Baseball Photo Decor with Square 1

I have been playing with Square 1 Masterpiece Repositionable Adhesive Fabric and I have to say - this is by far my favorite project I have made!!!!

I bought these canvases LAST summer to make something for my cousin's wedding.  She never got me the photos I asked for so it just sat and sat and waited for a different opportunity.

I don't have the exact project so show you but here are two similar ones I found on Pinterest:

 

Take the wedding photos from the left and put them on the canvas and add wedding words - that was my original project.

Being a baseball mom, it just hit me to create a baseball canvas.  I did not want to mod podge photos onto the 4x4 canvases, so I just copied them onto the repositionable fabric on my copy machine/printer!!

This stuff is amazing and the best part is - as Tanner grows I can replace the photos!!!

If you want to find out more information on this product, just go HERE.  It is on sale through Sunday, June 30 2013!!!

I trimmed three of the photos to 4x4.  The last photo I kept 4x6 because it was going in a scrapbook page.

I trimmed the photos and put them on the canvas pieces.

You just peel them off the backing like a sticker!  If they go on crooked - no worries!!!  You just try again!

You can see I was stuck on the vertical positioning at first.

I came up with my own baseball sayings and they were not fitting in the space, so I turned it horizontal.

I used my gypsy and MyCutSearch.com to find all my fonts!!

I use MyCutSearch all the time to find images on cricut cartridges.  I did not know how to search fonts until I asked.  I wanted to share what I learned with you - so HERE are the directions with photos!!

I used:

 Hannah Montana, Hello Kitty Font, MS Seasonal Art Cake, Base Camp, Artiste, Craft Room Basics, and Nate's ABC's

I cut the words out in vinyl and transferred them to the top half of the canvas.

I adhered black ribbon around the edges of the canvas.

I used washi tape, a ruler and my 12x24 cricut mat to space my small canvases on the bottom half.

I love that washi tape doesn't stick too well for this project!!

I used hot glue to adhere them down and peeled the washi tape off.

Here is a side view so you can see the dimension.  I originally covered the small canvases with ribbon, but did not like the gaps it had - so I took it off.

Tanner played his first season of select baseball this year and we are coming up on our state tournament.  I am very proud of him!!  He is 7 on an 8 year old team.  He has been watching his brothers play baseball his entire life and now is his turn!!!

I purchased frames with special mats for his brothers several years ago and can not find anything similar now.  I have to say, I like this one MUCH better than his brothers frames!!!

Elephant Gift Bag

This week at Frosted Designs, our theme is Give a Gift.  I used paper and a digi image from one of our sponsors - Cedar Chest Designs.

I printed out the elephant.  I was thinking it would look cute on a canvas but did not want to color the image in.  I printed out an 8x8 page in green with dots.  I am not super savy with digi images, so I put the elephant on my copy machine and ran the printed page through. 

I fussy cut the elephant out.  Later I learned how to size the images, but by then I really liked my polka dotted ellie!!!

I wanted to take the theme literally {Give a Gift} and thought about decorating a gift bag instead of making an actual gift.  I got a brown kraft gift bag and got started!

I needed some grass.  I found this grass border on Martha Stewart Season Art Cake.  I put three of them on my mat (sized to 1") and welded them together.

I cut the grass out in lime green cardstock.

I grabbed this K and Company paper from my stash and trimmed it to fit on the bag.  

I punched three circle "balloons" out of an old book page.  I inked them purple, green and pink.  I used my 5" Xyron to adhere them to my bag.

I used matching twine for the knot and balloon string.

I used a strip of tissue tape with birds on it from Michaels.

This bag would be perfect for a baby gift or a child's birthday gift!!

Be sure to join us at Frosted Designs with a Give a Gift item of your own!!

Teresa's First Blogaversary Blog Hop

Welcome to Teresa's First Blogaversary Blog Hop!

If you are looking for the All About Penguins Hop, please go HERE.

A little over a year ago, Teresa began her new blog to celebrate the fact that she wanted a change in her life.  And for that change to be permanent came lots of prayer and leaning on God to give the right answers.  The answers He needed to give, not the answers Teresa desired.  Well, here she is 1 year later and Teresa is a stay at home wife loving life and doing all she needs to do to create a warm, loving atmosphere for her family!

Teresa invited us to celebrate with her.  Here is a list of blogs in this hop.  If you found me first, please hop on over to Teresa so you don't miss anything!!

