in YEARS but think I'll try my hand again.  I'm entering this project in these challenges:

Creative Fingers - anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes with optional twist of ribbon

The Outlawz Festive Fridays - Christmas

Uh-Oh!! I'm late with this post!  It's time for a new challenge at The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone.  This month the optional theme is "It's a Digital World".

My project is a Christmas plaque with a digital Santa image. 

 I love the old fashioned Santa images!  

This plaque was one I picked up at a yard sale and gave it a white wash effect coat of paint. The little black tag and the phrase I cut with my Cricut. Then added a little greenery, berries and pinecones from my stash.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll join us over at The Outlawz!  We have new challenges almost every day of the week and the Card Free Zone is once a month.  See you there!

Hello again!  It's time for another challenge at The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone!  This time our optional theme is "World Photography Day", use a photo in your project. 

I went to my scrapbooks and pulled out a layout of one of my granddaughters on her school trip.  This girl is 24 now!  

This was a really fun layout to do with all the fun patterned paper and letters

My pictures are a little crooked, but I had to take them while sitting down as I'm still recovering from breaking my achilles tendon and unable to put weight on my foot.  Very unhandy!  

Thanks for stoppin by and please join in our challenge this month!

4th of July Old Red Truck

Hello and Happy Summer!  It's time for another challenge over at The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone.  This month our optional theme is "Travel".

I have this cute old red truck that I bought at a flea market and I decorate it for different seasons/holidays. So, of course, I fixed it up for a 4th of July "parade"!

I made the medallion cut, the star and the door sticker with Cricut images and attached an easy bow made from various ribbons. I didn't get a very good picture of the bow.  I'm a little bit handicapped right now.  

This image was a cut image, so I added a white offset and made it a print and cut sticker.    I hope you can enlarge the pictures enough to clearly see the designs.  

As for my "handicapped" comment, I popped my achilles tendon last week and am on crutches and a knee scooter.  I have "no weight bearing" orders and surgery coming up next week.  According to the doctor, after surgery I will still be on very strict non-weight bearing orders for about 3 months, then 3 months of a walking boot and PT.  I never dreamed this would be such a long recovery and I'm fairly house bound until fall.  But on a happier note, I discovered that I can get into my craft room and into my desk chair and roll myself around to almost all of my supplies!  
 

So anyway, I hope you will come join us over at The Outlawz for this challenge and many more!  Come check it out!

Scrap Block Repurposed

 

It's time for our monthly challenge over at The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone.  The theme for June is "You Can Quote Me."

I found several scrap blocks that I've used for snowmen this past winter (I'll have to get those posted eventually!)  But I also found some small ones that I thought could surely be used for something.  So this one I decorated for my husband and just set it beside his sink in the bathroom for him to find.  It made his smile!

I painted the block red, added some scraps of scrapbook paper, some Jolee's stickers.  I sanded and inked the edges of the papers before adding the stickers.  The heart is cut from Cricut kraftboard, painted red and a little accent with a white gel pen.  The quote is from the '70's song "Still The One".  Tim had been playing that song on his phone from his You Tube "playlist" so I thought it was perfect.  I cut it from a scrap of red vinyl.  

I hope you will join us over at The Outlawz.  At least stop in to see all the great inspiration by the design team!

May Outlawz Challenge

It's time for another challenge at The Outlawz Anything Goes In a Card Free Zone!  The optional theme for May is "Flowers" .  

I recently bought this frame at a yard sale and just knew it needed me to fix it up a little. lol

It was already painted white and distressed so that made it really easy.

I cut some hearts out of Cricut heavy chipboard and painted them.  For the biggest heart I cut "Family" in white vinyl.  The greenery and flowers came from Dollar Tree.

I added some pictures from Easter and hung it on the wall!  Super easy renovation!  

 Thanks for checking in and I really hope you will join us over at The Outlawz!  We have different several challenges you can join but we sure would like to see you in our Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone!  LOTS of inspiration there from the Design Team!

Good morning!  I had intended to post a couple more projects before now, but life got in the way.  So today I'm sharing my announcement that I had mentioned before.  I'm on the design team for The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone!  

I was on a team for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday group several years ago and just entered a phase of life where I had to give up all my design team positions.  Now I'm excited to be back!  These challenges post on the first Saturday each month and run for the rest of the month.  Challenges are always Anything Goes, with optional themes.  But please remember it is a card free zone.

For April, our optional theme is Numbers.  I made this little corner bookmark with cardstock scraps.  

Using my Cricut, I made two hexagon shapes and connected them with a small rectangle.  For the top piece I used a smaller hexagon with the print-then-cut feature.  I folded the whole thing and glued it on the right side and there you go.

Now in all honesty, this was supposed to be a magnetic fold over bookmark, but I found out that my magnets are pretty weak and won't hold through the paper.  Soooo, corner bookmark it is!

I hope you'll join us over at  The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone this month and I thank you for stopping by my blog! 
 

 

I'm Finally Back! And with an Easter Project!

 Wow!  It's been a LOOONG time since I've been here!  Life has been crazy busy, lots of changes and adjustments, but I'm ready to do some design team work again.  When it's all set up, I'll be able to announce it here.  

Meanwhile, here is a fun project I made for Easter!  

This is an old ceiling fan blade that is 17" long.  I used a sheet of scrapbook paper and modgepodge.  I put the paper on at an angle to cover as much of the blade as I could, then used a scrap of it to cover the bottom piece.  The seam showed more than I liked, so I added the plastic grass to disguise it.

Isn't this bunny a cutie?!?!  I made the base with circles and ovals.  The face, feet and ear outlines came from Cricut Design Space.  The hands I made with ovals welded together and then used the offset feature to make the outlines. 

I love making these bows!  Mainly because I struggle with a regular bow.  lol  But I'm still working on getting better at those!

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope to see you here much more often!  Don't forget, I have a big Design Team announcement coming!