Here is a complete list of blogs in today's hop:

Teresa~ http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com/

An’Jenic~ http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

Lori ~ http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/****HERE

Anita - http://scrappyhappymommy.blogspot.ca***HERE

Sandy- http://scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com

Miranda - http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/

Sarah - http://itswhatkeepsmesane.blogspot.com/

Michele ~ http://michelescraftroom.blogspot.com/

Melissa ~ http://iamapapermaniac.blogspot.com

We are so glad you are here celebrating and hopping with us today.  Teresa asked us all to create something that represents a change in our life.  A big change happening in our family this year is our son Tyler will be graduating from high school and heading off to college.  Unlike his brother who went to college 45 minutes away, Tyler is likely going 3 1/2 hours away.  I am not looking forward to that part, but I am excited for the next chapter in his life to begin.

I have been scouring Pinterest for ideas for Graduation Party Decorations and I combined two subway art projects into one.

I started out with my Gypsy and several fonts to create this project.  On Layer 2, I put a rectangle sized to 8 1/2 x 11 so I knew how big to size the letters.

I used:

 Base Camp (Graduation sized to 1.35 inches)

Opposites Attract (Turn the Tassel sized to 1.24 inches)

Making the Grade (diploma sized to .92 inches)

Nate's ABCs (Success sized to .88 inches)

George (Cap and Gown sized to 1 inch)

Sophisticated (new chapter sized to 1 inch)

Varsity Letter (You Did It sized to 1.08 inches)

Gypsy Font (Class of sized to .88 inches)

Hannah Montana (2013 sized to 1.94 inches)

Nate's ABCs (Hats off sized to .88 inches - rotated 90 degrees)

I put blue vinyl on my mat and changed my settings on the cricut to 3-3-3 (speed, pressure and blade depth) for a kiss cut.

I have a flat canvas sized 9 x 12.  It is hard to see, but the vinyl is cut.  Now to get it onto the canvas. 

First, I use my cricut dental tool to weed off the extra vinyl.

Once I pulled off the extra vinyl, I went back to pull out the inside cuts.

I used transfer tape to pull the vinyl off of the paper backing.  I used my cricut scraper tool to burnish (rub) my vinyl. 

Oops - I was burnishing a little too hard and broke my cricut scraper tool!!  **Note - I have used the heck out of this tool for the past 6 years!!  Good thing I have a Pampered Chef scraper!!

I carefully pulled up the transfer tape.

I placed the transfer tape to my canvas and burnished the vinyl onto the canvas.

I carefully peeled the transfer tape off the canvas.

I had extra white space at the top, so I went back to the Gypsy....

I used the graduation cap from Martha Stewart Seasonal Art Cake cartridge and sized 7 of them to .80 inches.

This time I carefully pulled up the vinyl off the transfer tape so I could place the exactly where I wanted them.

I put a few caps on some of my letters.

Here is my canvas all ready to go for Graduation (sniff, sniff)!!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!!  Your next stop in the hop is the Amazing ANITA.

11th Day of Christmas (Frosted Designs Challenge)

On the 11th day of Christmas, my project gave to me ~ 11 Banner Flags!!!

I chose a non-traditional banner for this layout and had a lot of fun creating it!!  I challenge you to use a banner with 11 flags on your project - or as a project!!  You can use one banner or more with a total of 11 flags.  Banner flags can be made out of any shape so be sure to have fun!!

I chose to use banner flags shaped like ornaments, not the traditional flag shapes for this layout.  I was inspired by a layout I saw on Pinterest!

I cut this doily shape from CTMH Artiste sized to 6 inches.  I cut it out of maroon cardstock.

I used Peace from MS Seasonal Cake Art and sized it to 1.35 inches.  I cut it out of hunter green metallic paper.

I used a variety of cartridges and sizes to cut out ornaments.  I used CTMH Art Philosophy, Holiday Cakes, MS Seasonal Cakes, George (star) and (CCR)Teresa Collins - Christmas Ornaments.

The sizes range from 1 inch to 2.5 inches.

I cut the ornaments out of solid maroon or green cardstock and some Christmas paper.

I used some cuttlebug embossing folders to dry emboss some of the ornaments and the photo mat.

I inked the edges with Vintage Photo ink.  I ran the ink over the embossing too.

I used thin ribbon to string my banner together.

The yellow star was a little bright, so I inked it up to dull it down.

I used my new square punch from Epiphany Crafts to cut out this paper square.

I put the square in the coordinating charm and put a Bubble Cap on top.  I tied a ribbon on the top and added this charm to my layout.

When my youngest was born, I got a photo of my three boys' hands layered together....well, the baby was only 2 weeks old and would only make a fist.  He is grabbing my middle son's pinky in the first photo.  The boys wanted to re-do the photo when Tanner was older and this is the result.

My boys are now 22, 17 and 7 and this is one of my favorite pictures!!

Ironically, there is little "peace" when they are all here as they are typical boys :)

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to link up your project at Frosted Designs!!